Friday: the day in Marvel/Disney!  Sm Spidey Mouse• Bob Iger
held a meeting with Marvel folks yesterday morning, and by all
accounts, it went over very well. C.B. Cebulski tweeted :  “The
essence of Marvel, that lives mainly in its comic books, will
remain as is.” – Disney’s Bob Iger speaking at Marvel this
morning.  And then, the usually unstoppable tweeter
Cebulski….fell silent for the remainder of the day.  Rich
Johnston had an excellent piece on the European situation.
Basically, Disney is an overseas powerhouse, and the biggest
publisher in many European countries — however, its market share
has been slipping of late. BUT, Marvel is distributed by Panini,
a rival of Disney’s Italian office and a company that was once
OWNED by Marvel but came out of the deal one of the biggest
comics licensors in Europe. This one is going to be rough!  • It
has been a busy week! I recorded two interviews yesterday! One
with Mike Melia for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer’s Art Beat
blog.  And another with Scott Hinze for Fanb