Retailing & Marketing

by Rosie Knight Over the last year I spent some time in comics retail, working at my favourite local comic shop, London's renowned Orbital Comics....

Welcome back to The Retailer’s View - a shambling look at the comic book industry through the lens of retail. My name is Brandon...

By Brian Hibbs   Welcome to Tilting at Windmills #252. Some of you will be scratching your heads and saying “Wait, doesn’t this appear on Comic...

ICV2 has one of its periodic high level chats, this time with DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, in two parts. They talk...

Industry analysis site ICv2 periodically runs a study of the Top 10 franchises in various categories and new ones are up for Spring 2015....

By Nicholas Eskey I didn’t need to attend this year’s DC Collectibles' Press Room to know that this is an exciting year for both DC...

Last night at bar con here at Comic-Con a bunch of industry pundits were sitting around trying to figure out some of the smartest...

We did it! We hit a billion! It's been a slow and steady climb, and took a lot of hard work from the whole team, as chronicled by both ICv2's Milton Griepp and Comichron's John Jackson Miller, but we made it.

If I told you a secret cabal of the comics industry's most important players had been working behind the scenes for years to implement an important change for how comics are sold, your ears would perk up, right? But if I told you this change was to get expanded BISAC codes for kids and YA graphic novels they'd probably perk right down again, right?

If you're ready to take a breather from the comic book culture wars, a couple of articles this week examined various vital aspects of...

I wrote about this in my link round up the other day, but I wanted to give it it's own item just as a...

A few days ago ReedPOP announced a new "Fan Verification" system for buying tickets for NYCC. ReedPOP head Lance Fensterman told us the system was in order to combat scalping, but also to get more of a snapshot of who wants to attend New York Comic-Con. Getting "verified" is key because online sales is the only way to buy NYCC badges this year. In the past there were some on site and retail sales but no more.