THE BEAT (Free subscription) | yesterday
MUST READ ALERT! Marc-Oliver Frisch talks to probably the most powerful person in comics who we have never seen interviewed before: the New York Times’ George Gene Gustines. As the main comics reporter/reviewer at The Paper of Record, Gustines has an incredible influence over what the rest of the mainstream media thinks about [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... is a better artist that R.M. Guerra ? This ties in some what with yesterday’s George Gene Gustines/Marc-Oliver Frisch discussion on whether mainstream media should offer negative reviews of graphic novels. Alarmingly, I was going to mention the A.V. Club as a place that seemed to be mainstream, fairly comics literate and wide ranging and gutsy enough to deliver low grades in...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Is it that time of the month again already? Last week, Paul O’Brien and Marc-Oliver Frisch posted their monthly analysis of Marvel Comics and DC Comics sales figures, assembled from ICv2.com’s numbers, at Publisher Weekly’s The Beat. And then I read the results. And had some thoughts while reading those results. And I wrote them [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch More “Blackest Night” and more Batman make September another good month for DC Comics’ periodical business. This year’s retelling of Superman’s origin doesn’t set the charts on fire, on the other hand, despite the big-ticket creative team of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank — maybe it’s time to retire the character....
Journalista (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Army. (Link via W.L. Lilly .) This week, five of the bestselling books in France are comics . Marc-Oliver Frisch presents his month-to-month estimates for DC Comics’ sales to Direct Market retailers, now updated for September. ——— ¡Journalista! continues after this commercial message. ——— Literary Comics [Review] Cross Country Link: Rob Clough “M.K. Reed’s book is “ostensibly...
