There are very few specialists who know how to prepare miniatures for injection moulding technology.
Tintin comic cover sells for over $1 million in auction
Tintin art is rare as most of it is owned by the Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, near Brussels.
Clockwork Publishing goes bankrupt
The crowdfunding for Clockwork Publishing’s Dark Conspiracy only just finished, it raised nearly $40,000 but it wasn’t enough.
Funko buys Forrest-Pruzan Creative to move into board games
Forrest-Pruzan Creative has a host of good board games with some top tier licences, including; Disney Villainous, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Bob Ross – Art of Chill and Choose Your Own Adventure – House of Danger.
Frank Frazetta’s Escape on Venus sells for $660,000
Heritage Auction successfully sold Frank Frazetta’s oil painting for US$660,000. The iconic fantasy painter did the painting as a cover for the novel Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1974. Right now, on Amazon.co.uk you can find the 1984 printing of Escape on Venus with the Frazetta painting for a little as 1p […]
$72,000 for original Magic: The Gathering Card art
Shahrazad has sold for $72,000. Illustrated by Kaja Foglio is a stunning oil on illustrated board with a matted image area of 7″ by 5.5″. It’s signed and in excellent condition. If you have a Shahrazad Magic: The Gathering card which uses this painting then be mindful that the card alone usually sells for north […]
Tomorrow’s jobs: Will our children be dinosaur keepers?
Jurassic World is currently out in the cinemas, and we’re all watching the consequences of bringing dinosaurs back from extinction and then messing things up. Science fiction, right? Tomorrow’s jobs Let’s look at whether we might see dinosaurs brought back to life in the future a little later on. First, let’s take some time to […]
Games Workshop split £5m bonus between staff
Games Workshop has had a good year. Profits are expected to almost double. In other words, the Nottingham-based gaming company will make about £74m this year compared to £38m last year. Why? 75% of Games Workshops profits are made internationally – in America and abroad. The Pound has been very weak which keeps the cost […]
WizKids to make Warhammer 40K games – Games Workshop share price surges
It isn’t April 1st. On the WizKids’ website is a press release that announces a multi-year partnership between Games Workshop and WizKids. WizKids will make Warhammer 40 Dice Building Games, board games and other undisclosed games. Games like Relic and Fury of Dracula will be republished. It’s great for fans that these two companies are […]
Wizard World to shutdown several Comic Cons
Wizard World, the geek friendly company behind several Comic Cons and events, will take the axe to its roster. 2014 had been a good year for the company with nearly a million Dollars in profit. This resulted in the company expanding from 17 shows to 25. 2015 was tougher, though, as ICv2’s Milton Griepp reports. […]
