Comic Books Comic-Con: The Graphic 9/11 Report By Neal on Jul. 24, 2006 - 9:00 AM Slate Gorton (left) is almost certainly the first former U.S. Senator to speak at the Comic-Con, but as one of the members of the independent commission that investigated the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentago ...
Comic Books Comic-Con: Multimedia Circus By Neal on Jul. 24, 2006 - 8:46 AM There were a lot of television crews out on the Comic-Con floor, and the guys from G4 were highly visible all weekend long. At one point, I spotted them at the DC Comics booth wrapping up an interview with Douglas Rushkoff, the cu ...
Revolving Door Canongate shakes things up By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 8:35 AM I loved how Publishers Marketplace described this particular news story: “news is slow, let’s write about Jamie!” even though it led me to believe initially that this would be yet another puff piece about his sor ...
Trends Gossip Lit doesn’t work outside of New York By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 7:54 AM Oddly enough, that isn’t the conclusion reached by the Wall Street Journal in crunching numbers comparing three recent releases – Bridget Harrison‘s memoir TABLOID LOVE and Deborah Schoeneman and Ian Spiegelman&# ...
Comic Books Comic-Con: Where Entertainment Converges By Neal on Jul. 24, 2006 - 7:13 AM To give you a sense of how far beyond comic books the San Diego Comic-Con has gotten, here’s a snapshot of Saturday’s schedule at the Warner Bros. booth. You can click to see it at a more legible size, but the highligh ...
Trends Repurposing classic fiction By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 6:37 AM The Observer’s Rachel Cooke comments on what’s become increasingly common for UK publishers to do: take classics like Jane Austen‘s body of work and repackage them with more contemporary covers to appeal to young ...
Publishing Comic-Con: Not Just for Comics Anymore By Neal on Jul. 21, 2006 - 12:05 PM Thursday was a busy day for Mysterious Galaxy co-owner and publicity manager Maryelizabeth Hart (left). In addition to celebrating the “book mitzvah” anniversary of San Diego’s mystery/sci-fi bookshop at Comic-Co ...
Comic Books Comic-Con: To Infinity and Beyond! By Neal on Jul. 21, 2006 - 11:43 AM The big event at Comic-Con yesterday was a conversation between Grant Morrison, one of the industry’s most popular writers, and spiritual/self-help guru Deepak Chopra about “the seven spiritual laws of superheroes.R ...
Comic Books Comic-Con: Tying Up Heroes’ Loose Ends By Neal on Jul. 21, 2006 - 11:19 AM At one of yesterday’s first Comic-Con panels, Win Eckert (left) was making a game effort to reconcile the story of Doc Savage’s later years as told in the DC Comics series of the late 1980s with the competing biographi ...
Publishing Is Borders ripe for a takeover? By Carmen on Jul. 21, 2006 - 10:06 AM At the buy-side equity site SeekingAlpha, a column submitted by Catablast Media suggests that very thing – and goes even further, saying that “further operational difficulties at Borders will drive interest in a possib ...