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Thursday Runaround – Money Makes The World Go Squiffy
CapWatch: The Daily Mail bring us shots of the slightly bpodgy Captain America stuntman in costume, with shield, on an Indian Army motorbike.
MoneyWatch: Glenn Haumann at ComicMix breaks down the cost of comics creation,
Five hundred dollars… Figure $100 for the writer, $150 for the penciller, $130 for the inker, $90 for the colorist, and $30 for the letterer. Those numbers go up and down depending on talent and publishers, but that's a nice round number for us to work with
Something ex-DC/Disney editor Heidi MacDonald backs up.
For those wondering, these are absolutely the economics of comics. Every time I get a job where I have to do a P&L this is the ballpark. In fact, by quoting them, I just put myself out of a few $100/hr consulting jobs.
Before pointing out how modern economies are affecting publishers such as the web-based Khepri Comics and stating;
Despite all the hopes, ultra small press distributors are having the same ups and downs as everyone else — on a micro scale. Bodega is on hiatus. Buenaventura is no more. On the other hand, AdHouse has a new distribution program and seems to be doing well. U.S.S. Catastrophe went away and came back. The stakes are small and people come and go.
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Mo'MoneyWatch: Online comic shop ZalDiva.com has just signed $250,000 in financing to expand the website to become a major portal to sell new and vintage Pop Culture collectibles, comic books and memorabilia.
ShooterWatch: Jim Shooter comes to town. As long as that town is Madison.
Throughout the past 20 years, Shooter has been involved with a number of projects, including a line of Internet comics. Most never saw the light of day, but it kept his name in play with other creators. Recently, he was approached by Mike Richardson, publisher of Dark Horse Comics, to revive (actually, re-revive) some of the titles that had been published by Valiant.
Shooter insists he is not repeating himself.
"Mike said to me that we shouldn't do these (characters) the same way I had done them before," Shooter says. "It made me rethink them. I went back to the source material, the original Gold Key stories. I updated them, but in some ways, I'm more faithful to the originals."
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The Self-Absorbing Man: The Last Moment in Time
This is it, folks, the day everyone has been waiting for: the last issue of One Moment in Time comes out today! In case you're still not convinced it's worth the trip to the comic shop, here's a small preview. Joe Quesada was kind enough to take the whole OMIT crew out to dinner last night, which was awesome. It was great to see everyone (especially since it seems like I only get to see my collaborators at conventions, despite the fact that we all live in New York)
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They say I am a work in progress. The fools.
Welcome to Season 2 – Four Colors – The Press Democrat – Santa Rosa, CA – Archive
When the New York Times has Joe Quesada a phone call away, its hard to compete. The Los Angeles Times has a blog about comics, on top of the fact that they are in the center of the Hollywood community that's putting together the various comic book movie franchises. Even Newsarama can get Grant Morrison to do an interview about "Batman, Inc."
Today Dark Horse announced the appointment of Kari Yadro to the newly created role of events and community manager. In the beginning, Dark Horse was built on the idea of creating an atmosphere that was friendly and accessible to both creators and fans. In 2010, Dark Horse has looked to continue this tradition with a heavy focus on the growing online social-networking channels. Looking forward to 2011, the company hopes to focus heavily on the growing comics community in Portland, Oregon, and the world at large, with more events and activities demonstrating leadership balanced with accessibility.
Dragon*Con 2010: Neal Adams interview
'm not a big Superman fan, although I think I can do a Superman story. Batman is not a superhero. Batman is you and me faced with a dangerous situation. And it really has to do with how he deals with it. And there's an awful lot of things that people as comic book artists and writers really don't go very near, that they don't deal with. But what if they had to?
Cultural Evolution. Through IP Theft.
You see the same trend in the Nolan "Batman" films. Did you ever watch the original (1966) Batman movie? It featured an exploding shark for example, hanging from a helicopter. Really. There's a reason nobody took another run at the character until 1989, and then it took a loopy guy like Tim Burton, and had Mr. Mom playing the lead. But whereas the original was really just an extra-long episode of the intentionally campy TV show, the Burton version pioneered a trademark of the modern superhero film: the backstory.
The resurrected heroes of the DC Universe continue to find their place in the post-Blackest Night universe in Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi's Brightest Day #7, the latest issue of DC Comics' biweekly event, giving the New York-based publisher the top spot on the comics sales chart in August 2010.
Top 100 Graphic Novels: August 2010
Bryan Lee O'Malley's story of a twentysomething slacker musician and his quest for love reached its climax in Oni Press' Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume of the Oni Press series on which Edgar Wright's film Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is based, was the best-selling graphic novel for the second month in a row, giving Oni Press the top spot on the Graphics Novel sales chart in August. In total, four volumes of the Scott Pilgrim series placed in the top ten, and all six ranked within the top fifteen.
Diamond Announces Top Products for August 2010
The resurrected heroes of the DC Universe continue to find their place in the post-Blackest Night universe in Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi's Brightest Day #7, the latest issue of DC Comics' biweekly event, giving the New York-based publisher the top spot on the comics sales chart in August 2010, based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops according to Diamond Comic Distributors.
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