Retailing & Marketing

Midtown Comics Announces Wednesday comics delivery via Zipments

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The Wednesday crowd may just be a stay-at-home crowd for some Manhattan readers. Midtown Comics has partneredwith Zipments, an on demand NYC delivery network...

DiDio: appearance of turmoil at DC is caused by social media

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DC is holding four "retailer roadshows" over the next few weeks to boost retailer confidence and tell them what's coming up. If you were...

Starting today! SelfMadeHero take over Bloomsbury for two weeks

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For the next two weeks, UK publisher SelfMadeHero will be creating a pop-up shop in Bloomsbury, London. Running every weekday until the end of...

Retailers reveal their surprise sellers

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Well, here's a feature on Parallel Worlds, the new NY Post comics site, that we'll be reading every week: Ask A Retailer surveys locals...

Comics shop tally: two close, one opens, one expands

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This is a two steps back, one step forward thing with two veteran comics shops closing, one new one opening, and one established store...

Titan offers the Suicide Girls a Death Sentence

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Titan Comics have really impressed with their creative and strange promotional tactics. From issuing military files which explained the details of their series 'Chronos...

Book-Con! Lots of Great New Graphic Novels at Book Expo America!

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Book Expo America happens every year, and I take time off from work to wander Javits to see what's new and interesting (this year's...

Retail report: JHU Comic Books is having a sale in its new location

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We hope you're enjoying our cornucopia of webcomics from our big 24 Hours of Webcomics event. If you're in New York City and want to pick up some print versions of these comics—or even some non webcomics—the store once known as "Hanley's" is now called JHU Comic Books is having a sale.

Fangrabs aims to be the Netflix for comics

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Fangrabs is a comics rental site. You pick up the books in your queue have them mailed to you, you read em and mail em back. Just like Netflix. They have over 6,500 titles to choose from, including manga, Walking Dead, DC, Marvel. etc. Several plans are available, including $15 for two books a month and unlimited plans starting at $20 a month.

Manhattan Comics closes

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While we've been reporting a mini-trend of good news on comics shop openings of late, there is also attrition, as we've just learned that...

Retail Beat: A store opens in Yonkers; proposal in Alternate Reality Comics

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Following in the steps of a recent micro-trend, another comics shop has opened, the Spider's Web at 887A Yonkers Ave in Yonkers, NY. According to this earlier story, its run by Paul Borrero, a longtime collector and Spder-Man fan who felt the area needed a place for kids and adults to collect comics.

Image’s Eric Stephenson’s address to retailers: the same old thing is “is not the...

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by Eric Stephenson Just a word of warning: This is going to seem like I’m all over the place at first, but trust me, it...

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