Retailing & Marketing

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! First Bergen Street and Now Locust Moon, another comics shop that had great taste and led the way to a wider view of comics...

Google dips a toe back into the digital comics game with a new scrolling viewing method and upgraded storefront for Google Play...oh and some free comics!

If you are located near Homewood, IL, and want to get started as a comics shop owner, Craig's list has what you want listed...

By Victor Van Scoit The San Francisco Bay Area has some fantastic comic book shops, with each having its own take for hosting creator events....

One of the more intriguing developments in recent years in comics retailing has been the resurgence of comics sales in national book chains. Yes...

Walmart.com has a graphic novel section, with many superhero titles, but also media adaptations and some kids comics. Many publishers have attempted to enter the world of Walmart, and some have been accepted only to be rejected when someone actually reads them and see they are filled with sex and drugs and maybe some violence. But as of now, you can buy Powr Mastrs 4 on the Walmart website for a mere $14.23, with free shipping.

Every Wednesday, I talk about comics with Brandon Montclare, writer of the hit Image series Rocket Girl and co-writer of Marvel’s upcoming Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur series. We gab about...

This week’s edition of The Retailer’s View is going to be slightly different than most - while most of the time, I’m writing these...

Ain't art grand?

We're entering a period of disruption, if we're not already well into it. Is it something in the air, an upcoming election, the increasing consolidation of big media/big tech, millennials taking over? Probably all of that. And how does that affect comics? Of late the "slow patch" hit by direct market periodicals due to faltering by the Big Two seems to have cast all of this into discussion. Kate Leth, a creator and also a former comics shop employee, has a much linked to post about the direct market process which talks about how pre-ordering is key in what she calls a "system [that] is so deeply twisted":

Attention good Samaritans: a small Portland based hybrid cafe and comic book store needs your help to re-open after a vandal raided and robbed...

Every Wednesday, I sit down with Brandon Montclare, writer of the hit Image series Rocket Girl and co-writer of Marvel's upcoming Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur series....