The retail view: Crescent City Comics Leo McGovern on Villains Month allocation: “ridiculous”
by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics
Greetings and salutations, Beat-readers! My name is Leo McGovern and I manage a comic shop in New Orleans, Louisiana...
DC’s Villains Month 3D covers to be allocated; retailers to be aggravated
This news has been buzzing around for a bit and was apparently a topic of some discussion at this weekend's Boston Comic-Con, but now...
SDCC13: Watchtower: Mainstream Media Edition
Well, once again, we are repainting the kitchen to hide the stains we couldn't clean, the comics cellar is being refiled, the liquor bottles...
Buddy Saunders turns over three stores to new owners
Lone Star Comics, a five-store comic shop chain located in northern Texas, is known as one of the most venerable and successful comics shops...
A Lazy Comics Summer Weekend
Many decades ago, I would wander far and wide to get my comics.
Sometimes it was a magazine rack at a small town grocery store.
Othertimes,...
INTERVIEW: Box Brown Announces New DIstribution Deal for Retrofit Comics
Box Brown ("Belen!", "Love is a Peculiar Kind of Thing") is a fixture at indie comics shows, tirelessly producing his own bold and appealing...
Nice Art: Darwyn Cooke’s Ghost Variant for FATALE #15
Darwyn Cooke has created a "Ghost Variant" cover for FATALE #15. You can purchase it only at these shops.
Although shrouded in a bit of...
Midtown Comics Announces Wednesday comics delivery via Zipments
The Wednesday crowd may just be a stay-at-home crowd for some Manhattan readers. Midtown Comics has partneredwith Zipments, an on demand NYC delivery network...
DiDio: appearance of turmoil at DC is caused by social media
DC is holding four "retailer roadshows" over the next few weeks to boost retailer confidence and tell them what's coming up. If you were...
Starting today! SelfMadeHero take over Bloomsbury for two weeks
For the next two weeks, UK publisher SelfMadeHero will be creating a pop-up shop in Bloomsbury, London. Running every weekday until the end of...
Retailers reveal their surprise sellers
Well, here's a feature on Parallel Worlds, the new NY Post comics site, that we'll be reading every week: Ask A Retailer surveys locals...
Comics shop tally: two close, one opens, one expands
This is a two steps back, one step forward thing with two veteran comics shops closing, one new one opening, and one established store...
