Not all comics shops: Brave New World
Brave New World Comics - The Pop Culture Superstore from Fe Bandana Pictures on Vimeo.
This is a little short film/advertisement that was made...
Free Comic Book Day 2014 news wrap-up
It was the international comic book holiday on Saturday, and based on reports we've heard, many individual stores had their best days ever—some drawing over 1000 people—and fans for lots of comics. And there was a ton of press, too, from just about everywhere, as the links below reveal. Congrats once again to Joe Field for coming up with one of the best ideas for promoting comics ever.
Coliseum of Comics opens sixth store in Tampa
New comics shop alert! Florida based Coliseum of Comics, which bills itself as the largest comics and collectibles retailer in the Southeast, is opening...
Marvel’s Tom Brevoort on the diminishing returns of relaunches
Brief and to the point -- over on his Formspring Tom Brevoort
was asked about Marvel's continued hammer-blows of relaunches,
Do you think the frequent...
Indie Bookstores are survivors, just like comics shops
Speaking of Amazology, Lauren Davis at io9 got right to the darkest conspiracy theories of all with a post titledWill Amazon Do To Comic...
Retailers can unlock The Woods secret cover
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...
Will Comixology go the way of Audible or Zappos?
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...
ComicsPRO responds to Comixology/Amazon deal
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...
What are the real secrets of Marvel’s Original Sin?
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...
New Comic Shop Day: Thirty-Eight Year Old Comics Shop Reopens One Month After Devastating...
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...
The state of comics retailing — and what it says about the Big Two
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...
Celebrate Hellboy Day with Comics or…chocolate
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...
