Retailing & Marketing

We've been having a lot of coverage of Booms! Lumberjanes this week, but the next hot book from Boom is likely to be The...

The great digital hope has been acquired by one of the giant fire breathing kaiju of the digital era. Will they trample tiny cottages beneath their feet or become a lovable behemoth? Ask me in a year. In the meantime... First off, will you be able to read your comics? A story at the Guardian indicates yes...but...

With all kinds of concerns running rampant today about what Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means for the comics industry, ComicsPRO, the retailers organization, has...

Despite my previous move towards being chipper, there are still some distress signals out there. Marvel's full court press on their next event, Original...

As we reported a month ago, the Dragon's Lair in Omaha, Nebraska, had occupied the same building since 1976, until a recent fire elsewhere...

There's a big survey of retailers about current comics sales trends, ably put together by Shannon O'Leary up at Publishers Weekly today, called Despite...

March 22, 1994 was the debut of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1, the first appearance of Mike Mignola's now-iconic character. There have been special...

Dennis Barger Jr. of Wonderworld Comics in Detroit is known as one of the more...idiosyncratic comics retailers out there. He's still resolutely anti-digital for...

The 2014 ComicsPRO meeting wrapped up on Saturday and retailer/reporter Matt Price has, as always, a fine recap of what went on. Among...

Image Publisher Eric Stephenson delivered a speech to retailers this morning and here's the text, courtesy of Image comics: I hope you don’t mind if...

It's hard to remember those timid days when digital comics were a threat to civilization as we know it and not a solid revenue stream, but one of the artifacts of that era, Diamond Digital, has been laid to rest. This was a program whereby retailers, instead of licking 'em could join 'em by setting up their own digital storefronts via Diamond. It never really worked out, for various reasons including a long, protracted roll-out, and at one point Brian Hibbs reported he had made a grand total, net, of $22.89 in a year from the program.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that the building housing Dragon's Lair Comics and Treasure Mart Collectibles sustained nearly $300,000 in fire damage Sunday morning. The blaze...