How many comics shops are there? Diamond had 2,638 accounts in September 2013
How many comic shops are there in the US? In the late '80s/early '90s, numbers like 8,000 were thrown around, but the great Distribution...
Facebook Demographics: How many women read graphic novels?
And speaking of reaching new audiences, Brett Schenker has been continuing his studies into Facebook's comics demographics, and has some very interesting info. He's...
Dark Horse moves to Random House for book distribution
Here's a pretty huge story that kind of slipped below the radar yesterday: Dark Horse Book has shifted from Diamond to Random House for...
DeForge’s Kid Mafia to be reprinted by Secret Headquarters
Three-time 2013 Ignatz Winner Michael DeForge is a prolific cartoonist -- very prolific. So if you're wondering just which strip is Kid Mafia, it's...
First ICv2 Conference 2013 details announced
HYPE AERT: Each year Milton Griepp presents his ICv2 Conference the day before New York Comic-Con, including his White Paper on the State of the...
More on the Facebook demographics that reveal a surprising number of female comics fans
By Brett Schenker
Two years and some months ago, I posted the first study of what Facebook told us about comic book fans. 45 or...
Mark Waid becomes a comics retailer
Over the holiday, Mark Waid announced that he is crossing the last frontier of comics prodom by becoming a partner in his local comics...
Online graphic novel price war underway
ICv2 reports on Overstock.com's price war with Amazon. Basically the online retailer is matching Amazon's deep discounts on books—despite losing money on these discounts—in an effort to become more of an alternative to Amazon.
Nearly 50% of the comic book market consists of variant covers
Although this is the best time in recent comics history for sales and quality, the current sales success doesn't come without an asterisk: the...
CLiNT Magazine Flames Out
Over on CBR, Titan publishing have announced that CLiNT magazine - the one established by Mark Millar, which was to promote and expand his...
The Retail View: DC’s 3-D’oh
by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics
Growing up, I wasn’t very good at complicated Math. I’ve got the basics, I can balance a checkbook and...
Retailer Brian Hibbs quits ComicPRO, but it wasn’t over DC Villains allocation
In a comment on his post regarding DC's allocation of their Villains month promotion, veteran retailer Brian Hibbs mentioned that he had quit the...
