Well this is certainly a shocking piece of Monday morning news.
According to a scoop over at Bleeding Cool, Wizard Magazine – the #1 print source of comic news in the last twenty years – is dead in print. As the report goes, the magazine staff has been laid off, the freelance staff have all their work cancelled, and the doors for that venture are closed effective immediately. Wizard Magazine used to be one of the biggest entities in comics (reportedly at one time selling more than most comics), but with the onset of digital media and sites like this one, Wizard isn’t exactly the fastest way to get your news any longer. Not only that, but people have had issues with the content, the tone of the content, and the way that they run things. Either way, Wizard has always been a good source for comic fans, and it’s the only steady magazine in the past two decades that I personally had been reading on a semi-regular basis for comic news and interviews, as well as general content.
If this isn’t a sign of the times, then I don’t know what is.
(via source)
