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Punisher and Daredevil editor Devin Lewis on his last day at Marvel after sixteen years... and the reaction from everyone
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The news comes after Marvel Comics also made similar layoffs I reached out to Mad Cave Studios for comment and Mark Irwin, President of Mad Cave Studios, former Editorial Director, Consumer Products at IDW, and graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art told Bleeding Cool, "These changes were necessary to ensure[...]
Comic book creator and cartoonist Ty Templeton posted the following news to social media, partially confirming last week's news, first reported by Bleeding Cool, that Marvel Comics Editor Devin Lewis was among the recent Disney layoffs at the company He posted "Marvel Editor Devin Lewis requested the lion's share of the Daily Bugle strips for[...]
Over the last couple of days, Bleeding Cool has repeatedly broken the news of specific layoffs at Marvel Comics, SVP David Gabriel, executive communications director Timothy Cheng and longstanding editors Lauren Bisom, Devin Lewis and Darren Shan, as a part of wider Disney layoffs. I took briefings from a number of industry figures, with widely different takes from "business as usual"[...]
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This morning, I posted that I had heard that David Gabriel, Senior Vice-President, Print, Sales & Marketing at Marvel Publishing Worldwide, had been laid off as part of the Disney reorganisation that has seen layoffs for over a thousand people I later confirmed that, but he is not alone in the Marvel Entertainment group who[...]
David Gabriel, Senior Vice President of Marvel Comics, has gone after 23 years. And there are more names to come...
Earlier today, I started to hear rumours that Marvel Comics had been hit hard by layoffs imposed from above Then the news went wide, and Ray Flook reported it for Bleeding Cool, that this was a Disney move, making around a thousand employees across its divisions redundant this week As new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro[...]
It follows similar recent layoffs from a number of other publishers, including Image Comics.
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Keith Davidsen, Marketing/Public Relations, Editorial, and Distribution at Mad Cave Studios, has updated his LinkedIn profile to say[...]
And for 6 and a half years before that, he was a Convention specialist for the Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, as well as for Fantasy Comics of Arizona.
This marks a third round of Boom Studios layoffs in less than twelve months, since the purchase by Penguin Random House, not including former EIC Matt Gagnon being[...]
Last week, I got word that there were a small number of layoffs made recently at Skybound Entertainment of The Walking Dead, Transformers and GI Joe comics fame. I was able to identify two, Director of Social Media Guillermo Cummings and Senior Social Media Manager Patrick Coyne. At the time, Shannon Meehan, Senior Public Relations Manager at Skybound, told me that[...]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on news of layoffs at Dark Horse Comics We mentioned two recent departures, editor Konner Knudsen and CFO Tom Weddle Since then, I have confirmed that Megan Walker, Associate Editor, has also been let go by Dark Horse Currently, Dark Horse is approaching around two hundred employees, and I understand that they have reduced by[...]
Drake Maverick is under WWE contract again, following last night's episode of NXT and the culmination of a weeks-long storyline based on the real-life layoffs of dozens of WWE talent as cost-cutting measures during the coronavirus pandemic Maverick lost the final match of the Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship tournament but was offered a new contract[...]
If Daybreak Games isn't headed toward a full studio closure yet, they're about on their way as the company has yet another round of layoffs this week The studio, previously known for H1Z1, and currently working on titles like DC Universe Online and Planetside, has been having trouble staying afloat in recent years In the[...]
Bad times continue for GameStop as the company announced this week they will be closing another 180-200 stores before the end of 2021.
A source close to Capcom reported to Kotaku that Capcom laid off around 50 people in their Vancouver studio, in a restructuring campaign that was meant to streamline the studio, but also reportedly cuts into the development of Dead Rising 5.
The studio announced today that they've begun laying off employees following the split.
The reason for the layoffs remains vague, with the studio only claiming, "we're sad that great talent and good friends will be leaving the studio."
The announcement came through Twitter, with the following message:
An update from the studio: pic.twitter.com/k0aoms5cOQ
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