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Interesting. Thanks for the history. As I recall from the news, the
building was not just for WWN. The anthrax letter was sent to the company that owns/ operates the Enquirer, Globe and WWN. My question is this- if the building was hit by anthrax, how come every OTHER publication based there was able to continue publishing EXCEPT for Cracked? They must have been having problems before that in terms of lack of funding or something. I think we still need to dub Kulpa the "Stone-Cold CRACKED Killah"!!! |
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BTW, I tried to post this article regarding Dick Kulpa- aka SCCK (the
Stone-Cold Cracked Killah)- earlier today, but it didn't appear. Here's the info on the sale of Cracked and the financial problems. It all makes sense now! Also, I guarantee that SCCK is downplaying how low he took circulation. He's downplaying the mag's peak (bet it was more than 50,000 before SCCK got his kooky hands on it), and I guarantee that the Stone-Cold CRACKED Killah took it to such a level that the mag is probably offcially dead- especially for this A-rab dude. Kulpa (aka SCCK) is like a trained magazine assassin!! And he now wants to move on and kill a Maxim-like publication!! ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.palmbeachpost.com/busines...cked_0212.html Boynton owner sells 'Cracked' magazine By Stephen Pounds Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 12, 2005 Cracked magazine owner Dick Kulpa of Boynton Beach has sold the publication and its stable of wisecracking characters to an Arab publishing firm. Kulpa sold the magazine through an attorney representing the buyer, he said Friday. The Gulf Daily News in Bahrain identified the buyer as Teshkeel Media Group KSC in Kuwait City. The price of the sale wasn't disclosed. Cracked was founded in 1958 as an illustrated, satirical magazine similar to Mad. Like Mad, it formed a national following based on its sassy and wacky comic characters. Kulpa bought it four years ago for less than $5 million from Boca Raton-based American Media Inc., where he worked as a senior editor. He published Cracked bimonthly with a cover price of $2.95 an issue. The magazine's circulation dropped to 30,000 from 50,000, and Kulpa struggled to finance its publication. He also had problems distributing the magazine. "We'd get a run going. Maybe we'd get three or four issues out, and then the funds would run out," he said. "It's like taking off in an airplane and having too heavy a load and having to set down." The new owner, Teshkeel, was founded last year. The publishing company plans to develop original children's content, with a focus on the Arab world. It will move Cracked from Boynton Beach to New York. "It's now in the hands of people capable of publishing and marketing Cracked," Kulpa said. Kulpa, 52, now wants to start a magazine such as Maxim aimed at young males. "After four years of marketing this and 15 years working in the national mainstream arena, my resources are better off publishing a mainstream magazine that would go hand in hand with the Internet," Kulpa said. "Comic books are a totally different animal." |
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On 20 Mar 2005 00:30:10 -0800, "DaBergman" wrote:
Interesting. Thanks for the history. As I recall from the news, the building was not just for WWN. The anthrax letter was sent to the company that owns/ operates the Enquirer, Globe and WWN. My question is this- if the building was hit by anthrax, how come every OTHER publication based there was able to continue publishing EXCEPT for Cracked? They must have been having problems before that in terms of lack of funding or something. It's also possible that the other publications had backup files and materials in other offices. Cracked, being a relatively small operation, probably wouldn't have had any such contingencies. __________________________________ Life's a lot like a freak show, Nobody laughs when they leave. -The Residents, "Freak Show" |
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In article . com,
MadFan wrote: My freind subscribes to Cracked and got a letter in the mail a few weeks ago saying that the magazine was sold to a new bunch of owners and that they were going to bring it back as a MONTHLY by the fall of 2005. Does anyone have any info on this? I talked to the new owner (as of then) last summer at Wizard World. Same guy or not, I don't know. The website is still up. -- The All-New, All-Different Howling Curmudgeons! http://www.whiterose.org/howlingcurmudgeons |
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Thanks for posting this.
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In rec.arts.comics.strips DaBergman wrote:
I think we still need to dub Kulpa the "Stone-Cold CRACKED Killah"!!! You keep saying that. Is it supposed to be funny? -R -- Rob Wynne / The Autographed Cat / http://www.autographedcat.com/ / http://autographedcat.livejournal.com/ Gafilk 2006: Jan 6-8, 2006 -- Atlanta, GA -- http://www.gafilk.org/ |
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"D. D. Degg" wrote in message oups.com... My understanding is they had a tough go of it after the World Weekly News building had an anthrax attack. And yet, thank God, the WWN continues in its good work in solid investigative journalism. As a longtime WWN subscriber, I don't recall any significant interruption of service after the anthrax scare -- although I do recall, for a few week there, making my wife read it before I would touch it. |
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Well, it's funnier and better written than the stuff on your site.
But keep trying! |
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