Are Sales Dropping?
Head over to Bleedin Cool to read a short article on Diamond's sales figures for the last financial year. This April, it is estimated that Diamond Comics Distributors sold 5,567,648 of the top 300 comic books to American comic stores. The previous April, it is estimated they sold 6,733,040 of the top 300 comic books. That’s ... Read More
Life Support: Change Through Art
Hey! Are you aged between 16 & 25? Are you affected in any way by the recession? Can you draw comics? Do you fancy winning £1000 and having your work displayed in the Design Museum? Well, head over to TheSite.org to read up on ... Read More
Comics for Windows Project
Thanks, DownTheTubes for the heads-up on this project; Window Works. Mantle Arts and North West Leicestershire District Council wish to appoint a number of artists, to create work to transform empty shops in the town centre of Coalville, N.W. Leicestershire. Each artwork will completely fill the window of a shop, ... Read MoreDownloading illegal comics
Flashback Universe writes up a fascinating article on the illegal comics download market. It looks like Longbox has a lot to live up to... Read More
Crisis Centre!
John Allison, who is best at drawing, (see above for tangible proof) catalogues his woes concerning the end of Scarygoround and what appears to be his gradual mental decline in the continuing 'Crisis Centre' in parts one, two, three, ... Read MoreTokyopop/Kodansha update
Brigid Alverson at Publishers Weekly updates us on the current state of affairs at Tokyopop following their recent split with Kodansha. Kasia Piekarz, marketing manager at Tokyopop remains upbeat: We have a real strong hold on the teen-girl shoujo market, and the majority of our sales are still driven by teens and older teens, ... Read MoreTokyopop lose Kodansha licences
Tokyopop announce; "The Japanese publisher Kodansha, from whom TOKYOPOP has licensed many terrific series over the years -- Chobits,Love Hina, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Rave Master, Initial D,Kindaichi, Life, GetBackers, and Love Attack, to name a few -- has decided to let all existing contracts with TOKYOPOP expire on all manga series that they have licensed to us. As a result, Kodansha will ... Read MoreCartoonist not fired
Although this may not appear to be news at first glance, a Pulitzer winning editorial cartoonist keeping his job is indeed big news in this particular economic climate. It appeared initially that Matt Davies, cartoonist for the Journal News, had been included in the newsroom's 25% staffing cut, but the Journal reversed ... Read MoreDC’s CEO, Paul Levitz">Interview with DC’s CEO, Paul Levitz
In one, two, three parts over at ICV2. Some of the opportunities that existed because there wasn’t enough interesting graphic novel material are going to fade really fast, in the same way that it did for the manga guys. You’re going to have a harder time selling generic ... DC’s CEO, Paul Levitz">Read More
