CR Week In Review



Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, January 7 to January 13, 2006.

1. Marvel moves its toys from Toy Biz and Toy Biz Worldwide to Hasbro for a chunk of change, streamlining its operations as it gets into movies and ridding itself of the whiplash effect that a down period of toys can have after a down movie.

2. Industry veteran Bob Greenberger's firing by DC Comic in previoius week seeps into comics community consciousness. Reactions range from concern for Greenberger to noting the upswing in archival collection production that led to the error that immediately precipitated the firing to open wondering whether DC is a friendly place of employment for the older guard.

3. The Angouleme awards season heats up with the Prix du Public going to Les Mauvaises Gens. Will Angouleme be structurally ready and able to handle the crowds this year?

Winners of the Week
Those putting together a fund to support persecuted cartoonists in the Mideast and North Africa.

Losers of the Week
Companies that blame hostile market conditions or the Internet for their not being able to hold together an initial publishing plan for even a year.

Quote of the Week
"The sad fact is there are probably less than 50 stores that actually order at least one of every product we produce. That's out of the 3300 or so direct market stores out there."
-- Chris Pitzer of AdHouse on the current saturation of small publishers in the Direct Market.

Is this book from AdHouse out or not? You probably couldn't tell by going to your local comics shop. (Answer: it is.)
 
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