The digital revolution has savagely torpedoed the old print establishment. Newspapers are struggling, magazine circulation is in a downward spiral, and book publishing is trying to figure out digital distribution. Bobbing about the wreckage in these oil-stained waters is the comic book industry. Long past the heyday when a popular comic book could sell in [...]

(Note: First-time visitors click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) PAUL: It’s time for another episode of NOT At The Movies, where we form arbitrary and heartfelt opinions about movies we haven’t seen, based only on hearsay evidence and our deepest fears. We’re batting .500 so [...]

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) Big kudos to friend-of-Appy Dave Wilkins and creative partner Kevin Munroe on news that their Dark Horse comic series El Zombo is headed to the silver screen! Dave was a stand-out 3D [...]

We’ve always been one big Appy family here at the Worldwide Secret Headquarters of Appy Entertainment, and I’m proud to announce that our family has grown a little larger with the addition of Rick Olafsson as our Chief Financial Officer. We decided it was time for some adult supervision around here, and as Rick did [...]

We have in the past written about how geek is the new chic, and as if to buttress our argument comes word that President-Elect Barack Obama is a Spider-Man fan. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum … that’s kind of cool. Of course, it didn’t take our friends at Marvel Comics long to [...]

No, Sarge isn’t in jail. (I hope). I’m using “arrested” in the sense of meaning that something has been stopped — in this case, development. Not our development as a developer, mind you — I’m talking about our development, overall. Confused? Let me start again. I’ve written before about how I am a card-carrying nerd [...]

PAUL: It’s time to make totally unfair snap judgments about movies we haven’t seen based on emotional reactions and stuff we just make up. Today on Not At The Movies, the Ulm and I savagely attack Tom Cruise’s new picture, Valkyrie. We’ve only seen the trailer but that won’t prevent us from making uninformed pronouncements! [...]

How insane do you have to be to start a new company? According to the Small Business Adminstration, “two-thirds of new employer establishments survive at least two years, and 44 percent survive at least four years.” That means your chances of making it to year four are a lot less than fifty percent. In the [...]