Retailing & Marketing

Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  It's covered to death by the media, analyzed relentlessly by Wall Street, and now rivals Thanksgiving...

Keep refreshing for more! • Colleen Doran is offering Sandman bookmarks with original art and rare book sets. Proceeds go the new edition of...

Keep refreshing for more! • Colleen Doran is offering Sandman bookmarks with original art and rare book sets. Proceeds go the new edition of...

I'll be posting a list of gift books in the next few days, so I'm doing some research over on Books.com, sorting graphic novels...

While The Beatrix is down South for a a comics convention, I'm back home in Omaha, Nebraska, spending Turkey Week with family and friends....

Marvel has announced it is turning to radio to advertise its Marvel NOW! initiative. This follows in the footsteps of DC's use of cable...

While we're not privy to the local scene, based on this, it seems that LA's popular Secret Headquarters comics shop has officially opened a...

For those with long memories, yesterday's announcement of 52 different covers for next year's JLA #1 book sounded some alarm bells.

Is this the magic moment? Probably. Or as a recent ICv2 headline put it:Comic Retailers Cautiously Ecstatic, following the "Return of the Pamphlet." Despite the innate caution, pessimism and low self-image endemic to the comics industry, it seems that following a year of improved sales, general awareness, mainstream recognition and booming live events, the comics industry has taken a moment to kick back the recliner and crack open a frosty one:

I know, I know! We have been arguing for such a long time that comics aren’t just for kids but the problem is that a majority of the comics publishers have neglected to realize that this is and will always be tomorrow’s adult comics fan. With the acceleration of the Children’s and Young Adult categories, the traditional publishers are dominating a market segment that for some reason, still isn’t registering with the folks who made it possible in the first place.

Whereas for some groups, it's Olivia Munn or Adrienne Curry who might be a a draw, for comic book retailers, DC's VP of Sales...

At the Diamond Retailer appreciation breakfast this morning, after being forced to surrender phones and become sequestered behind a blast shield door, attendees...