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Changes coming for The Comics Journal?
Tom Spurgeon cites reports on rumors that Comics Comics will be taking over The Comics Journal “in some fashion” in the near future. This morning’s rumor cited here and here is that the Comics Comics team in some fashion will be taking over The Comics Journal, which would be awesome, would certainly fit the criteria [...]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2011, Section: Publishers, Comments: 2 Comments
Eddie Pittman’s “Red’s Planet” Joins Wishtales
I’ve mentioned before Eddie Pittman’s excellent web graphic novel Red’s Planet. This week Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden announced that Eddie has agreed to publish through their Wishtales publishing studio. From the press release: Pittman recently began publishing his all-ages science fiction graphic novel “Red’s Planet” online. Dell’Aringa and Ogden were immediately taken by his [...]
Posted on: Mar 4, 2010, Section: Graphic Novels, Publishers, web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
News briefs for October 27, 2009
Awards » The Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award Competition for 2009 is due November 12, 2009. Comic books » Joe Staton and his wife, children’s author Hilarie Staton, collaborated on Amy Goes Gluten Free a book on dealing with Celiac Disease. Comic strips » Brian Anderson, creator of Dog Eat Doug, gives us a peek [...]
Posted on: Oct 27, 2009, Section: Awards, Children's Books, Comic strips, Graphic Novels, Interviews, Publishers, Comments: 0 Comments
Market and economic good news from NY ComicCon
New York Comic Con was last weekend and Publisher’s Weekly has a couple of articles on what the Con might mean for the market and economy. Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald report that this year’s attendance was up from last with 77,000 attendees this weekend. Brigid Alverson reported that children’s comics and graphic novels, especially [...]
Posted on: Feb 11, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Gatherings, Graphic Novels, Publishers, web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Fantagraphics teams up with Diamond
Tom Spurgeon has an extensive write up and analysis on the announcement that Fantagraphics has signed a deal with Diamond Comic Distributors to be the exclusive distributor to the comics direct market. As for why Fantagraphics made this move, the fundamental reason is likely to be found in what they describe as the declining fortunes [...]
Posted on: May 19, 2008, Section: Books, Publishers, Comments: 2 Comments
