Apple didn’t announce this yesterday, as many people were expecting. If it had been, the comics industry as we know it would be completely changed in less than two weeks. On the other hand– Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, is also the largest shareholder of Disney. Which now owns Marvel. Which makes comics that would be…
It’s ironic that on a day that many people in the world are talking about the Beatles in one form or another, people in the comics industry are asking if Paul is dead. Certainly, you don’t see this amount of coverage of a man’s life until his funeral. It reminds one of Twain: “They say…
In a not-unexpected move, Warner Bros. has taken complete control of DC Comics, renaming the company DC Entertainment and promising to integrate the publishing house’s work into its existing divisions. President and publisher Paul Levitz, an employee of the company for nearly four decades, is relinquishing those roles and will go back to writing comic…
I’m a sucker for extra details like this, and ICv2 picked up a doozy: The Agreement and Plan of Merger for the Disney acquisition of Marvel was filed with the SEC late last week, and among the facts in the 56-page document was the news that there’s a $140 million termination fee under certain circumstances…
Since we haven’t picked on Disney in hours, and since we’ve heard people wondering if Disney is going to have trouble with potentially adult situations coming from Marvel, we’d just like to refresh people’s memory of the Disney character from the 90’s, Marsupalami… Don’t ask where the rest of his tail is, either.
The Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark may not be as dead as previously thought. According to a report in Variety, the rumor mill is spinning with word that the financially troubled production will resume production this week or maybe next, with at least some folks being called back to work. The production stalled…
Every year, Beloit College puts together a list of facts regarding the mindset of the class entering college this Fall—the Class of 2013. Their list, as always, is well worth a read, but this is ComicMix, and we’re here to talk about comics, by gum. So as we get ready to send them off to…
Well, if I’m reading these stock forms correctly, Avi Arad’s stock holdings jumped about $10 million dollars yesterday with the stock bump. And Issac Perlmutter’s stock holdings went up about $282 million, with his total holdings worth about $1,391,049,355. Put another way, when they say that Disney bought Marvel for four billion dollars, over a…
So Disney is buying Marvel. By now, that’s old news– in Internet terms, anyway. How big a deal was it? I don’t think Marvel sent out a single press package today hyping their comics. Usually, we get two or three of them a day. The Beat has an excellent roundup of what we do and…
In a case of incredibly lucky timing, Craig Yoe, the author of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster, The Art of Ditko, The Complete Milt Gross Comic Book Stories and Life Story, The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers, and The Great Anti-War Cartoons, has started blogging again on Super I.T.C.H. (International Team…
Inspired by a twitter from Brian Reed, and drawn (or at least posted) by petroglyf.
As you can imagine, the reactions on twitter have been flying since today’s announcement. Here are some of our favorites so far: Brian Reed has the quote for the win: “Face it, Tigger, you just hit the jackpot!” patrickkeller: Brian Michael Bendis is currently having giant, round mouse ears surgically attached to his head. Pinguino:…
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