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COMMENT: Speakeasy Shuts Its Doors

By On February 27, 2006 · 1 Comment · In Pop Culture, Publishing

UPDATED…AGAIN!

Let the fallout begin…

Elk’s Run creator/writer, Joshua Hale Fialkov, confirmed what seemed pretty inevitable earlier this afternoon over on his blog:

So, just got off the phone with Adam Fortier, President etc. of Speakeasy Comics. Speakeasy is no more. Due to some payment problems and low sales, it seems, they’ve had [...]

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Buzzscope Interview: Alias’ Miller In the Hot Seat

By On June 9, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In Pop Culture

Miller owns up to mistakes, promises 30 years of comics

Alias Enterprises burst onto the comics scene a few months back, hot on the heels of a trio of successful titles published under the Image banner: Lullaby, The Imaginaries, and Lions, Tigers and Bears. With multi-page advertising spreads in Previews, and an all-out internet PR-blitz [...]

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Buzzscope Preview: Skyscrapers of the Midwest #2

By On June 7, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In Pop Culture, Reviews

If you follow this site at all, you know that when I come across an indie comic I love, I pimp the hell out of it! 100 Girls, Fade From Grace, Western Tales of Terror and Elk’s Run have all received an extra helping of rave reviews from me for being superlative examples of great [...]

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Retailer Spotlight: Richmond Comix

By On April 16, 2005 · 3 Comments · In Pop Culture

A few weeks back, we took a trip south to visit my mother in Virginia, and I decided to hit Diamond’s Comic Shop Locator to see what the four-color world was like outside of New York City. Punching in the zip code of her suburban Richmond town, I was surprised to see [...]

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Interview: Fialkov on Elk’s Run

By On March 16, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In Pop Culture

It’s a sad fact in the comics industry today that succesfully launching a brand new title is a Herculean feat for the Big Two, requiring a massive marketing and promotion campaign with no guarantees of success. For independent publishers, it’s a near impossible task. Even sadder is the fact that the lower half [...]

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