Survey: 3 ot of 4 comics shops have at least a quarter female customers
David Harper of Sktchd is at it again with the survey! This time it's comics retailers. The respondent base is only 25, so a...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
