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NYCC | UP, creator schedules and more
With the New York Comic Con coming up this weekend, we’re posting information on the various things fans can do and see at the show. If you’re a publisher, creator, retailer or otherwise exhibiting at the show, feel free to drop me an email with your plans for the show before Friday.
General information: Ticket info | Panels | Autographs | 2009 ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference | Blog | Guide
• Unfortunately, Final Crisis writer Grant Morrison has had to pull out of the con. In a statement, Morrison said, “As a result of family issues, I won’t be able to make it to the New York Comic Con this week. My apologies to everyone, and particularly to the readers I won’t get a chance to meet this time around due to circumstances beyond my control. See you next time.”
NYCC’s Lance Fensterman provides a little more detail at his blog, saying that “this is a really unfortunate situation with his mother that is far more important that NYCC.”
- February 4, 2009 @ 05:48 AM by JK Parkin
BOOM! Studios’ Chip Mosher on Hexed, Farscape and more
Chip Mosher at Disneyland
Yesterday Mark Waid, editor-in-chief of BOOM! Studios, announced via a YouTube video that BOOM! would post full issues of their Hexed mini-series on MySpace the same day the book was released in stores, just like they did with the North Wind mini-series a year ago. As I was already talking to Chip Mosher, their sales and marketing guy, about several other things going on with BOOM! when the video was released, I was able to sneak in a few questions about the promotion as well.
My thanks to Chip for his time.
JK: Last year BOOM! put the complete North Wind mini-series up on MySpace Comic Books, with each issue going up on the day it hit retailers’ shelves. And now you’re doing it again with HEXED. Why did you choose HEXED, versus any of your other titles?
Chip: Right time. Right place. Right book.
Personally, I see Hexed as one of the books that is kicking off BOOM! 3.0. I consider Mark coming on board as E-i-C as BOOM! 2.0 — where he spearheaded the stabilizing of the line-up and built up editorial. I look at this next year as BOOM! 3.0 — where the promise of Mark Waid as E-i-C is realized in full. The team here at BOOM! is running on all cylinders. You’ll see a whole host of books coming out of BOOM! in the next year, shepherded by Mark and the editorial team, that will just rock your socks off.
- January 7, 2009 @ 10:15 AM by JK Parkin