Even as Platinum’s first comic, Cowboys and Aliens, keeps up the controversy, former Platinum creative types are moving onto greener pastures:
Lee Nordling, for the past several years the executive editor of Platinum Studios’ comic line, will be heading up a new graphic novel packager, the Pack, recently formed with contract partners and long-time industry stalwarts Barbara Kesel (former editor at DC and Dark Horse), Brian Augustyn (former editor at DC, Metron, and Visionary Comics), Dave Olbrich (publisher and co-founder of Malibu, and director of U.S. publishing at Humanoids), and Gordon Kent (currently supervising director on Class of 3000).
It’s a strange reappearance of lots of old familiar names, isn’t it?
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Wow, the silence in the comments department is deafening on this one. Good to see Barbara Kesel back in the mix. I was wondering where Augustyn has been (and why don’t he and Waid collaborate anymore?)–I’ll be curious to see where this goes and wish the folks luck.
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Brian Augustyn’s been fairly active in the small-press comic community for the last few years, doing work in various capacities at Narwain, the Christian-themed publisher Metron Press, Platinum Studios, and Visionary Studios, among others.
In addition to his work with The Pack, he’s just been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Markosia Entertainment, and is writing a comic series for them called THE WITNESS. I believe he also has at least one other book coming out from another small press publisher in the next year or so, but I don’t think it’s been announced yet.
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