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Valiant’s Fred Pierce: “The entertainment world revolves around our industry”

There is only one Fred Pierce, and his own response to that would probably be “Thank God.” Starting in comics as a director at the original Valiant Comics in the early 90s, he moved on to become the COO and President of Wizard – a position he held for 14 years. In 2009, the band got back together as Valiant came back with a new published, Dinesh Shamdasani, and Pierce brought his experience with…

NEWS WATCH: Valiant Entertainment Promotes Robert Meyers to Editorial Director #iamawatcher #comicwatch

Former Managing Editor Will Have Increased Role in Future Publishing Plans. Valiant Entertainment has announced that Managing Editor Robert Meyers has been promoted to Editorial Director, effective immediately. The news comes on the heels of the announcement of Joe Illidge joining as Executive Editor and is part of an effort by the publisher to strengthen its editing team of Editor Karl…

Mel Caylo Joins Valiant As Director Of Marketing

Valiant have made their first big hiring announcement following the departure of CEO/CCO Dinesh Shamdasani and VP of Marketing & Communications Hunter Gorinson, and that is the hiring of seasoned industry veteran Mel Caylo as the new Director of Marketing. Caylo will be working closely with Valiant’s executive, sales, and editorial teams to plan, execute, and oversee all aspects of PR and…

Welcome To Our Next Valiant ICONS Series, Bloodshot Salvation – A Roundtable Interview With Valiant Entertainment

  On September 20th, 2017, the next chapter in the history of a major Valiant hero begins with Bloodshot Salvation. In acclaimed and Eisner-award nominated previous arcs, also written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Mico Suayan and Lewis Larosa, Bloodshot, aka Ray Garrison, has become a nanite-powered super soldier on the run from his creators in an attempt to avoid a life purely based on acting as a…

Fred Pierce Valiant Entertainment Publisher; Bloodshot - Byte Creative Continuity

Byte Sized Creative Continuity re-issue from 2015.

This week marks our 100th episode and to celebrate we have gathered some of the finest folks working at Valiant Entertainment to discuss comics, the industry, fandom, the future and more! This week’s guests include Dinesh Shamdasani (CEO), Hunter Gorinson (VP Marketing), Adam Freeman (Head...

Ed Catto: More Valiant Than Ever

A few weeks ago I wrote about the fantastic experiences I had years ago working with the first iteration of the company that we know today as Valiant. I was in brand management in Nabisco on OREO cookies and was introduced to the company (on a professional basis) through a wonderful guy named Seymour Miles. He was responsible for Ad Sales and Custom Comics. Of course, as a lifelong fan and comics…

In honor of the launch of Valiant’s latest tentpole ongoing series – WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #1 by New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti and newly Valiant-exclusive artist Raul Allen – Valiant Entertainment will be providing select comics retailers across North America wit...