Tilting at Windmills #258: The dirty secret about variants no one talks about
Variant covers are an accepted practice in comics publishing and collecting, but is Diamond enforcing its own rules on minimum orders? Retailer Brian Hibbs looks at the plusses and minuses of the world of variants.
A new comics distributor rises in Seattle, Emerald Comics Distro
It's Tony Shenton, not Diamond, who's getting some competition from this one woman start up.
The Retailer’s View // Should Printed Single Issues Go Away?
Our story begins a few years ago, when I was still managing another comic shop in the city. A man walked into the store,...
Marvel Reveals More Details of Their Tech for Retailers Project
We asked Marvel a few questions about their plans to use GeoTargeted digital advertising to drive customer into comic shops and here's what we...
Valiant Cranks Up Giveaways and Retailer Contests for X-0 Manowar’s Return
X-O Manowar was the flagship title for Valiant's launch and as they're bringing it back, they're bringing a fairly deep promotional package with it....
Gigantic Hasbro Decepticon Transformer Revealed and more on The Beat’s (Sort of) Weekly Funko...
After this weekend’s 2017 Toy Fair, ours and many other website have been a flutter with toy news. With such heavy internet traffic, there...
ComicsPRO: Boom!’s Filip Sablik announces new full returnability program
As we've told you before, the annual ComicsPRO meeting is going on right now, hence the steady flow of news. Boom! Studios president of publishing and...
ComicsPRO: Comics sales up 0.3% in 2o16, industry could Make Mine Marvel again
Comics sales barely went up last year, as Diamond reported an overall 0.3% rise in comics and GNs in 2016. The figures were part of...
ComicsPro meeting is happening now, future of industry to be decided
The annual ComicsPRo meeting is taking place in Memphis as I write this, a gathering of comics retailers and ann the most important vendors and...
Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find Moving to New, Bigger Store
https://twitter.com/heroesonline/status/830097383493160960
Heroes Aren't Hard to Find, Charlotte NC's iconic and groundbreaking comics shop, is moving to a new location in "NoDa." As I am not...
The Retailer’s View // Do Retailers Dream of Lenticular Sheep?
It’s the beginning of a new month, which means retailers have just sent another batch of initial orders off to Diamond to butcher, and...
The Retailer’s View // The Flood
Welcome to the end of the world as we know it. Walk with me into the maw of the abyss, dear friends. It’s time to talk comics retail in 2017.
