News and notes: Jason, ComicMix, Moss
• Flog reports that "Low Moon," Jason's comic strip for the NY Times Magazine, will be collected next year.
• ICv2 talks to the ComicMix folks about the GNs they are selling at Baltimore,...
Newsy bits: Glidden, hirings, Dini, etc.
§ Sarah Glidden's HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS has been picked up by Vertigo, she reports on her blog:First, the most exciting news: I’ve just signed a contract with Vertigo,...
Marvel news and notes
Yesterday, we mentioned Marvel's alll-new webcomics. Now, Todd Allen suggests that Marvel's current hiring pattern reveals this initiative is going to get a lot bigger:
These positions tell us Marvel is looking at their...
MARS needs interns!
Actually, both The Beat and Publishers Weekly need interns!We mean it!The Beat is still looking for an intern who can help with all sorts of exciting stuff. This could be a virtual position. No...
The assistant editor’s life
Rich Johnston reports that associate editor Nachie Castro has left DC for a job at Disney. He has not left the band Skelter, however, and that's the good news everyone wanted to hear.
Castro's...
Quick hits
§ Revolving door: Rick Marshall has joined MTV's Splash page blog:
I’ll be joining the current editor, Casey Seijas, in helping to make this new spin-off from their already successful MTV Movies site an even...
Brian Cunningham out at Wizard
The grapevine is buzzing today with news that Executive Editor Brian Cunningham has been let go from his position at Wizard. Cunningham had been with the magazine since 1991 in one position or another,...
Changes at ComicMix?
On his blog, Rick Marshall notes he's no longer at ComicMix:
As some of you have already heard, ComicMix and I are parting ways.Despite some great accomplishments with the news element of ComicMix over the...
Comings and goings: Seijas, Palmer, etc.
§ Just another contender to the throne: Casey Seijas has left his position as associate editor at Vertigo to blog about comics at Splash Page, the new MTV comics blog. Kevin Melrose runs the...
Kirkman named Image partner
The New York Times once again scoops the big Comic-Con news: Robert Kirkman has been named an Image partner, the first new partner since the fabled original seven partners formed in the Days...
EW: Comic-Con preview issue — UPDATE
That's right, the premier magazine about entertainment has its first ever San Diego Comic-Con preview issues and the WATCHMEN get the cover treatment:
Over many months, and many meetings, Snyder persuaded Warner Bros. to abandon...
Morrissey joins Boom!
Another Boom! release so soon! And this one is a little cute, but we were happy to hear that at least one laid-off Tokyopop editor, Paul Morrissey (left), has found gainful employment at Boom!...
