Comings and Goings this week, notes on DC and Marvel and more

There have been a variety of goings of late, but in addition some hires and promotions.

• Mike Armstrong is leaving ReedPop for an unnamed alternative, he wrote on Facebook. Armstrong was presently the Vice President, New Initiatives a ReedPop however had been the showrunner for C2E2 and NYCC amongst his many different duties. He wrote:

It’s bittersweet for me to announce that after virtually 15 years, I’ll be leaving ReedPop to pursue a brand new position that I’m very enthusiastic about.

My first ReedPop present was New York Anime Fest in 2009 (pictured under!) and I formally joined the group in 2010 for Star Wars Celebration. Between then and now, I’ve had the privilege of working with a number of the most wonderful folks, manufacturers, companions, and followers.

The folks I set to work with had been 100%, for sure, the very best a part of my job. The factor I’ll miss essentially the most is the Sunday 6:30PM post-show hugs, high-fives, and beers that signaled the top of one other profitable present. There’s no higher feeling.

Armstrong’s departure comes quickly after ReedPop president Lance Fensterman left for a nonetheless unnamed new place, so some adjustments there – and a variety of common unrest within the conference house which I’ll take a look at in more element certainly one of lately. Chris Arrant has his personal goodbye to Armstrong at Popverse, however we’ll miss commiserating in regards to the newest Mets disasters with Mike at exhibits. He’s an actual one.

• Jim “Ski” Sokolowski has left Dynamite,, in what’s described as a mutual parting of the methods. Sokolowski was VP/Associate Publisher at Dynamite, however has an extended monitor report at Marvel, DC, (twice every) and Archie and in all probability is aware of more about comedian ebook gross sales than any residing human besides Bob Wayne. They are tied. On his Linkedin Page Ski writes that he’s “not looking for a VP/Dir. Level gig, but if you have a lower/mid level needs, I’d love to connect. Please feel free to reach out if you feel I can help you out in any way.”

• Peter Katz has joined GalaxyCon as

• It’s been a jam packed week of IDW information, however I missed that Heather Antos has been promoted to Group Editor, Licensing, a place the place she’ll oversee Star Trek, Sonic, and different titles. Popverse has the story.

• I used to be AFK when the Jim Lee information broke – because of Joe Grunenwald for stepping in! As Joe appropriately famous, Lee has simply been hoovering up titles as folks depart – taking on as CCO from Geoff Johns, then Publisher from Dan DiDio. And now he provides President to his portfolio.

Lee has remained the highest govt – and now sort of the ONLY govt – at DC because it’s been rocked by many rounds of layoffs and slashed to the bone in some departments. During all this time, some of the fashionable rumors surrounding DC was that Lee can be leaving/let go, maybe as a part of a price chopping transfer.

I’m very pleased to report that that didn’t occur, however trying on the small however doughty band presently operating DC – and the final state of change at Warner Bros. Discovery – Lee not being at DC would have been seismically dire. It would have left the state of the all necessary DC characters utterly up within the air, and made the way forward for the division bleak, to place it mildly. That wouldn’t have been good.

It’s additionally onerous to not see Lee’s promotion as a part of the final inside optimism and pleasure in regards to the revamped DC Studios and its two heads Peter Safran and, in fact, the very comics savvy James Gunn.

So yeah, excellent news.

• Speaking of layoffs, Marvel Comics appears to have been spared in the newest spherical of Disney layoffs. I’m advised nobody actually anticipated any, however, in fact, it’s onerous to not be cautious in these instances. It does seem that March’s downsizing of Marvel Entertainment and removing of Ike Perlmutter was a singular occasion, and the comics division (which I’m advised is steady and worthwhile) might be left alone. At least that’s what I maintain listening to!

Another spherical of layoffs is coming for Disney within the coming months, nonetheless, so we’ll maintain monitoring the scenario.