Retailing & Marketing

Titan Comics have really impressed with their creative and strange promotional tactics. From issuing military files which explained the details of their series 'Chronos...

Book Expo America happens every year, and I take time off from work to wander Javits to see what's new and interesting (this year's...

We hope you're enjoying our cornucopia of webcomics from our big 24 Hours of Webcomics event. If you're in New York City and want to pick up some print versions of these comics—or even some non webcomics—the store once known as "Hanley's" is now called JHU Comic Books is having a sale.

Fangrabs is a comics rental site. You pick up the books in your queue have them mailed to you, you read em and mail em back. Just like Netflix. They have over 6,500 titles to choose from, including manga, Walking Dead, DC, Marvel. etc. Several plans are available, including $15 for two books a month and unlimited plans starting at $20 a month.

While we've been reporting a mini-trend of good news on comics shop openings of late, there is also attrition, as we've just learned that...

Following in the steps of a recent micro-trend, another comics shop has opened, the Spider's Web at 887A Yonkers Ave in Yonkers, NY. According to this earlier story, its run by Paul Borrero, a longtime collector and Spder-Man fan who felt the area needed a place for kids and adults to collect comics.

by Eric Stephenson Just a word of warning: This is going to seem like I’m all over the place at first, but trust me, it...

Holding panels in the wood-panelled bowels of the Armory this year at MoCCA Fest did bring a certain gravitas to the proceedings even if...

Diamond reports that for the last two years, their number of accounts has gone up by 1% each year—a tiny amount, to be sure, but at least it isn't falling. Here's some recent stories about NEW stores opening up, and one old one reopening—proof that indie bookstores and comics are not domed quite yet.

ComiXology’s Chip Mosher of Marketing and PR moderated a panel with Jeremy Atkins of Dark Horse, Dirk Wood of IDW, Mel Caylo of Archaia,...

Mike Molcher is the PR Co-ordinator for Rebellion, meaning he is the man directly responsible for promoting their comics, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine....

More free comics are being given away than ever before! Diamond has announced that 4.6 million free comics were ordered for this year's Free Comic Book Day, to be held Saturday, May 4th. That's up from 3,500,000 in 2012 and 2,700,000 in 2011.