Diamond Summit kicks off; Marvel holds “no press” presentation
Greeting from the Windy City. The Diamond Retailer Summit has returned to Chicago for the first time since 2013, and the event kicked off...
HAPPY: Diamond May Release End-of-Year Charts for 2016!
CORRECTION: Diamond MAy still release the charts! The misunderstanding was all Miller's but the status of the charts is still unknown. His calculations stand for...
Diamond: Marvel and Love is Love leads a flat December
Marvel led DC again in the ongoing Big Two battle, but overall numbers show that comics and GN sales in 2016 were essentially flat...
Full line-up of 2017 Free Comic Book Day titles released with two top secret...
The full line-up of titles for Free Comic Book Day 2017 has just been released, and there will be 38 Silver Sponsor titles in addtion...
2017 Gold Sponsor Free Comic Book Day Titles Announced
T'is the season for planning for free comics! Diamond has just released information on their 2017 Free Comic Book Day offerings. As is tradition,...
Sales Charts: Champions lead Marvel back to the top in October
Diamond has just released the sales rankings for October, and Boom's Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York #1 was the best selling periodcal,...
Sales Charts: DC leads Marvel for the third month in a row in September
September sales figures released by Diamond Comics distributors show DC holding on to its lead in both dollars and units, down a bit from August...
Diamond upgrades to ship “massive amounts of new product” and unveils fourth pick module
Sometimes the wonkiest things are the most important.
Diamond sent out news of its upgrades to the Olive Branch warehouse, with photos. And if you...
The state of the industry UPDATED AND CORRECTED
Those who think comics need to ditch the direct market right this minute had better not read the latest news about Barnes and Noble....
IDW moves to Penguin Random House for book distribution
Well now, this is interesting. IDW has moved its book distribution to Penguin Random House effective April 2017. ICv2 has all the enthusiastic quotes from executives at both companies, including a sad quote from Steve Geppi who owns Diamond Book Distribution, which formerly repped IDW to the book trade. DBD will continues to sell IDW products to the mass market in the UK. But this really makes PRHPS, which also distributes DC, a powerhouse player in the GN field.
WonderCon’16: Friday Morning Preview and visit from Mayor Eric Garcetti
By Nicholas Eskey
During the tail end of last year’s Wonder Con, it was announced that the convention which had spent the last three years...
Diamond Retailer Summit returns to Baltimore 8/31-9/2
Diamond's annual Retailer Summit will once again be held in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic Con this year. The summit takes place AUgust31/September 2...