Sentences with phrase «on the comics industry»

-- Alan Moore, in a lengthy interview on Bleeding Cool about Watchmen, any potential sequels to it and his thoughts on the comic industry

«I've been doing a lot of research on the comics industry, and it's apparent to me that over the past decade or so, the industry has done everything it possibly can to keep people from being successful.

CB then explained his perspective on the comics industry by discussing his background as a comics retailer and fan.

Not exact matches

Maybe some reviews are right about the fact that while Tropic Thunder claims to be a mocking look at the movie industry, it never touches upon the nitty - gritty of their gags (the actors, agents and producer are always comic book figures, rather than clever dissections of real - life counterparts), yet in never being anything less than entertaining, you never realise these problems until reflecting on the movie at a later date.

The site was the idea of Mario Francisco Robles, a man with his finger on the pulse of the comic book movie industry, and Jon, a person who we aren't completely sure isn't a figment of Mario's imagination.

Today, during their industry panel at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, Funimation announced that they were working on an anime streaming...

During the last DC panel of Wondercon, the talk turned to illegal downloads, their ethics, popularity, and effect on the comic book industry.

I know we are reaching some consumers who have never bought a comic before, but I think as an industry we need to do better on this end.

The 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented by Comic - Con International (Comic - Con ®) on Friday, July 22, at a gala ceremony at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego.

Some bits worked better than others and humour that pokes fun at the comic industry can be a bit hit and miss depending on your levels of inner geekness regarding comics that often date back to before some of the readership was born.

A Tokyo - based manga creators» group, Manga Japan, has expressed concern that the comic book industry may eventually perish if manga piracy continues unabated on the web.

This kind of swagger is characteristic of Marvel, the long - time industry sales leader with an ironclad grip on the young male Wednesday comic - shop superhero audience.

Some people say that the comics industry runs on legacy characters.

On Friday, July 10, 2015, the Wil Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced during San Diego Comic Con.

On Wednesday Erik Larsen, the creator of Savage Dragon and co-founder of Image Comics, began a conversation about the comics industry with a series of four tweets.

Dramacon was nominated for a 2007 Eisner Award, a major award for the comics industry, and Warriors debuted at number 74 on the USA Today Top 150 bestseller list upon its debut in May 2007, the highest charting position for a OEL manga title to date.

«I've said this before, and believe it strongly, the ability to appear on air to bring these great comics to a large audience helps grow the industry one reader at a time.

Read on for an in - depth look at the origins of Darby Pop, the trials and tribulations of the comic industry, and a glimpse into the life of Jeff Kline.

Perhaps there's some bias on my part as the editor of an indie comics blog, but I would argue that, more often than not, that's where true innovation in this industry tends to originate, amongst the artists who are not constrained by the wants, desires, and politics of large corporations.

Diamond Comics Distributors has released its annual 2012 report on the market leaders in the comic book industry.

«Through MangaMagazine.net and our InkBlazers app, we are shaking up the publishing industry and helping fans explore countless new web comics and manga from some of the most talented artists on the Web.»

The book is packed with such rich detail: on the prison system, comic books, the music industry.

The new comic book industry sales data is primarily due to the combined work of pop culture trade news website ICv2.com, headed by Milton Griepp, whose annual White Paper on the comics and graphic novels sales, is a standard on sales reporting in the comics industry; and Comichron, a longtime repository of comics sales data.

Amazon is hoping to capitalize on digital comic industry by purchasing the biggest distribution company, Comixology.

San Francisco, CA, April 8, 2011 — VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, announced today that two of its manga titles and one creator have been nominated in several categories for the 2011 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards for a total of 4 nominations, as announced by Comic - Con International on April industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, announced today that two of its manga titles and one creator have been nominated in several categories for the 2011 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards for a total of 4 nominations, as announced by Comic - Con International on April Industry Awards for a total of 4 nominations, as announced by Comic - Con International on April 7, 2011.

Awards were given out to a variety of comic industry professionals, most of which were on hand to accept the awards.

«What a lot of other people were doing was to take the venerable old horse of the comics industry and putting it on a skateboard and calling it motion comics,» Gibbons said.

