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Marvel’s vice president of sales has blamed declining comic-book sales on the studio’s efforts to increase diversity and female characters, saying that readers “were turning their noses up” at diversity and “didn’t want female characters out there”. Over recent years, Marvel has made efforts to include more diverse and more female characters, introducing new iterations of fan favourites including a female Thor; Riri Williams, a black teenager who took over the Iron Man storyline as Ironheart; Miles Morales, a biracial Spider-Man and Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl who is the current Ms Marvel. But speaking at the Marvel retailer summit about the studio’s falling comic sales since October, David Gabriel told ICv2 that retailers had told him that fans were sticking to old favourites. “What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” he said. “They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not.” Published by : theguardian....

The first floor of the Centre for conventions and exhibitions in Hong Kong was already full when Lin have arrived at the opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, most important art fair in Asia. In the three years since I started buying art, Mr. Lin, a collector based in Beijing, and his wife, Wanwan Lei, both 28, have created a collection at the speed of lightning, the acquisition of more than 298 works. But to the previous view V.I.P. in the art fair in Hong Kong on Tuesday, neither Mr. Lin and the Sra Lei was in a mood to make quick decisions. In fact, some traders noted that the environment, in general, seemed more moderate than the last year, with a smaller number of collectors in attendance, especially in Europe and North America, and less frenetic first day of purchase - not entirely unexpected, given the recent economic slowdown in China. We just bought a couple of works at TEFAF, so don't we rush to buy anything here, Mr. Lin said, in reference to the European fair of fine arts thi...