CBR: Tilting at Windmills - Mar 31, 2010

[CBR News]

TILTING AT WINDMILLS arrives a few weeks early due to Brian Hibbs' excitement at a great weekend-long ComicsPRO event that saw a Robert Kirkman keynote address, DC Comics dialoguing with retailers and much more!


Full article here.

[apoehler]

Fascinating stuff as always. Really seems like Marvel management dropped the ball here and the new DC team is more than willing to pick it up and run with it.

[Kurt Busiek]

I have, really, only one negative thing to report about the meeting, and that is that Marvel comics didn't send any representatives whatsoever. Not even an unpaid intern to sit in a corner and take notes. This is where I reiterate I speak only for myself, but I think it is a direct and deep insult to working retailers that the single largest publisher can't be bothered to participate in the single most productive weekend of the year. The height of the folly, to me, is that this year's first annual ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award in the posthumous category was given to Marvel's Carol Kalish, and the award ended up getting accepted by former DC publisher Paul Levitz.

I was very glad when I heard Paul would be accepting the award. To me, it underscored the idea that it was a non-partisan award for all Carol did for the industry, and not an award for any one company.

Paul accepting it said that what Carol did helped comics and the direct market. It helped Marvel, too, but wasn't by any means limited to that.

Paul was Richard Howell's first choice for someone to accept the award, as well.

kdb

[Village Idiot]

For those who may not know, Carol and Richard were longtime significant others.

[Brian Hibbs]

I was very glad when I heard Paul would be accepting the award. To me, it underscored the idea that it was a non-partisan award for all Carol did for the industry, and not an award for any one company.

Fair Enough, Kurt.

Video of the ceremony can be found at http://comicspro.blogspot.com/2010/0...ored-with.html

-B

[Kurt Busiek]

Fair Enough, Kurt.

Video of the ceremony can be found at http://comicspro.blogspot.com/2010/0...ored-with.html

Thanks!

I don't know if Richard knows about it, so I'm passing it on to him, too.

kdb

[ShadowDemon]

I'm not surprised about Marvel.

All the "we're letting Marvel run itself" talk notwithstanding, Disney is NOT going to not put it's "stamp" on it's new property, and the focus is clearly on the multi-media side of the business, not the books.