Reader and industry response to the article was so big, we've decided to spotlight an additional three applications for the device Time Magazine called the invention of the year, each one offering comics fans a unique experience on the iPhone (or iPod touch).

That's why, as comics - industry executives talk on stage about using digital comics to hook people into buying print, I get the distinct impression that they're just trying not to spook the comic retailers who are responsible for a huge percentage of their revenues.

But the comics industry seems convinced (or at least quite hopeful) that the coming digital comic revolution, in which devices such as the iPad eliminate the need for reading printed media, will end up driving readers into comic - book stores in search for the good stuff — on paper.

As I heard from more than one industry person over the course of my two days in San Diego, the industry's reliance on comic - book retailers prevented any national ad campaigns.

San Francisco, CA, April 4, 2012 — VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, has announced that two of its critically acclaimed manga (graphic novel) series have been nominated for the 2012 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, as announced by Comic - Con International on April 4, 2012.

On Friday night, the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were held during a gala ceremony at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Priding itself on producing entertainment properties of the highest quality visual and storytelling elements, Aspen MLT, Inc. quickly carved its mark on the comic book industry.

The world's largest children's publisher has also become known as one of the top industry leaders in children's digital content, and on the same day that Pocket God released its free comics, Scholastic announced its partnership with LeapFrog to bring the award - winning and bestselling Magic School Bus series to LeapPad and Leapster Explorer devices.

Marvel Comics appearing on the Madefire platform adds to the already impressive 30,000 comics, graphic novels and Motion Books available today, published by the best creators and publishers in the industry.

So keep drinking the kool - aid and be thankful that Hollywood now owns Marvel and DC, as without Warner and Disney controling DC and Marvel we would find the comic book industry on life support.

On the positive side, all those people who were drawn into the comic shops by the New 52 are buying Walking Dead, Saga and a bunch of other creator - owned books, and the «long tail» is getting longer every month, which is great for the industry.

Debbie Ridpath Ohi shares original comics, interviews with industry experts, and advice on telling unique stories.

Boycotts of Antarctic were announced, retailers said they'd refuse to order the book, and many a comics industry pro wrote diatribes on Twitter and Facebook deriding the decision.

The nominees will then be voted on by professionals in the comic book industry, and the results will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on Friday, July 20 at Comic - Con in San Dcomic book industry, and the results will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on Friday, July 20 at Comic - Con in San DComic - Con in San Diego.

Since the news of Dillon's death broke today (October 22), several key names in the comics industry have joined Dillon's many fans in paying tribute to the artist on Twitter.

Ultimately, Ape Entertainment is on a mission to increase the awareness and reach of the comic book industry as a whole; while acknowledging that part of that potential audience is looking for titles like their previous work on Pocket God, there is still a growing segment who will actively seek out the dynamic possibilities of comics that can teach through these widely recognized playful monsters.

Eric Powell, Sam Humphries, Stan Sakai and Geof Darrow were just some of the creators headlining Dark Horse's panel on creator - owned comics, discussing upcoming projects and their importance to the industry as a whole.

I also talked a little about how the comics industry just needs to get it over with and cheat on retailers with digital comics already.

The plan to launch JManga.com was also announced at a JManga panel and industry release reception held at Comic - Con International San Diego on July 22nd 2011.

Prognostication II: Ben Gilbert, on the other hand, begs to differ; he buys the first issue of a comic digitally to sample it, then waits to buy the trade, and he doesn't see digital supplanting print anytime soon: «Frankly, I don't see anyone using ComiXology to download a month's worth of comics that they would normally buy at an LCS, mostly because that would take more memory than most people with Macs or personal computers would likely be willing to devote solely to comic storage and would destroy the idea of comics as collectibles, which is the lifeblood of the Direct Market and the convention industry.

Wilma and I read the same thing over and over again, both in the responses to our interview and just in general on social media: Stan is a really nice guy, one of the most highly regarded people working in the comics industry today, and Stan and Sharon were a really sweet couple.

Buying directly through comiXology on its website, though, circumvents that fee and theoretically means more money going directly into the comics industry.

News from New York started pouring out last week before New York Comic Con even started, as publishers got a jump - start on press releases leading into the show, and ICv2 «s Conference on Comics and Digital provided plenty of discussion points about the current and future state of the industry.