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...
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...
