♦ First they replaced Axel Alonso with CB Cebulski last year and now Dan Buckley is moving up to president of Marvel. John Nee, formerly of Wildstorm, is taking over as its new publisher. The Hollywood Reporter’s Graeme MacMillan had the details via comicbook.com:
Marvel Entertainment has a new publisher, with Dan Buckley standing down from the position he’d held for the last 15 years to become the full-time president of the company.John Nee, formerly DC Entertainment’s senior vp business development, will oversee the company’s comic book line in both print and digital formats, as well as oversee budget and marketing for Marvel’s comic book output. Nee will also be in charge of Marvel’s new prose publishing efforts. The appointment was announced by ComicBook.com.Talking to ComicBook.com, outgoing Publisher Buckley said, “Our comics and prose businesses have many opportunities in front of them, and each of those opportunities require a certain amount of expertise. We feel John can provide us with that expertise for each of these opportunities.”Nee left DC back in 2010 to co-found and become CEO of Cryptozoic Entertainment, which was the games publisher responsible for licensed material from The Walking Dead, Lord of the Rings and DC Entertainment itself. His Marvel appointment sees his return to the comic book industry.
In the last couple of years, Marvel’s print sales have declined dramatically; at a time when almost everything that could go wrong for Marvel seemingly did, its sales dominance visibly diminished, with retailers openly refusing to carry particular releases due to Marvel’s publisher-mandated order levels. In 2017, only three of the best-selling comics were Marvel titles, a far cry from 2014, when the company published nine of the 10 best-selling comics of the year.
Nee takes over as publisher just two months after Marvel gained a new editor in chief in the form of C.B. Cebulski, who almost immediately had been revealed as masquerading as a Japanese freelancer in an attempt to defraud the company a decade earlier.
We shall if the new blood helps to boost Marvel’s flagging fortunes in 2017.
According to Buckley’s ComicBook.com interview this week, creative and editorial decisions for Marvel’s publishing line will be made by Nee, albeit with “oversight from C.B. Cebulski, Joe Quesada, and myself.”
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