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The New York Post reports that in addition to falling advertising revenues, magazines must now deal with an added seven cent surcharge from their newsstand distributors: Anderson News earlier this week informed publishers that it...

After getting some brickbats for shortages of the Obama Spidey comic, Marvel did something yesterday that made comics retailers very, very happy, by announcing that THE STAND graphic novel would be made available...

We're sorta pressed for time today because of a conflicting deadline but wanted to draw your attention to two comments, in case you didn't wanna go there. First, Carr D'Angelo of Earth-2 in Sherman...

Newsarama reports what we've been hearing all morning: Wizard World is canceling their Los Angeles and Dallas shows. WizardWorld LA was scheduled for March 13-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center; and Dallas for...

Much anxiety yesterday when it was announced that the company which owns popular blog/social network LiveJournal had laid off much of its staff. The fact that the company is owned by a mysterious Russian...

Brian Hibbs , owner of SF's Comix Experience, charts his store's top sellers of the year -- he can easily do this because he has a POS system, remember? You can read the whole...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1UTwEA790&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] BOOM! Studios sent along links to two videos talking about their promotions for HEXED, a new series which will have a retailer incentive, full returnability AND day-and-date release on MySpace. Here's a transcript...

Peter Brookes, editorial cartoonist at Times of London, is one of my cartoonists interviewed at Bloomberg about the state of editorial cartooning worldwide. Of course, the recession is on everyone's mind -- but does...

With the happy holidaze over, everyone is back to fretting over the economy, which makes total sense, since the economy pretty much nuked the holidays if you were a retailer. John Jackson Miller is...

Along with everything else in the world, the future of manga in the US is being examined -- not that it's going anywhere, but a few of the weaker companies may get picked off...

Aaron Albert attempts to break down the cost per minute of such forms of entertainment as movies and comics, and comics come out a bit spendy. I think there are many reasons. Comic books...

Just to keep the holiday spirit going, here's a roundup of recession rumbling from the comics world: • Rick Veitch notes that he has received a notice from Diamond indicating that "offered again" items will...