Retailing & Marketing

Bergen Street Comics owner Tom Adams made a brief Twitter announcement the other night about changing his business model for Marvel and DC periodicals...

Sue at DC Women Kicking Ass has a post on the fruits of that WB/Target licensing deal that was announced last year, with emphasis...

Children's book illustrator and sometime cartooner Jed Alexander read my piece on top selling graphic novels the other day, and spun it off into...

Does sex really sell? We all know it does, but marketing dude Spencer Chen has a post at Techcrunch that suggests Booth Babes Don’t...

by Bruce Lidl Last week’s 2014 edition of the ImageExpo has generated a large amount of coverage for both new title announcements, and for the...

Guatemala just got its first comics shop. And filmmaker George Clipp made a short film about it.

Remember what I was just saying about how if Marvel made any money selling periodicals in bookstores, they would never have stopped the program?...

Marvel is no longer selling periodical comics to Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million, the two largest chain book stores. Good-Ereader confirmed this with employes...

by Gina Gagliano There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over the original graphic novel format recently – people have been talking about whether doing...

Marvel edged out DC for sales, but DC had a strong 1-2 punch in the top comics for November with Batman and, surprisingly, the...

Veteran Bay Area retailer Brian Hibbs, of Comix Experience, Savage Critics, and Tilting at Windmills fame just announced something pretty momentous: he's acquired a second store by purchasing the assets of Comic Outpost, Hibbs will take over running the sore on Monday December 16th. ON a FB ppst he added, "I have nothing but good things to say about owner Gary Buechler, and I think that store is a great testament to his love and passion for comics! I'm going to work hard to match that passion."

It's a rite of Spring. Every May people race to the comics shop for the annual comic book holiday—Free Comics Book Day. In 2014,...