Virgin Comics shuttering NY office
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Citing “the current macro-economic downturn,” the company, under CEO Sharad Devarajan and president Suresh Seetharaman, said it hopse to restructure the business and consolidate its operations to a Los Angeles base.
Eight people have been laid off.
The company launched in 2006 with Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra and director Shekhar Kapur among its founders. It began by publishing comics inspired by Indian/Hindu mythology and then moved into a line known as Director’s Cut, which attempted to lure filmmakers into the comic world in the hopes of subsequently getting the books set up as film projects
Guy Ritchie, John Woo, Nicolas Cage, Ed Burns, and musician Dave Stewart were among the contributors to the line, with Ritchie’s “The Game Keeper” finding a home at Warner Bros.
- from THR