Archie hits postage stamps in July
Man, he won’t even choose on a stamp, will he?
Archie is now part of the 2010 Stamp program from the US Postal Service. The stamps are expected to go on sale in July during the San Diego Comic-Con.
The Mix : What are people talking about today?
Disney/Marvel official, and Disney’s getting Stan Lee as well. Now what about the freelancers?
It’s official. Marvel Entertainment stockholders approved the company’s merger with Disney at a special meeting held last Thursday, December 31, 2009. Under the agreement, which is valued at an estimated $4.3 billion, Marvel becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney.
But in addition to acquiring Marvel, Disney also furthered its existing relationship with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment (Purveyors of Wonder) by taking a 10% equity stake in POW! for $2.5 million. Disney entered into a first look deal with POW! in 2007, and under the new deal includes enhanced rights to the creative output of POW! and certain exclusive consulting services.
The only hitch? Over the weekend, I was talking with a freelancer who was complaining about a recent job he did for a Disney subsidiary which still hadn’t paid him after many months, even after signing multi-page forms and four contracts, for what basically amounted to a lettering job.
One wonders what it’s going to be like for all the freelancers at Marvel who will suddenly find themselves thrust into Disney’s mammoth accounting system for dealing with outside vendors. If anybody has any experiences with the new regime, let us know.
Doctor Who’s new trailer
From Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool:
‘Captain America’: The Movie!
No, not the new one coming out in a few years– the 1990 one.
Starring Matt Salinger as Steve Rogers, we bring you this film as a reminder of how comic book movies used to be.
(Hat tip: David Gallaher.)
The Point Radio: ‘Torchwood’ To ‘Twilight’ – This Was 2009
2009 was a wide ride for pop culture, and we look back by talking to the people who were setting the pace. From Elizabeth Mitchell on LOST to Kristen Stewart on TWILIGHT – plus Russell T. Davies on death in TORCHWOOD, what the future holds for CHUCK and the cast of BEING HUMAN. It’s our Year Ender right here!
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Happy New Year!
It’s been a heck of a ride, hasn’t it?
Congratulations, we’re living in the future now.
(Incidentally, now that the old year is officially past, we’ll start doing those end-of-year/end-of-decade wrap ups, because we weren’t going to jump the gun. We have to have some rules around here, don’t we?)
So enjoy, have a happy, and don’t forget to watch 2010 on TCM later tonight.
And now it’s Sir Peter Jackson too…
It really is the year of the nerd, isn’t it?
Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the executive producer of District 9, as well as the upcoming Mortal
Engines,
The Adventures of Tintin, and The Hobbit, has been made a Knight Companion of New Zealand, which entitles him to the honorific “Sir”.
The award was given in recognition of Jackson’s efforts in jumpstarting the New Zealand film industry as well as for his artistic achievements.
Patrick Stewart to be knighted
Now when the crew of the Enterprise addresses him as Sir, they can really mean it.
Patrick Stewart is on the list of people to be knighted by H.R.M. Queen Elizabeth II this New Year’s Day, and in the U.K. will henceforth be known as Sir Patrick.
Stewart is known to comics fans for, among other things, playing Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also a fan of comics, having contributed an introduction to a Transmetropolitan collection, optioned the film rights, and having made his desire known to play the role of Spider Jerusalem in any screen adaptation of the property.
He is also a noted Shakespearean actor, having been a long-time member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently performing as Cladius opposite David Tennant’s Hamlet.
‘Lone Justice: Crash!’ wraps up today in a double-sized finale
It may be a skip week for the rest of the comics industry, but not here at ComicMix, where we bring you the conclusion of a story over a year in the telling!
Read the giant-sized finale of Lone Justice: Crash! by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley right now!
Or if you’re just joining us, start at the beginning!
And if you want to read it in paper, the first issue of Lone Justice will be coming out from IDW in February, followed by a trade paperback of the Harvey-nominated EZ Street in March!
Darth Vader opens the New York Stock Exchange
Missed this one last Tuesday: while everybody else in the world was being good while awaiting the arrival of jolly old St. Nick, the folks on Wall Street were taking a different tack…
Lord Vader had no comment on rumors that he was stepping down as CEO of Microsoft to take on a new position at Goldman Sachs, possibly due to impending litigation from News Corporation which claims he is an employee of their subsidiary 20th Century Fox and is still contractually obligated to them.
