The Retailer’s View // Light It Up
The Retailer's View returns with a warning about the future of the comics industry... and a look at what can hopefully be done to fix it.
The Man Behind Homestuck: An Interview with Andrew Hussie
With the release of his massive hit webcomic hitting the bookshelves, I had the opportunity to speak with Andrew Hussie, the elusive and hilarious creator of Homestuck, one of the most ambitious and interactive...
Watch Diamond Founder Steve Geppi’s keynote speech
Diamond has posted Steve Geppi's keynote speech from the 2018 Retailer Summit.
Notes from a summit Day 1: “Our retail partners”
Who invented the phrase “our retail partners”? At every presentation at yesterday’s Diamond summit, publishers over and over again spoke about “our retail partners” and “working with you to sell more comics.” I asked...
Live from the Retailer Summit Day 0: “It feels like the 90s again.”
As the 2018 Diamond Summit kicked off, retailes enjoyed tiki drinks and rememebred shops that had been lost along the way.
Diamond Retailer Summit kicks off with 400 retailers and a Steve Geppi keynote speech
\More than 500 attendees, including 400+ retailers representing 230 stores will attend the Diamond Retailer Summit that kicks off today.
Now that you’ve read about BookScan, you might want to read ‘The Inevitable Direct...
So a lot of people are reading Brian Hibb's yearly BookScan analysis and saying it backs up what we've been saying about the change in comics sales patterns. Certainly, the generally healthy sales do...
Help New York’s JHU Comics Shop stay in Manhattan and move into a new...
When I first saw that JHU, the famed NYC comics shop, had a GoFundMe up and was asking for help my heart sank. JHU - the descendant of Jim Hanley's Universe, is one of...
A retailer’s view at ComicsPRO: Recovering from a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad...
by Jacob Shapiro
The internet sure loves muckraking, so when I decided to throw some shade at Marvel for their ComicsPro presentation in Portland last week, Comics Twitter lit me up. Reflecting back on Marvel’s...
Report: Marvel doesn’t want anyone taking notes about their fresh start and more ComicsPRO...
Marvel's very secret presentation and the return of Dinesh Shamdasani
Diamond adds digital pull list service, revamps Previews and sees DC leave the catalog
Here's more of that 2018 industry change: DC secedes from Previews, and Diamond announces its own PULLBOX system.
