Warmouth joins Devil’s Due
PR:
Devil's Due Publishing proudly announces the addition of Brian Warmoth to its Chicago office as the company's new Marketing Manager. In a year of major growth for DDP, Warmoth will handle marketing and publicity...
Neil Marks joins Virgin
Virgin Comics has a new marketing director:
Neil Marks has been named Marketing Director of Virgin Comics, it was announced today by Larry Lieberman, Virgin Comics' Chief Marketing Officer to whom he reports. In his...
Wizard promotes Sanchez
After a well publicized series of down sizings, Wizard has announced they are promoting Darren Sanchez to VP of Manufacturing where he'll oversee the production of the entire line of magazines
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Wizard updates: Felton gone, Silver not
ICv2 catches up with Gareb Shamus and sits down to ask him about recent personnel changes. . Shamus confirms the departure of associate publisher Rob Felton, but says that publisher Jim Silver has not...
Wizard changes
Wizard VP and Associate Publisher Rob Felton was found to be surplus to requirements yesterday. In addition, "Toy industry guru" and publisher Jim Silver very quietly gave notice over the last few...
Gorelick, Pellerito upped at Archie
Victor Gorelick has succeeded the late Richard Goldwater as Archie E-i-C, and Mike Pellerito has been upped to Managing Editor. PR below:
In the late 50's, Victor Gorelick, a graduate from The School of Industrial...
DC layoffs in book trade sales
Much chatter going around today of downsizing in DC's book trade sales division. We have some names but are waiting for more solid information. The move is not much of a surprise, since it...
Layoffs at ADV
ANN is reporting a new round of layoffs at anime company ADV, which just recently started getting back into the manga publishing game:
An A.D. Vision (ADV) representative has informed ANN that the company...
O'Reilly joins Platinum
In a somewhat unusual indie-to-indie hiring move, Arcana Studio's e-i-c Sean O'Reilly has moved over to Platinum to run their animation arm:
Platinum Studios, Inc., an entertainment company that controls one of the world’s largest...
Marder leaves McFarlane
A recent posting at Larry Marder's blog confirms what we'd been hearing on the grapevine: the forner Executive Director of Image and McFarlane Toys long time President has left the Mcfarlane fold:
I'm no longer...
Rotterdam joins DC
Quite a big hire at DC, as Steve Rotterdam is appointed Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing. Perusing the press release, Rotterdam comes more from a marketing/agency background rather than a bookselling and/or circulation...
Williams upped at NY Comic-Con
The New York Comic-Con announces its new point man, Jay Williams, and his email is in included -- so you people feel free to contact him. We're told he LOVES it.
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