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January 11, 2016


A Few Comics Business Stories Worth Noting

* IDW has refocused its international licensing work into its own division, and they'll be taking on the occasional property that needs that service but isn't part of the wide-ranging IDW family. Thus, this first announcements focuses on North American perennial Archie and its various sub-licenses. IDW is one company as active in trying different models and different approaches on the business end of the thing as they are in locking down their creative content, so pretty much anything and everything they do in this area becomes worth studying.

Jeff Webber is set to run that division. His ink-heavy "Vice President of Digital Publishing & Business Development" business card will now be the equally ink-soaked "Vice President of Licensing, Digital & Subsidiary Rights." Congrats to him on the new gig.

* dominant comics distributor Diamond is expanding warehouse space and generally improving its technological capabilities at warehouses in New York and Mississippi. The one thing about this kind of news story is to note that the company in question is healthy enough to make these improvements, in this case likely due to cash flow engendered by an uptick in sales.

* D+Q has hired a new marketing assistant, Sruti Islam. From reading old postings, she's been there a while, but an introductory e-mail only went out in the new year. I want to say that Fantagraphics has added a third person to their core (day to day) marketing team, but I'm not finding it this morning.
 
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