Kidscreened

July 9, 2009 by Kidscreen Staff

• Not every big-media head honcho agrees with Disney’s Bob Iger that people will pay to view content online (L.A. Times)

• Hasbro’s merch sales for Transformers 2 already surpassing 2007′s lineup by as much as 25% (Wall Street Journal)

• Hot Topic’s June same-store Q2 sales take a larger-than-expected dip

• Hayao Miyazaki, the Walt Disney of Japan, to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Comic-Con (New York Times)

• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon on the wilderness of childhood: Are kids getting enough real-life adventure to feed their imaginations? (New York Review of Books)

• How a Marvel Comics artist pours soul into his art (Wired/Underwire)