David Wolh No Longer Editor In Chief Of Radical Entertainment

[Rich Johnston]

Radical Publishing, the west coast company founded by Barry Levine, David Elliott, Jesse Berger, and Matthew Berger has reduced its publishing operations rather of late its seems, certainly where it comes to comic books. Whereas at one point they were swimming in good looking comics and movie deals, there hasn't been much movement on either for a while.

Well, today, editor-in-chief and ex of Top Cow, David Wohl, emailed work associates that he was leaving the company and today would be his last day.

I guess if there's less being published, there is less to edit.

UPDATE: Barry Levine told Bleeding Cool;

As the economics of the comic book business have changed, Radical has evolved into a transmedia company with a publishing division. We are still creating and publishing original IPwith our creative partners, mostly in illustrated novel format, digital format andeven still in comic book form, however we havealso downsized what we need from an editorial capacity. Our focus in 2012 is on sales and distribution, going into production on several tentpole films and nurturing a new distribution deal that we entered into this week, and will be announcing over the coming weeks, that gives us access to Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Best Buy, Sam's Club and Costco, as well as VOD digital platforms. We wish David the best in his new ventures and we intend to work together in the future on a project by project basis.

[tralfaz]

or maybe DC poached him to write a book

[IronButt]

If Barry's lips are moving, you know he's full of crap.

[DocBrass]

raise your hand if you have read a Radical Comic.....

(crickets...chirp chirp)

[barbabravo]

Raises hand

Two actually, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead (Ellis & Pugh) and The Last Days of American Crime (Remender & Tocchini).

[X-Fan]

Raises hand

Two actually, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead (Ellis & Pugh) and The Last Days of American Crime (Remender & Tocchini).

I finally managed to find a copy of the complete Lords of Misrule they did. Fantastic collection if you can find it.

[dgwohl]

That Rich Johnston has sources EVERYWHERE!

[IronButt]

I finally managed to find a copy of the complete Lords of Misrule they did. Fantastic collection if you can find it.

The one that Dave Elliott brought to the company? Great way they treated him also.

[ShinAkuma666]

raise your hand if you have read a Radical Comic.....

(crickets...chirp chirp)

I have read plenty of their stuff, always high quality with top creators, but since their goal has always been to make movies out of these properties, and that things arent going fast enough for them, they are probably cutting back, I just hope that its not the end for Radical.

[Dave Elliott]

Sorry to hear about this. Hope David's okay. It's a tough thing to go through, especially now.

- Dave