Newsarama acquired by Imaginova
Newsarama, the longtime champion of comics news sites, has been acquired by Imaginova, the home of several science-geek-centric sites such as LiveScience and Space.com. Newsarama itself has the story and press release:
And that’s really...
Platinum goes very very public
On Monday it was announed that Platinum Studios the nearly 10 year old publishing company that just began publishing about a year ago is going PUBLIC.
Platinum Studios Inc., a comic-book company with several...
DC Comics in distro pact with Random House
MEANWHILE, ever since Time Warner sold off its book biz to Hachette, people have been wondering who would be distributing DC's book line. Well wonder no more, the winner is book giant Random House:
Paul...
ADV and Geneon enter distro pact
PR:
Today ADV Films and Geneon Entertainment (USA) announced a new distribution agreement. From October 1st on, ADV Films will be Geneon Entertainment USA’s sole distributor. ADV Films will handle all sales and distribution duties...
IDT acquires controlling interest in IDW
And...the news just keeps coming, as multi pronged telecom IDT has acquired a controlling interest in comics publisher IDW. Some hint of this development was dropped recently when IDT VP Clifford Meth switched over...
Morning Briefing: Y, Hex, Watchmen, UGO, etc.
Just a few entertainment briefs as we deal with last minute stuff:
§ The Y THE LAST MAN movie has a writer and director, D.J. Caruso and Carl Ellsworth, whose previous credits include DISTURBIA. Caruso...
Japan embraces licensing
It's hard to believe that the land of the Rising Sun and Sanrio isn't licensing happy, but accoring to this article, it's just catching on -- internationally that is:
"America has been at the forefront...
LA Times guy is pretty gloomy on comics
An editor at the LA Times has a pretty Debbie Downer take on the current comics scene:
What's strange about this grim reprieve for the industry is that it is so hard to see in...
Didio: Comics industry is here to stay
Lynn Arave at the Deseret Morning News has a brief but somehow substantive interview with Dan Didio who assures us the comics industry isn't dying after all:
"I think it's transforming," Dan DiDio said in...
How not to be snotty
A few online pundits react to Alex DeCampi's potential career suicide the other day.
Steven Grant points out that public ridicule is not the best policy:
But, while we are a catty business, there are...
BREAKING: WORK FOR HIRE IS BAD!!!
Yet another squawk over Platinum and its long languishing library over at Comixpedia where Mike Strang pens a cautionary tale he'd like to call Never sign a Work For Hire contract with Platinum Studios!
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