While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for […]
Jim Romenesko reports over on Poynter an email from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth that they’ve returned to profitability in 2010. From that email: That said, we accomplished a tremendous amount last year and have strong results to show for it. I committed to Don and to the Board that we would return to profitability […]
The next Ice Age (Ice Age: Contintal Drift) movie is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. Here’s the animated short teaser now in theaters:
James Sturm, co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, was featured twice today. Tom Spurgeon posted an extensive interview with Jim about his work, the school, and his new book Market Day. Next the Star (Malaysia) features James in an article entitled: Getting to know cartoonist James Sturm – covers the same topics in a […]
Interesting exhibit running in Boston entitled, “All Works Guaranteed Stolen” showcases “work that ranges from clever takeoffs and pastiches of existing art and entertainment to pieces that merely mimic, modify, or even just physically enlarge their source material.” “The right of artists to use the pieces of their society in their art is being significantly […]
I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson: Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others […]
I’ve written about the troubles of the Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man before. It’s now fodder for The Onion. A quote from their article: Spider-Man is supposed to swing down to the stage and deactivate a nuclear bomb, but his wires got tangled up, and by the time he got there and remembered the disarm code, […]