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Matt Brady announces his departure from Newsarama
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Newsarama Senior Editor Matt Brady announced this afternoon that he’s leaving after nearly 10 years with the comics website.
Newsarama founder Michael Doran will remain. Lucas Siegel, a frequent site contributor and husband of DC Comics assistant editor Janelle Siegel, will step in to Brady’s role.
“After nearly twenty years of covering comics, and ten years with Newsarama, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on to other arenas and challenges,” Brady wrote in his farewell message. “And just to cut off the legs of any rumors that may be trying to take root, this is a decision I made, and am leaving the site at my own time, on my own terms.”
Brady and Doran sold Newsarama to digital media company Imaginova in October 2007, but remained to run the website.
Jonah Weiland, executive producer of Comic Book Resources, offered the following words for Brady:
Matt, I hope the future holds as much success for you as you’ve experienced in the past. The job we do is a difficult one, but most people only see the final product and thus we make it look easy. I know how hard you’ve worked over the years having spent numerous conventions trading war stories, so I hope you get some time to relax a bit before jumping to your next venture. And I’ll never forget one of the more fun adventures I’ve had during a convention and you were part of it. It was a Chicago convention, I believe 2004, and after the show on Saturday night I convinced you and CBR staffers Augie De Blieck Jr. and Michael Sullivan to hop on the train with me into downtown Chicago for dinner. There was no plan, no dinner place selected, I had no idea where I was going, but I figured we’d just go and see what happens. Augie was certain we ‘d die or end up bleeding in an alley. Not only did we make it back alive, we had a fun little adventure in Chicago, a phenomenal dinner at an incredible steak house (my pork thing was as big as my head!) and even got to watch them filming aerial shots for Batman Begins as we sat outside. Good times.
Best of luck, Matt! Enjoy the moment.
- July 17, 2009 @ 12:00 PM by Kevin Melrose
9 Comments
Jill aka The Nerdy Bird
July 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Wow. That’s really all I can say.
Richard
July 17, 2009 at 12:26 pm
paradigm shift!
Augie De Blieck Jr.
July 17, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I’m with Jonah — that was a hell of a night. I’m still shocked we survived. We did it again the following year with a bigger group, and it was a lot of fun.
Matt and I had a couple of great Sunday night dinners in San Diego, too, splitting a cab back to the airport. Ah, the good ol’ days.
Anyway, Matt’s not dead, and good luck to him. But, really, selling your website, sticking around for a year, and leaving? It’s almost cliche.
David
July 17, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Selling your website to a group who then butchered it, ruined the content, and made it into an awkward, poorly-designed site that was extremely user-unfriendly, and then sticking around for a year before leaving is even more cliche
Ken
July 17, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Classy, David. Classy
The Ugly American
July 17, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Selling your website to a group who then butchered it, ruined the content, and made it into an awkward, poorly-designed site that was extremely user-unfriendly, and then sticking around for a year before leaving is also classy.
Alan Coil
July 17, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Whoever said the internet was made to be classy.
The Ugly American
July 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Al Gore did. He’s the classy inventor of the internet.
Steve
July 17, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I suppose that we’ll see David and U.A.’s far superior site any day now. Augie’s remark was obvious in friendly jest. You guys (or guy, since it’s the same message for both of you) are just two more little douchebags on a great big internet. Do better than Matt or Jonah or Heidi, and then maybe you can talk some smack.