Comments on: Carnival of souls: Special “Death of Wizard” edition [UPDATED with more links]

By: Why I’m not attending Mid-Ohio-Con 2011 (or: Wizard World can go straight to hell)

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:16:42 +0000

[...] this economy, but when they day comes that Wizard World goes extinct the way of Gareb Shamus’ other much-maligned venture, I won’t shed a tear. The comics industry will be better off with a more progressive, [...]

By: The death of Wizard and ToyFare, from the inside | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:01:44 +0000

[...] Sean T. Collins (former Managing Editor, Wizard; writer, Robot 6, Maxim, Destructor, etc.): “I met, oh, between a dozen and two dozen of the best people I’ve ever known, people with whom I’m close friends to this day. You’d recognize their names as they’re in positions of prominence across the industry and the popcultjourno biz at large; I don’t care about any of that so much as i care about the fact that they’re kind, generous, talented people I’m privileged to know and be associated with. And there’s nothing I can say about Wizard and its management more damning than telling you how poorly so many of those people were treated there, up through and including today.” [Attentiondeficitdisorderly] [...]

By: Casting Internets « UnitedMonkee

Casting Internets « UnitedMonkee — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:13:37 +0000

[...] at Wizard I highly recommend checking out posts by my friends and former colleagues Ryan Penagos, Sean Collins, Chris Ward and Alex [...]

By: Comics A.M. | More details on Wizard closing; did Comics Code end in 2009? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:35:30 +0000

[...] Ching surveys numerous creators and editors; and Robot 6 contributor, and former Wizard staffer, Sean T. Collins comments on the magazine’s demise and rounds up [...]

By: Andrew Kardon

Andrew Kardon — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:05:27 +0000

Perfectly put, Sean, as I’d expect from you. And while we hardly had an opportunity to work together on a magazine, I do still remember sitting in on your interview process those many years ago. While the print magazine may be dead, the lessons, camaraderie and lasting friendships certainly will live on long past that final issue.

By: Sean T. Collins

Sean T. Collins — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:08:25 +0000

For real, Dirk, for real. One of the guys who was let go had worked there for eighteen years, and they fired him over the phone on a Sunday night. Shamus didn’t even have the stones to make the call himself — he never has, not even when they fired the magazine’s co-founder Pat McCallum; he had his Desaad-like underling do it. Really contemptible.

Anyway, I think the rules dictate that you now have the right to write a short essay explaining my partial responsibility for the decline and fall of this once-great institution.

By: Dirk Deppey

Dirk Deppey — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:26:24 +0000

Say this much for Fantagraphics: When they suspend a magazine’s regular publication or let an employee go, they at least do so in straightforward and honorable fashion.

So basically, the Comics Buyers Guide wins…?

By: Brandon Schatz

Brandon Schatz — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:58:02 +0000

Fantastic account, Sean, and eloquently put. I’m not exactly sure what has me traversing the internet, looking for various takes on this situation. That impulse that I hate, probably, the one that likes to take a look at the car accident as I drive by, for some terrible unknown reason? Guh, who knows. Regardless, thanks for adding a bit of perspective to things.

By: Sean T. Collins

Sean T. Collins — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:05:59 +0000

Chris, Zach, Rachel, thank you. I’m glad I met all of you!

By: Carnival of souls: Special “Non-Death of Wizard” edition « Attentiondeficitdisorderly by Sean T. Collins

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:25:18 +0000

[...] Well, almost: I’ve added a couple more links to my post on the shutdown of Wizard and ToyFare; I hope you’ll read [...]