Retailing & Marketing

While there is a certain dodginess that makes linking to this feel a little weird, I found this listing for a liquidation center's comic...

Retailer Brian Hibbs takes on variant covers in his latest column, and given that he uses the word "heinous" in the title, as you might surmise, he is not a fan. Hibbs traces the origin of the variant back to 1989's "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight" #1, where four different covers sold like gangbusters and publishers could no longer resist the lure of boosting sales with the method. The practice has grown to where, by Hibbs' count 40% of the comics from premier publishers in October have variant covers. 40%. A lot.

By Steve Morris We're returning to Leeds for a second time this week (Leeds Week!), as the award winning store OK Comics celebrates ten years in business today. The...

As we reported a few days ago, Ingram/Lightning Source has announced an incredibly cheap level of color print-on-demand, and Todd Allen has seen the samples:

___________________________________________________________________________ A few months ago, I brainstormed about how Halloween mini-comics being offered by Diamond could be used in a variety of ways to promote...

It's nearly a year later, and retailer Brian Hibbs is first out of the gate with an analysis of the New 52, a year later and he says it was good. An attached chart shows all the books up significantly for the year, and more importantly, as Bob Wayne promised at Comic-Con last year, the New 52 actually enlarged the pie with some new readers:

Here are some books on clearance at BarnesAndNoble.com! Some of these books are cheaper than a Marvel comic!

Last night Ragú debuted the above ad during NBC's telecast of the Olympics. We had to rewind it a few times before we actually believed what we saw.

On our periodic forays to Bergen Street Comics we've been watching the new Barclays Center go up a few blocks away, so it's good to know that comics loving Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez knows where to get his books:

Realizing that getting new stores out there is crucial to growing the comics business. Diamond has announced a couple of new programs to help...

Continuing their efforts to get comics shops to install expensive but highly efficient POS systems, Diamond has teamed with several publishers to offer stores a $6250 subsidy for purchasing a POS system, it was announced today.

Realizing that getting new stores out there is crucial to growing the comics business. Diamond has announced a couple of new programs to help...