Reaching New Customers; the Graphic Novel Business
August 21, 2005
In Part 2, we discuss the way Marvel approaches its mass market outlets as ways to reach new consumers, the relationship between movies and graphic novel sales, and Marvel's graphic novel share and investment in inventory.
On the Comics and Graphic Novel Market
August 21, 2005
In Part 1, we talk about the over-all market conditions for comics and graphic novels in comic stores, bookstores, mass merchants, and newsstand outlets.
Guy Delisle's 'Kim & Kim'
August 18, 2005
This week's issue of the New Yorker includes a one-page color comic by Guy Delisle, the creator of Pyongyang .
For a 'Performance-Capture' Adaptation
August 18, 2005
Robert Zemeckis has secured financing for an animated 'performance-capture' adaptation of Beowulf .
Special Cards Will Impact Online Characters
August 18, 2005
Upper Deck announced plans to create a trading card game based on the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.
In Baltimore and Fort Wayne
August 18, 2005
Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Game Distributors have released details on their 2005 Retailer Summits.
From November to March
August 18, 2005
The opening date for the Warner Bros.' V for Vendetta has been delayed from November 4th to March 17th.
One-Shot Box Set Out in Q1
August 18, 2005
Score Entertainment announced the acquisition of the rights to create a Fruits Basket Card Game .
Out in October From Rio Grande
August 17, 2005
Rio Grande Games plans Carcassonne: The River II .
Also in 'Sports Illustrated For Kids'
August 17, 2005
DC Comics, which has already published some 40 million Bionicles custom comic books, is now planning to include new Bionicles adventures as backup stories in a number of its kids' titles.
'Constantine' Slips to #2
August 17, 2005
Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy -- Director's Cut DVD debuted at number 23 on the VideoScan list of 'Top 50 DVD Sellers.'
With 'My Neighbor Totoro'
August 17, 2005
Buena Vista Home Entertainment announced the Spring 2006 release of two more Studio Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro .
