SDCC ’15: Getting Up Close with Entertainment Earth
By Nick Eskey
When it comes to collectible toys and popular media merchandise, Entertainment Earth has just about everything. The company first started nearly twenty years ago out of an office and a garage in...
The Retailer’s View // Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
The internet will surely be the death of me.
It will probably be somebody saying some petty racist stuff that will do it. My eyes will fall across a bile filled screed about how people...
DC Comics Available for the First Time on Public Library App Hoopla
In their struggle to stay relevant in the technology-obsessed 21st century, many public libraries have turned towards e-book services to keep membership levels high. Historically, comic book publishers have been slow to embrace digital...
The Loot Crate Effect Reaches “Cartoonish Levels” on Comics Sales
Note: The distribution numbers used below are estimates, not hard sales numbers. They're accurate to the trends, but take the exact unit measurements with a small grain of salt.
Recently, Comichron released Diamond distribution numbers...
Barnes & Noble Announces “Get Pop-Cultured” Events for July!
They did it last year, and had some success (I've only heard rumors... B&N doesn't give out attendance figures), so Barnes & Noble once again are hosting "Get Pop-Cultured", a month-long series of pop...
The Retailer’s View // Opening Daze
As I’m writing this, it’s Sunday and things are slow. At my former place of employment, Sundays were one of our busier days - people tend to have the day off, and wander into...
Listen to all the panels, facts and figures from last week’s conference on French...
You all loved it when I tweeted stats, and now you can watch the ENTIRE panel section of last week's French Comics Conference, held at the French Embassy and organized by Bureau International de...
Exclusive: Titan’s Doctor Who Comics Day poster art from series artist Neil Edwards
The folks at Titan are really teasing their upcoming three four Doctor crossover story line from Hugo-nominated Who writer Paul Cornell, slated for release on August 12 ahead of their second annual Doctor Who Comics Day on August 15. On Monday, Diamond revealed the poster art to advertise the upcoming Doctor Who Comics Day event to their retailers. Drawn by series artist Neil Edwards (Justice League United), you'll be seeing the art in local comic shops in the near future, but allow us to leak that to you now, Whovians
DC unveils “DC You” marketing campaign
There had to be a reason the new West Coast Dc hired all those branding, licensing and content managers. It's to create a new branding message and it is..."DC You." Which sounds like it...
The Retailer’s View // Bridging A Gap With The Archie Kickstarter
So I launched a comic store on Free Comic Book Day. It was quite the trick, trying to get things ready for the day with things exploding all around. We had ordered a point...
MATT CHATS: “Lord Retail” on Selling Comics, Dealing with Digital and a Lot More
This is MATT CHATS, a weekly interview series with people involved in the making, publishing or selling comics. This week I spoke to someone in that last category. Jermaine Exum (a.k.a. “Lord Retail") is...
Comic Book Heaven: meet the crankiest old comics shop owner maybe ever
Joe Leisner, the 80 year old former owner of Comic Book Heaven, a comics shop in Sunnyside Queens and the star of the above short film, is a character. An authentic New York character, as they say, and someone who's been running a comics shop for 50 years, long before it became fashionable. So long that having a Shrek poster hanging in his store, or pondering the price of an issue of Moby Duck is the same to him as the latest Convergence title. If you watched the film,, you'll definitely see a comics shop as it once was, and many still are: a little messy and timelost, a kingdom of ragged long boxes, but a friendly place for the regulars.
