In 1971, Nick Landau established Comic Media magazine, in order to interview comic-book creators and bring news and features to a nascent British comics fandom.
18 Facts About Nick Landau
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Nick Landau was joined the following year by Richard Burton, with whom he built a group of magazines, including Comic Media News and Comic Catalogue.
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Later that year, Nick Landau created the London Comic Mart, a one-day event held at Lyndhurst Hall that attracted around 250 attendees, which later expanded into significantly larger events at the Royal Horticultural Hall and Central Hall Westminster and ran through to 1978.
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In 1977, Richard Burton and retailer Mike Conroy set up the Eagle Awards, with Nick Landau coming on board shortly after, prior to Conroy's departure.
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Burton and Nick Landau grew the Eagle Awards into an international comics industry event supported by the world's major comics publishers.
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Nick Landau continued to be involved with the Awards into the late 1980s.
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From fall 1972 to summer 1975, Nick Landau attended Warwick University to study for a degree in Management Science.
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From fall 1975 to spring 1977, Nick Landau studied for a postgraduate qualification in film and television production at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, with the intention of forging a career in television.
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Nick Landau was a vocal supporter of Seuling's initiative and Comic Media Distribution Service became Seuling's first international customer.
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Mills was planning on resigning once 2000 AD had become established, and following the interview, had decided that Nick Landau would make a suitable chief sub-editor, saying:.
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Nick Landau was clearly an exceptional person and I knew he would be of great value, but [IPC publisher John] Sanders rightly regarded most comic fans with deep suspicion, irrelevant to a mainstream undertaking.
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When Nick Landau arrived at IPC Magazines, he found himself assigned to their controversial weekly comic Action.
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When Mills stepped down at 2000 AD after sixteen issues, replaced by Kelvin Gosnell, Nick Landau was brought in as Gosnell's chief sub-editor.
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Gosnell was overwhelmed by the amount of work needed to launch 2000 AD's new sister title Starlord, and Nick Landau took up the slack.
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The last straw for Nick Landau was when Gosnell returned from an IPC board meeting where the Heroes name was jettisoned in favour of Tornado.
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From summer 1978 to spring 1979, Nick Landau combined his role at IPC with running Forbidden Planet, before focusing full-time on Forbidden Planet.
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Nick Landau became sole owner of Titan Books and the Forbidden Planet mega stores ; Luckman became sole owner of Forbidden Planet's New York store.
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Nick Landau set up the Titan Entertainment in 1993 with Vivian Cheung, his business partner and wife.