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Double Take To Launch 10 Ultimate Night Of The Living Dead Series At Once
Bill Jemas doesn't like to do things small… he also loves the word Ultimate His new publishing company, Double Take, is going to launch 10 new #1's for 10 new series all in the Ultimate Night Of The Living Dead universe at the same time Back in March they announced 3 of the series: Rise,[...]
When Grant Morrison Could Have Owned A Chunk Of Marvel…
As the Ultimate Universe comes to an end at Marvel Comics (possibly), the originator of the line, Bill Jemas, has been interviewed by Italian site Fumettologica, talking about his time with Marvel comics And his inability to keep Grant Morrison at Marvel on New X-Men, rather than moving to DC Comics for Batman. Marvel were rather keen to[...]
Bill Jemas Joins Take Two Interactive, To Start A "Graphic Fiction Imprint"
Photo by Luigi Novi He's back. Bill Jemas writes "Just a quick note to say that I've joined Take-Two Interactive Software to help start a graphic fiction imprint." Like it says in the headline. The once-publisher of Marvel Comics, Bill Jemas, who helped bring the company out of bankruptcy and who spearheaded a number of new directions, some that[...]
The Morning After The Night Before – Marvel Visits ComiXology's Offices
But it might have just been to arrange their inter-company baseball match on a whim. Marvel did not choose to comment, and ComiXology did not return emails. I'm told by one ex-Marvel source that a guided view system was invented for Marvel back in 2000-2001, by one John T Roberts for their dotComics line, spearheaded by Bill[...]
Bill Jemas - Luigi Novi
With Bill Jemas however, there's no problem, there is nothing you can say about him that he wouldn't clutch to his bosom with joy. Bill Jemas was a sports executive who was appointed as President by the Marvel board after the company went bankrupt in the late nineties His job, as he saw it, was to[...]
In One Week In Two Weeks – The Return Of Bill Jemas
Next week sees the arrival of quite a few new titles. Over at Dark Horse, we get Hellboy In Hell, Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer's House Of Fun. The DC New 52 Issue 15s start as well as Human Bomb #1 and another two Before Watchmen, Image launches Blackacre, I Love Trouble and The Legend Of Luther Strode,[...]
When Bill Jemas Met Paul Levitz At NYCC
Which included an aggressive media prescence spearheaded, publicly at least, by Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada. During that time a number of disparaging statements were made against DC Comics, alleging that the company, and Publisher and President Paul Levitz was responsible for mismanagement and not financially exploiting the success of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman[...]
Bill Jemas Launches Transverse Universe – And A New Way To Read Comics Online
We ran a story on Bill Jemas' new comic book Wake The F*ck Up, a couple of months ago Being published through his 10k imprint with Zenescope Press, it's a teenage version of Go The F*ck To Sleep, and even comes with its own video, narrated in a hip hop style by Kilgorian Tralfamadore. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFUeJWnt08g[/youtube] Not to[...]
Zenescope Picks Up Bill Jemas' Wake The F*** Up
Bleeding Cool reported on the new Bill Jemas-written-and-published graphic novella, Wake The F*** Up when it was solicited by Diamond at the beginning of the month A 48 page comic drawn by JJ Dzialowski and Cyril Saint-Blancat, for $2.99 coming out from his publisher 1ok. Except it isn't. I've just been informed it is now coming out[...]
Bill Jemas Returns To Comics With "Wake The F*** Up"
He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack…. Bill Jemas, the ex-publisher of Marvel Comics, who went to war with Avi Arad and lost, is back in comics No, not with 360ep No not with painting peace signs on naked women But with a new comic book, Wake The F*** Up, drawn by JJ Dzialowski and Cyril Saint-Blancat from his new publisher[...]
Bill Jemas Gets Into Bed With Wizard
Last seen retranslating the Bible and painting peace symbols onto the bodies of naked women, Bill Jemas used to be the President of Marvel Comics. He formed the Ultimate imprint, co-wrote Origins and in many ways helped bring Marvel back from the brink of bankruptcy, though he developed a reputation of micromanaging and enforcing tangential ideas[...]
Wizard's Fred Pierce And Marvel's Warren Simons Head Up Valiant Comics
The new Publisher of Valiant Comics is Fred Pierce, who used to be President and COO of Wizard Entertainment until 2008 and who was apparently on the management team for the original Valiant alongside Jim Shooter. And the new Executive Editor is Warren Simons, who used to edit The Invincible Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor, Daredevil, and[...]
Eight Years Later… Andi Watson And Tommy Ohtsuka's 15 Love
A comic book commissioned and championed by Bill Jemas, 15 Love is a mangaesque tennis/romance comic book by Andi Watson and Tommy Ohtsuka Not normal Marvel fare, in Bill Jemas' day that was the plan. Then it all went tits up for Bill The six issue comic was finished but never published. Eight years later, and with[...]
Bill Jemas Brings Peace To The World Through Images Of Naked Women
A number of people received the following e-mail this morninmg from ex-Publisher of Marvel Comics, multi-millionaire and head of 360EP, Bill Jemas He wrote: About You: If you are reading this, you have been receiving our PeacePaint newsletter and have not opted out of your subscription Thank You To stay in business, we need people like[...]