DC Comics In Upheaval

Marc Alan Fishman

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10 Responses

  1. Jason M. Bryant says:

    I never had any faith in Zuda. It was a webcomics site made by people who knew nothing about webcomics and didn’t care to. No fan/author interaction, all their pages for different comics looked alike, and they cared a lot more about how the comic was going to work as a printed book later than how it worked right now as a webcomic.

  2. Jason M. Bryant says:

    I never had any faith in Zuda. It was a webcomics site made by people who knew nothing about webcomics and didn't care to. No fan/author interaction, all their pages for different comics looked alike, and they cared a lot more about how the comic was going to work as a printed book later than how it worked right now as a webcomic.

  3. Bob Kahan says:

    It seems to me that DC Comics publishing future resembles DC Comics publishing past, like pre-1990. All the ephemera is being removed to the left coast. I’d like to think that this would stir some creative juices.

    • Glenn Hauman says:

      That was when freelance talent moved, when FedEx and fax machines came in, and they moved one at a time and no one lost work. This is a bit different.

  4. Bob Kahan says:

    It seems to me that DC Comics publishing future resembles DC Comics publishing past, like pre-1990. All the ephemera is being removed to the left coast. I'd like to think that this would stir some creative juices.

    • Glenn Hauman says:

      That was when freelance talent moved, when FedEx and fax machines came in, and they moved one at a time and no one lost work. This is a bit different.

  5. Tommy Raiko says:

    The news I’ve seen has described the divisions moving to CA as “digital, multimedia and administrative,” while the comics publishing (or maybe only the editorial part of comics publishing) is staying in NYC. My question is: about how much of DC’s staff could be described as working in ” “digital, multimedia and administrative” functions?

    There’s probably not a hard and fast answer yet, so I’m sure the answer is “wait and see.” But this article’s headline “half of what’s left goes west” makes it sound like fully 50% of DC’s staff was involved in these non-comics-publishing parts of the business. I guess my question is: “Is it really that many?”

    I’m just trying to wrap my head around the scope of this news. Not that it’s particularly any of my business, but quantifiable information on businesses’ staff changes, relocations, etc. are always interesting to any conversation or analysis.

    • Brandon Barrows says:

      I would almost guarantee their digital/multimedia/admin folks outnumber the comics folks. For the Big Two, comics are seemingly the smallest part of their business these days, and exist to create fodder for the video games/cartoons/toys/movies/etc so it’d make sense that more people would work in those aspects of the business than the actual comic publishing side.

  6. Tommy Raiko says:

    The news I've seen has described the divisions moving to CA as "digital, multimedia and administrative," while the comics publishing (or maybe only the editorial part of comics publishing) is staying in NYC. My question is: about how much of DC's staff could be described as working in " "digital, multimedia and administrative" functions? There's probably not a hard and fast answer yet, so I'm sure the answer is "wait and see." But this article's headline "half of what's left goes west" makes it sound like fully 50% of DC's staff was involved in these non-comics-publishing parts of the business. I guess my question is: "Is it really that many?"I'm just trying to wrap my head around the scope of this news. Not that it's particularly any of my business, but quantifiable information on businesses' staff changes, relocations, etc. are always interesting to any conversation or analysis.

    • Brandon Barrows says:

      I would almost guarantee their digital/multimedia/admin folks outnumber the comics folks. For the Big Two, comics are seemingly the smallest part of their business these days, and exist to create fodder for the video games/cartoons/toys/movies/etc so it'd make sense that more people would work in those aspects of the business than the actual comic publishing side.