Dynamite Entertainment
Alan Payne has extensive experience in sales and marketing within the publishing industry. Alan started their career at TOKYOPOP as the National Sales Manager, where they focused on building relationships with comic retailers and influencing them to sell manga. Alan then moved on to IDW Publishing, where they served as the VP of Sales and played a key role in strategically growing sales. Alan worked directly with major resellers and maintained relationships with distributors and buyers at various retailers. Currently, Alan is the VP of Sales and Marketing at Dynamite Entertainment.
Alan Payne attended the University of Minnesota for an unspecified period of time, but did not complete a degree or specify a field of study.
Dynamite Entertainment
DYNAMITE was founded in 2004 and is home to many best-selling properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Warlord of Mars, Game of Thrones, SEAL Team Six and more! Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over 3,000 characters (which includes Warren, Harris Comics, Charlton, and Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. In addition to their critically-acclaimed and best-selling comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high profile creators in comics and entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner and a host of up and coming new talent! DYNAMITE is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book publishers and several of their titles have debuted in the Top Ten lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005 Diamond awarded the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006 for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%) and again in 2011. The company has also been nominated for several industry awards, including the prestigious Eisner Award. Dynamite also has a custom publishing and creative services division! Custom comics can be used to: • Provide value as an in-pack or on-pack gift with purchase • Market new services or products • Incentivize freebie for signing up for email list, social media, or other promotional purpose • Give away at a convention or trade show • Create educational programs that reach a younger audience • Further your brand, and tell stories in a different medium In addition to custom comics, Dynamite also offers other creative services, such as: • Creating eye-popping custom illustrations for marketing • Producing fantastic concept/character designs & model sheets • Packaging licensed comics, developing all story & art Download PDF with more info and details via this link: http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/custompublishing.html