Retailing & Marketing

How does gender break down for some of the more popular "indie" graphic novels versus mainstream graphic novels vs the average? And it's clear, there's a difference. Taking 17 various graphic novels (and if folks add suggestions in comments, I'll be happy to add upon this) I looked at men and women who were fans in the United States. I tried to stick to actual graphic novels, or books that have been long out of print and thus a complete graphic novel is how it's now consumed.

By Bruce Lidl Indie comics publisher Top Shelf announced yesterday that they will be selling a selection of their digital titles, without any DRM copy...

Or at least that's what a a wraparound ad on this week's Publishers Weekly states. (The ad in itself is a bold, pricey buy.) The...

How crazy is Mark Arsenault? Crazy enough to open a NEWSSTAND that sells cools comics and magazines, books, 'zines, vinyl and CDs. In other...

January was the cruelest month for comics sales, as the ICv2 headline starkly puts it: Only One Comic Above 100K. The one book was...

Noelle Stevenson aka Gingerhazing is the model of the modern cartoonist. While still in her early 20s (very early) she's built up a huge following via Tumblr and other social media, leading to a two book deal with Harper Collins for her webcomic Nimona, while continuing to pursue her online ventures, working on Adventure Time comics and so on.

While we don’t have any market research, the eyes don’t lie. If you go to conventions and comic book stores, more and more female...

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...