Image Comics Partners with PREVIEWS to Announce IMAGE+ Magazine
Talk about some stunning Friday night news! At ComicsPRO tonight, Image Comics announced that they would be partnering up with Diamond to launch Image+,...
Where Were the Creators For DC’s Relaunch?
Announcing how frequently your new titles ship, but not who the creators are says a lot about priorities...
“I love this world but there’s something missing” – DC gets back into its...
In his video introducing DC's Rebirth publishing plan, Geoff Johns calls it a "third rebirth" for DC. At first I thought this referred to the original DC, Silver age Flash and...something else? But he was actually referring to reimagining Green Lantern and the Flash characters with better, more motivated origins. Perhaps more accurately, from an external viewpoint, its the third rebirth of DC in the Diane Nelson era, following the New 52, DCYou and now a new line based on core characters. Or as he put it, in the video's most quoted line, "It's not just an event, it's a mission for us."
IDW hires Joel Elad as Direct Market Sales Manager
Comics are hiring! At least in the sales departments. IDW has announced Joel Elad has been hired as their Direct Market Sales Manager to work drectly with comics shops and manage their retailer variants programs. Elad was formerly at his own NewComix.Com, and Top Cow.
ComicsPRO underway in Portland—is DC’s Rebirth on the agenda?
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ComicsPRO, the annual meeting of the top retailers organization in North America, is taking place in Portland, OR for the next three days, with...
The CBLDF is moving to Portland, OR
At the ComicsPRO meeting this morning, it was just announced that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is moving it's offices from New York...
BOOM! Studios Celebrates 100,000 Retailer Sold Copies with MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK
They fought off monsters, piloted giant robots and netted 100,000 advance units sold to comic book stores! That's nothing to scoff at nowadays in...
Archie’s Fan-Favorite Horror Comics Rise from the Dead this Summer
Archie had something of a creative renaissance when the publisher launched Afterlife with Archie in October of 2013 with Archie Creative Chief Officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Spider-Man) on...
RIP Alvin Buenaventura
Over the weekend news of Alvin Buenaventura's passing was confirmed. Buenaventura was 40 and as the publisher of first Buenaventura Press then Pigeon Press...
The Marvel Rundown: Comics and Television Collide in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Personal confession time. Over the past 15+ weeks I have reviewed each and every #1 in the ongoing Marvel All-New, All-Different Universe...except for one....
Dynamite adds Patrick O’Connell as sales manager
Dynamite is staffing up! They recently hired Alan Payne and had just added Patrick O'Connell as sales manager; and I hear a few more hires re on the way, many of them the result of DC's west coast move freeing up a lot of talented people.
Full Circle: DC celebrates The New 52 with 52nd issue tribute covers
"52" is the lucky number at DC Comics, and with the (once) New 52 reaching their 52nd issues, it's time to celebrate with a series of variant covers, because as far as we know, a NEWER 52 might be on the way.
