Former DC editor Mike Gold returns a new pop-culture site with a lot of familiar names:
Beginning today, a group of veteran comics editors and digital entrepreneurs are launching Comicmix.com, a new pop culture Web site devoted to news and opinion on the comics industry, in addition to covering movies, TV, music and gaming.
The site will also feature columns and blogs from comics writer Peter David, longtime DC and Marvel comics editor Dennis O’Neil, pop culture and political blogger Elayne Riggs, comics writer John Ostrander and many others. The site will offer podcast comics reviews by a revolving crew of reviewers including well-known music writer Dave Marsh and others.
Mike Gold is the editor-in-chief of Comicmix. A 30 year veteran of the comics business, Gold has worked at DC Comics in addition to founding First Comics and working on a wide variety of comics projects for such companies as Image, Acclaim and IDW… “The comics industry began in the depression of the 1930s in the magazine business,” said Gold. “Now we’ve got new communication tools and people will be looking for new ways to read comics,” he said pointing to computers and digital distribution.”We want Comismix to be a portal to the 21st century.”
Right now,the site has one page, that says “Belted by gamma rays. Bear with us.” Either the PW story announcing the launch “today” (actually yesterday, when the story went live) was wrong, or this is not the most promising start…
February 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Oh, ye of little faith.
Comics fans just have no patience…
February 7th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
That’s OK — after the first press releases went out yesterday announcing yesterday’s grand opening, the site was still password protected. This is a marked improvement.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
LOL…they might have the same problem that Comicspace ran into…
February 7th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I like it better than the PS3 launch
February 7th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I always wondered what happened to Mike Gold after I noticed I almost always liked titles he edited. Hoping this is cool.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
There was a new link that wasn’t there before and it brought me here! At least now I could click something when I went to the site.
February 7th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Let’s think..who would have the most to gain if the site had start up problems? How about the writers who are writing weekly columns and have NOT done the work?? EH?
Wait-I’m writing a column. Let’s just blame it on Bush and move on.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
I’m looking forward to this.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:44 am
“We want Comismix to be a portal to the 21st century.” — was this from their own press release?
February 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Foolish humans! This is obviously the sequel to Sonic Disruptors… or maybe the continuation of The Shadow…
February 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
All right, who made the Sonic Disruptors crack? You are closer than you know.
February 11th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Gamma rays thwarted – site up!