Retailing & Marketing

DC's sudden announcement of digital codes as a bonus in comics priced at $3.99 seems to be a clear dig at Marvel's dropping this...

Just a quick note: Diamond has an advisory up that the slipcased March trilogy edition is still available from them, although it's sold out...

  Yesterday this tweet from Spirit of Retailing award winner Packrat Comics was going around: https://twitter.com/Packrat_Comics/status/818961318694809600 with a cosign from Atlas comics https://twitter.com/AtlasComics/status/819004717065977856 "Pull lists" are really a symptom...

An SUV crashed through the front of the comics store The DeeP Comics & Games in HUntsville, AL. The driver suffered a seizure behind...

Marvel's weekly mailer to retailers went out today and buried in it was a little item that read as follows: 10% EXTRA FOR FREE ON...

January is a tough time in retail, as people try to pay the bills from Christmas. And as you know if you've been paying...

§ Nice Art: François Vigneault made a downloadable, printable calendar for 2017 in both French and English. I desperately need to print this out...

Yesterday's piece on current retail issues in comics by Todd Allen drew a lot of attention and kicked off a lot of discussion. Some...

  Let's round-up all the sale charts we can, shall we? ICv2 numbers are out and show sales slippage: Comics and graphic novel sales to North American...

  T'is the season for planning for free comics! Diamond has just released information on their 2017 Free Comic Book Day offerings. As is tradition,...

Are comics sales slipping or stagnating as we enter 2017? Some signs point to yes, as you can see from the November sales figures released earlier today. While the sales decline earlier in the year has been reversed to a net positive thanks to the Rebirth surge, as retailers Joe Field of Flying Colors tweeted earlier this week, there is a sense of worry out there.

By Brian Hibbs   Despite now being in retail for over thirty years now, I have to admit that there are times that I worry about...