PictureBox opens store
Following in the footsteps of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly, Picturebox, the Brooklyn-based art comix publisher, is opening a store in Gowanus, Brooklyn!
First, we...
Blog roll: Canadians, blaxploitation
Don MacPherson talks about DC's decision to print only one price on its comics for the US and Canada. The move has made Canadian...
Border’s new concept stores spotlight GNs
Among other things. This week Borders rolled out the first of 20 new souped-up media-age "concept stores" which spotlight five areas: Traveling, Cooking, Wellness,...
Behind the curtain: Rogue Wolf
Heads turned last week when it was revealed that webcomics packager Rogue Wolf had purchased Cold Cut Distribution. As the only other distribution...
Cold Cut sold to Rogue Wolf
While it's been known for a while that distributor Cold Cut had been sold to a Chicago-based concern, the identity of said concern was...
DC RRP: To 2008 and beyond!
This weekend DC held one of its occasional RRP (Retailer Roundtable Program) meetings, an invite-only forum for retailers to see what's coming up from...
Today’s Dave Sim appearance
Is at PANEL AND PIXEL:
Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility and Shared Rewards. If you are entering the comic book field on the creative end, you...
Interesting Stuff
§ Mike Lynch reminds everyone that submissions are open for the 2007 National Cartoonists Society Division Awards.
§Tom Spurgeon asks:
If, as nearly two-decade...
Butcher on Pre-selling
Chris Butcher finally weighs in on the hot topic of the last few weeks :
Much to the detriment of my making friends at retailer...
Annnnnnnnd one last word
Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds weighs in on the pre-sell controversy, and manages to see both sides. Ultimately, however, the benefits far outweigh the costs.
The Direct...
Selling comics is EVERYBODY’S business!
Sometimes we forget that comics isn't just an industry of self-publishers, it's an industry of SELF-RETAILERS. Thus, everyone is still chiming in on the...
Tensions de-escalate
Brian Hibbs responds to my post yesterday and everything is quite civil and everyone seems to understand where everyone is coming from, and...
