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Nick Landau
Nick Landau is a British entertainment entrepreneur. He co-owns Titan Entertainment, with his partner Vivian Cheung, which comprises the Forbidden Planet Limited store chain and Titan Publishing Group.
A lifelong science-fiction, comics and movie fan, Landau’s career has spanned retail, publishing, distribution, theatre production, web TV production and convention organising.
Landau’s first involvement in comics fandom was in 1968 when he attended the very first British Comic Art Convention (known as Comicon), held in Birmingham.
In 1971, Landau established Comic Media magazine, in order to interview comic-book creators and bring news and features to a nascent British comics fandom.
Landau was joined the following year by Richard Burton, with whom he built a group of magazines, including Comic Media News (later taken over solely by Burton) and Comic Catalogue (a “buy and sell” magazine for the comics industry).
In August 1972, Landau organised Comicon '72, the fifth ever British Comic Art Convention. Later that year, 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. In 1977, Richard Burton and retailer Mike Conroy set up the Eagle Awards, with Landau coming on board shortly after, prior to Conroy’s departure. Burton and Landau grew the Eagle Awards into an international comics industry event supported by the world’s major comics publishers. Landau continued to be involved with the Awards into the late 1980s.
From fall 1972 to summer 1975, Landau attended Warwick University to study for a degree in Management Science. Whilst there he founded the Warwick University Television Society, and built their Film Society into one of the largest student-run organisations in the country, which ultimately won “film society of the year” in the UK.
From fall 1975 to spring 1977, 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. In addition to producing television drama and documentaries during this year, Landau directed Six Inch Nails and Baling String, a documentary about a UK circus in decline.
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Nick Landau
Nick Landau is a British entertainment entrepreneur. He co-owns Titan Entertainment, with his partner Vivian Cheung, which comprises the Forbidden Planet Limited store chain and Titan Publishing Group.
A lifelong science-fiction, comics and movie fan, Landau’s career has spanned retail, publishing, distribution, theatre production, web TV production and convention organising.
Landau’s first involvement in comics fandom was in 1968 when he attended the very first British Comic Art Convention (known as Comicon), held in Birmingham.
In 1971, Landau established Comic Media magazine, in order to interview comic-book creators and bring news and features to a nascent British comics fandom.
Landau was joined the following year by Richard Burton, with whom he built a group of magazines, including Comic Media News (later taken over solely by Burton) and Comic Catalogue (a “buy and sell” magazine for the comics industry).
In August 1972, Landau organised Comicon '72, the fifth ever British Comic Art Convention. Later that year, 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. In 1977, Richard Burton and retailer Mike Conroy set up the Eagle Awards, with Landau coming on board shortly after, prior to Conroy’s departure. Burton and Landau grew the Eagle Awards into an international comics industry event supported by the world’s major comics publishers. Landau continued to be involved with the Awards into the late 1980s.
From fall 1972 to summer 1975, Landau attended Warwick University to study for a degree in Management Science. Whilst there he founded the Warwick University Television Society, and built their Film Society into one of the largest student-run organisations in the country, which ultimately won “film society of the year” in the UK.
From fall 1975 to spring 1977, 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. In addition to producing television drama and documentaries during this year, Landau directed Six Inch Nails and Baling String, a documentary about a UK circus in decline.