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The Four Color Media Monitor: NY Post sugars it up for Wizard
Precocious Curmudgeon: Bizarro world
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Big Apple Comic Con...Geekin' out in the big city! http://bit.ly/1U9va 10/12/2009 |
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NYC Comic Con...the value of Geek just went up! http://bit.ly/1U9va 10/12/2009 |
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The Post gushes about Gareb Shamus. No, really. http://bit.ly/1U9va 10/11/2009 |
NY Post sugars it up for Wizard
The Four Color Media Monitor —
The New York Post has written a sugary article about the publisher of Wizard magazine: Pop culture is finally catching up with Gareb Shamus. Shamus, 40, grew up around his parents' Nanuet, NY, comic book store and loved the fantasy genre so much that as soon as he graduated college he started Wizard magazine -- a monthly dedicated to comic-book characters and the world they live in. Shamus was animated about comic books before comic books were cool -- and tremendously profitable. Today, Shamus' Wizard Entertainment still publishes the thriving 19-year-old title, along with ...
Bizarro world
Precocious Curmudgeon —
... Today’s object lesson in the perils of single-source journalism comes from the The York Post. Richard Wilner interviews Wizard’s Gareb Shamus. ...
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... preview-cum-profile paints a rosy picture of Wizard Entertainment CEO Gareb Shamus and his convention and magazine empire. [New York Post] ...
Comics A.M. - The Comics Internet in 2 Minutes
Comic Book Resources —
... preview-cum-profile paints a rosy picture of Wizard Entertainment CEO Gareb Shamus and his convention and magazine empire. [ New York Post ] Retailing | Cabin Fever Comics has opened in Longmont, Colorado, providing the city with its first comic store since Time Warp closed three years ago. [ ...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/14/09
THE BEAT —
... have such strong opinions about films. They often sit through films even while feeling angry and wondering why the heck anyone made the thing in the first place. People don’t get angry about manga because if they don’t like the stories they won’t finish reading them. I think we can say this is one of the biggest cultural characteristics of manga. It’s no wonder that manga criticism is such a barren field.
§ Evidently, writers at the New York Post don’t know how to use Google search.
The renamed Big Apple Comic-Con, ...
Toronto Comic-Con announced, NOT featuring Warren Ellis
THE BEAT —
... Finally, there is the matter of attendance. According to the New York Post, the show expects “20,000 to 30,000 people,” and “700 companies from film, TV, video games, toys and comics.” Which should be interesting, since the capacity of the venue, Pier 94, is 6500, ...
MAJOR PRESS COVERAGE FOR BIG APPLE COMIC CON
Wizard Universe Articles —
... and Comic News Insider. There will be Sirius Satellite radio coverage from Howard Stern's Howard 101 station with Ralph Cirella as part of their Geek Time segment, from SHADE 45, rapper Eminem's station as well as staffers from the Opie & Anthony Show not broadcast vie satellite radio. Check out the amazing coverage Wizard Entertainment has already received surrounding Big Apple Comic Con: NY POST, Sept. 27 REUTERS NY DAILY NEWS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM NY POST, Oct. 12 BERGEN RECORD MEDIA POST You are not going to want to miss ...
Begun, the Con War has: More on the Big Apple/NYCC match-up
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... Next year's same-weekend, same-city showdown between Reed Exhibitions' New York Comic Con and Wizard Entertainment/Gareb Shamus's Big Apple Comic Con looms large in fandom's collective mind. But what about the here and now?
By several important measures, this weekend's inaugural Shamus-owned Big Apple Comic Con was a major success. For starters, it received an avalanche of enthusiastic coverage from the mainstream press, from both local and national outlets. (Lack of this kind of promotion has been a problem for Wizard shows in ...
