Retailing & Marketing

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...

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...