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taonggyera
You Can't Stop The Anger
Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:59 am |
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End of an era, apparently
" Working at DC editorially since the mid-seventies, becoming Publisher in 2002, Paul Levitz is, more than anyone, the man responsible for the comics industry that exists in America today.
Alongside then-President Jeanette Kahn, he is responsible for establishing the model with Phil Seuling that would become the direct market, publishers selling comics to comic stores on a firm sale basis, as well as pushing forward creative projects that would initially support it. And he has repeatedly help propped up the direct market as a distributive model for comic books over and above other avenues such as bookstores and digital distribution, and continues to see the comic shop as his primary vendor...
After Marvel bought the Heroes World distributor and other direct market distributors started to suffer, he chose not to use WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic) as DC’s distributor, instead throwing DC’s weight behind the biggest direct distributor at the time, Diamond. And in doing so, insisted on a clause that saw Diamond guarantee small and self publishers to appear in Previews – a clause that has sadly had to fade of late. Many successful non-DC comics could not have appeared without this direct intervention.
His decision not to purchase Diamond Distribution, despite having a option clause in the contracts to do so, also kept the distributor independent..."
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DC will now, in effect, answer more directly to Warner Bros.
And with Disney now commandeering Marvel, all these seem to suggest that the next media battle is set to be waged in the comics field.
Or the beginning of a VERY corporate era for the funnybook.
IF there would still even be ' funnybooks ' to speak of.
Take your pick.
But what these pair of news are, is disconcerting .
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:03 am |
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" But things are changing. Two weeks ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Alan Horn had passed responsibility overseeing DC Comics to Diane Nelson (who I understand started yesterday), DC’s biggest competitor is now Disney, the current position seems to demand a public face that Levitz is uncomfortable becoming, and there is even talk of a name change for the company to Warner Bros Comics. "
Disney Comics Features X-Men. Think about it.
Entertainment Weekly puts it in starker terms.
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