Archive for July, 2010
Newsweek Profiles Lily Renée
Pioneering comic book artist Lily Renée, who’s illustrations graced many Fiction House titles in the forties, has been profiled in Newseek magazine. One of very few women that made it above secretarial positions in the golden age era comic book field, Renée’s work is receiving attention thanks to Trina Robbins’ dogged detective work tracking the [...]
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Study Says iPad Owners “Selfish Elite”
The phenomenal sales of Apple’s iPad have not been generated by the usual early adaptors; the geeks. Instead the device has been embraced by a well healed class of consumers that marketing experts call the “Selfish Elite”. iPad Daily is reporting: Selfish Elite may have been an inflammatory choice of words, but this group of [...]
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Betty Does United
Iconic cartoon flapper, Betty Boop, is set to become the official fantasy cheerleader of the United Football League. The sexy character, owned by King Features, will be featured on team specific merchandise in 2010. In addition, an on-field walk-around mascot will appear at games. OSC is reporting: Betty Boop was introduced to UFL fans in [...]
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Injury To Eye Motif Livens Comic-Con Coverage
The Hollywood marketing machine ran full blast at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, but found itself upstaged this morning by a minor scuffle at a Resident Evil panel. CNN, LA TIMES, USA TODAY and dozens of other news sites led their Sunday Comic-Con coverage with a dodgey story involved a stabbing with an ink-pen. Some outlets [...]
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Comic-Con: “The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle”
Comics fans have been grousing for years that Hollywood has been taking over the San Diego Comic-Con to promote their superhero, fantasy and sci-fi franchises. But this year, the studios are marketing outside the genre box, offering up promotions of thrillers, comedies and television series. Some con goers and industry observers are calling it “a [...]
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Pow! and Boom! Announce Three New Series by Stan Lee
During a press conference at Comic-Con International today, POW! Entertainment and BOOM! Studios revealed the characters, series and creative teams for three superhero titles to be published by Stan Lee and BOOM! Studios this fall.
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Battleground Burbank
As San Diego welcomes throngs of comics and movie fans to the annual Comic-Con, the top dogs are still DC and Marvel who continue to duke it out in their never-ending battle for market share. But now the market is filmed franchises and the real decisions concerning these two quintessential New York City companies are [...]
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C.B. Cebulski Named Marvel’s Senior Vice President, Creator & Content Development
Marvel Worldwide, Inc announced today that it has promoted C.B. Cebulski to Senior Vice President, Creator & Content Development of Marvel Entertainment.
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Lady Death Returns With Free First Issue
Brian Pulido’s Lady Death rises from the grave again this October with a new, free first issue from new publisher Boundless Comics.
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Marvel Comics On-Sale 7/21/10
Here’s Marvel’s official list of comic books, collections and posters arriving in comic stores on July 21, 2010.
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