Netflix buying the rights to the Extreme Universe comics is the latest superhero acquisition for the streaming company, which also bought Mark Millar's
comic book publishing house Millarworld last year as a source of new adaptation material.
Not exact matches
It was a small
publishing house with which I'd signed a seven -
book contract years ago (among the worst decisions of my professional life) and shortly after I signed, the company began to specialize in
comic books and graphic novels and ignored the novel line.
Diamond
Book Distributors has extended its agreement with one of independent
comics» most respected and innovative
publishing houses, Oni Press.
In early 2015 the rights to the Star Wars
comic book series will be transferred to Disney, and they will
publish the
comics in -
house.
Many traditional
publishing imprints (like S&S and Random
House) are buying
comic books and positioning them like traditional
books (for lack of a better word).
The following publishers met with the Vice-President of the European Commission, Mrs Kroes to discuss the future of ebooks: Jesús Badenes, Planeta (Spain), Riccardo Cavallero, Mondadori (Italy), Barbara Jozwiak, PWN (Poland, Joachim Kaufmann, Carlsen (Germany), Richard Kitson, Hachette (United Kingdom), Alain Kouck, Editis (France), John Makinson, The Penguin Group (United Kingdom), Stefano Mauri, Mauri Spagnol (Italy), Sam Bruinsma, Brill (Netherlands), Hedwige Pasquet, Gallimard Jeunesse (France), Rüdiger Salat, Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe (Germany), Frank Sambeth Random
House (Germany) and Cristina Musinelli, Board member of the International Digital
Publishing Forum (IDPF) responsible for the ebook standard ePub, Ronald Schild, CEO of Libreka, a German collective initiative to facilitate e-commerce of ebooks and Régis Habert, Izneo, a
comic book portal.
The publisher plans a «heavy push» into print - on - demand via Amazon, including several
books of Charles Schulz's non-Peanuts cartoons, «Miss Caroline,» a
book of cartoons about a girl in the White
House, first
published in 1963; and «Jack Ooze,» a new
comic by Men in Black creator Lowell Cunningham.
On the eve of New York
Comic - Con / New York Anime Fest, Kodansha and Random
House (the parent company of Del Rey) have announced a major change: The Del Rey imprint will disappear as a separate entity, and Kodansha will
publish its own
books in the U.S., rather than licensing them.