Retailing & Marketing

As we reported a month ago, the Dragon's Lair in Omaha, Nebraska, had occupied the same building since 1976, until a recent fire elsewhere...

There's a big survey of retailers about current comics sales trends, ably put together by Shannon O'Leary up at Publishers Weekly today, called Despite...

March 22, 1994 was the debut of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1, the first appearance of Mike Mignola's now-iconic character. There have been special...

Dennis Barger Jr. of Wonderworld Comics in Detroit is known as one of the more...idiosyncratic comics retailers out there. He's still resolutely anti-digital for...

The 2014 ComicsPRO meeting wrapped up on Saturday and retailer/reporter Matt Price has, as always, a fine recap of what went on. Among...

Image Publisher Eric Stephenson delivered a speech to retailers this morning and here's the text, courtesy of Image comics: I hope you don’t mind if...

It's hard to remember those timid days when digital comics were a threat to civilization as we know it and not a solid revenue stream, but one of the artifacts of that era, Diamond Digital, has been laid to rest. This was a program whereby retailers, instead of licking 'em could join 'em by setting up their own digital storefronts via Diamond. It never really worked out, for various reasons including a long, protracted roll-out, and at one point Brian Hibbs reported he had made a grand total, net, of $22.89 in a year from the program.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that the building housing Dragon's Lair Comics and Treasure Mart Collectibles sustained nearly $300,000 in fire damage Sunday morning. The blaze...

How does gender break down for some of the more popular "indie" graphic novels versus mainstream graphic novels vs the average? And it's clear, there's a difference. Taking 17 various graphic novels (and if folks add suggestions in comments, I'll be happy to add upon this) I looked at men and women who were fans in the United States. I tried to stick to actual graphic novels, or books that have been long out of print and thus a complete graphic novel is how it's now consumed.

By Bruce Lidl Indie comics publisher Top Shelf announced yesterday that they will be selling a selection of their digital titles, without any DRM copy...

Or at least that's what a a wraparound ad on this week's Publishers Weekly states. (The ad in itself is a bold, pricey buy.) The...

How crazy is Mark Arsenault? Crazy enough to open a NEWSSTAND that sells cools comics and magazines, books, 'zines, vinyl and CDs. In other...