Recession Watch: WB cuts, Top Cow cuts
• On Monday, Rich Johnston reported that Top Cow has laid off two of its top people, VP of Sales and Marketing Mel Caylo and VP of Editorial Rob Levin. We've received the email...
Pat Johnson takes over Pantheon
Following the layoff of Pantheon publisher Janice Goldklang last week, Random House's Knopf division has completed its reorganization, Jim Milliot reports. Pat Johnson, formerly head of Knopf, will add Pantheon to her duties, with...
More layoffs at Tokyopop
Eight more staffers, including editor Bryce Coleman, were laid off from Tokyopop this week, as confirmed by marketing director Marco Pavia. The other staff cuts were from around the company. The move came in...
Layoff watch: McFarlane Toys and more
We're hearing chatter about major layoffs at McFarlane Toys today, as many as a dozen people. More as it becomes available. Also, Anjali Singh, the editor who acquired PERSEPOLIS and EPILEPTIC for Pantheon before...
Comic book layoffs: Devils Due, Tokyopop
While the comics industry has thus ar been immune from the massive layoffs hitting the media sector, that could be changins. CBR reports that three staffers have been laid off at Devils Due:
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Vertical layoffs
As mentioned in "Lying in the Gutters" this week, Vertical, best known for its manga line of Tezuka releases, but also a publisher of translations of various literary Japanese works, has had several layoffs....
Loeb and Alexander out at Heroes
Plagued by falling ratings and fan gripes in its third season, Heroes has announced a top-level shakeup with co-exec producers Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander being removed:
Both scribe-producers had been with the show since...
Sad day in Nerdville: Tennant leaving DR WHO
In news that could probably best be described as a "when, not if" story, David Tennant announced that he will be leaving DR WHO after the last of the TV specials scheduled for 2009...
Yen Press moves to Orbit; Johnson leaves
Via PR from Hachette: Yen Press, the manga imprint led by Kurt Hassler and Rich Johnson, will be folded into a new publishing division, Orbit, which will include Yen and the existing SF line,...
Executive shuffle at DC
Observers who follow executive moves at the Big Two are buzzing this afternoon over word that James "Ski" Sokolowski is ankling DC for Marvel, where he'll take the position of COO. He was director...
COO Fred Pierce out at Wizard
Our email inbox is stuffed with word that Wizard COO Fred Pierce has been let go. Pierce was definitely the mover and shaker who ran Wizard's day-to-day business and was probably much more involved...
Goldstein joins IDW
Media veteran Greg Goldstein has joined IDW as Chief Operating Officer, according to a press release excerpted below:
“We are thrilled that Greg has joined our growing family,” said IDW CEO Ted Adams. “Greg’s...
