FFF Results Post #281—Industry News

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Your Five Favorite Comics Industry News Stories Of The Last 30 Years." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. The People Vs. Mike Diana
2. DC Signs A Secret Deal With Diamond
3. Disney Buys Marvel
4. Jack Kirby Wants His Art Back
5. Michael George Found Guilty

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Joe Vince

1. The formation of Image Comics
2. Marvel's bankruptcy
3. Distributor wars
4. Manga boom of the early '00s
5. Neil Gaiman sues Todd McFarlane

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Marc Arsenault

1. The Tundra/Kitchen Sink/Comics Journal/Carole Sobocinski Saga
2. The Pope of Pot -- who sold marijuana out of a New York comic shop
3. Jack Kirby's Lord's of Light film/theme park project which later was repurposed into a cover to free American hostages from Iran
4. LPC Group bankruptcy and its consequences
5. Kodansha commissions massive amounts of work by Paul Pope, Tom Hart, David Mazzucchelli and many others and releases very little of it.

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Shannon Smith

1) Top Shelf comics "saved by comics community" emergency sell after the collapse of LPC.
2) Valarie D'Orazio (now Gallaher) "Goodbye to Comics".
3) "Rallsballs". Ted Rall vs. Danny Hellman.
4) Dave Sim's internet message board tour in promotion of glamourpuss.
5) The Bill Mantlo story.

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Matt Emery

1. Closure of Buenaventura Press
2. Sale of 33,000 pages of original art from IPC archives to a private dealer.
3. Diamond increasing pre-order minimums
4. Bill Blackbeard's passing and the delay in anyone noticing
5. The current golden age of reprints

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Buzz Dixon

5. Stan Lee Media (full disclosure: I was involved in this)
4. Collapse of the collectible market
3. Wizard implosion
2. Penis taunting at Archie Comics!
1. Sailor Moon premieres on US TV; millions of American girls ask "How long has this been going on?" & discover manga

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John Vest

1. Kitchen Sink's pact with Tundra
2. Friendly Frank's Michael Correa arrested
3. Steve Gerber's lawsuit against Marvel settled out of court
4. Jim Shooter dismissed at Marvel
5. Comics Code Authority defunct

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Michael Dooley

1. The Comic Art Show (1983)
2. Comic Iconoclasm (1988)
3. High & Low (1990)
4. Masters of American Comics (2005)
5. Lyonel Feininger at the Edge of the World (2011)

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Rodrigo Baeza

* Newsarama reveals that the Siegel heirs are trying to claim the copyright to Superman.
* Fantagraphics announces The Complete Peanuts.
* The story of Alan Moore/Bill Sienkiewicz/Al Columbia's Big Numbers (which summarizes, in a way, the whole story of Tundra).
* The end of the Michael Fleisher vs. The Comics Journal & Harlan Ellison trial, transcripts published by TCJ.
* Alan Moore is announced as the writer of Image's Spawn #8, to be followed by a series called 1963 in which he is reunited with Rick Veitch and Steve Bissette.

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Mark Coale

1. Heroes World Closes
2. WB Animation / Creation of Dini/Timm 'Verse
3. Creation of Absolute format
4. Newspaper Strip Archive Collections
5. Saga of Miracleman/Marvelman

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John Platt

1. Marvel Comics' acquisition of Heroes World Distribution.
2. The Eclipse flood.
3. The creation of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
4. The collapse of the original New York City comic book convention in 1996, which gave birth to Big Apple Comic Con.
5. The formation of Image Comics.

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Tony Collett

1. DC Comics to release a direct market exclusive maxi-series Camelot 3000 by Mike Barr and Brian Bolland.
2. Eclipse to bring Marvelman to the US as Miracleman in a 75-cent color comic book.
3. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund formed in the wake of the Friendly Frank's Comics case.
4. Movie rights cleared, Spider-Man movie coming in 2002.
5. Frank Miller to do Batman deluxe comic book The Dark Knight Returns.

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Michael Grabowski

1. Fan Favorite Marvel Creators Bolt, Form Image Comics
2. Dave Sim Self-distributes High Society, Riling Retailers & Distributors
3. Sony, Marvel, & Stan Lee Sue Each Other Over Profits & Ownership of Spider-Man Properties
4. Eastman & Laird Self-publish TMNT, Get Filthy Rich On Their Own Terms, Subsidize Tundra Publishing & Xeric Grants
5. Comics Code Authority Withers Away

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Jamie Coville

1. TokyoPop publishes Authentic Manga
2. A.C.T.O.R. (now HERO Initiative) forms
3. Siegel Heirs get 50 Percent of Superman copyright back
4. Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman self publish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
5. 7 artists break from Marvel to form Image Comics.

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