Retailing & Marketing

Mouse Guard artist David Petersen has a very thorough post on a topic that we haven't seen explored too much, despite its ubiquity: how to exhibit at comics shows if you are a creator. The whole post is full of very solid advice, from where to get an affordable retractable banner to how to get going. Just some common sense real world advice. Two excerpts on vital matters:

Retailing advocacy group ComicsPRO has announced their annual Industry Appreciation Award nominees which salute "those who have been simply the best at what they...

Ever since Diamond announced their Diamond Digital initiative, allowing comics shops to sell digital comics to customers, I've  been wondering about the future of...

'Tis the season for what the bestsellers of the previous year were.  And with it comes the annual opportunity to illustrate that tastes can...

The Comics Reporter's year-end interview series is full of notable quotables, as usual, and spans quite an array of newsmakers and creators. I was...

After Image's Jennifer De Guzman played bad cop, and publisher Eric Stephenson played good cop, Image has released a new set of guidelines to...

What a difference a day makes, and more importantly it seems that at least one publisher has decided to listen to the people who...

The mean streets of the Windy City took a toll on the storefront of well known comics shop Chicago Comics when a holiday bar...

Well, all week there have been ruffled feathers from retailers following a rather blunt email from Image marketing director Jennifer de Guzman that suggested...

The Silver level sponsors for 2013's Free Comic Book Day have been revealed and it's an eclectic mix, as usual. The Free Comic Book...

Due to last week's port strike that closed the L.A.-Long Beach Port, a bunch of IDW titles that were to come out this next...

Recently, the ownership of two prominent NYC comics shops has been changed. § Over at Bergen Street Comics, it was announced that: Proud to announce...