News I Don’t Quite Understand



* I am so completely out of my depth analyzing this ActuaBD.com article by Didier Pasmonik, as I have no real knowledge of major European industry players, and it seems that more than half of the piece is given over to potential implications and the like without making some basics clear. It's worth noting, however, that what seems to have happened is that Egmont Media has purchased assets of Bonnier which will make for a new, consolidated publishing platform in countries like Denmark and Norway. This is odd in that Egmont and Bonnier (through Carlsen) were the twin forces that dominated comics early on in the development of the modern comics industries in that part of Europe, it's contextually worth noting because of the massive activity by big companies in European publishing generally, and it really is worth talking about in terms of potential trends, because if this move proves successful other countries could see similar deals being made.

That's my story, anyway, and I'm sticking to it until someone .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), which should be pretty quickly.

UPDATED (ONE HOUR LATER): Thomas Thorhauge explains the implications in full at Metabunker. Looks like I scored Hunch 10, Details 3.

* I'm also not quite grasping the nuances of this article about Turkish-American cartoonist Murad Gumen being revealed as the driving force behind an anti-Armenian web site. I did find it interesting that Gumen was traced through correspondence with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and that the writer firmly believes that this revelation will cost the cartoonist any future Disney work.
 
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