Levitz vs Jakala
Hey it's Paul Fridays! as DC head honcho Paul Levitz begins blogging at Blogorama.
Another interesting phenomenon is the difference in concentration between three types...
The fate of Occidental comics
Despite the huge huge market for manga and things manga right now, comics shops, by and large haven't been able to sell them or...
ComicsPRO: CBLDF speech
Speaking of last week's ComicsPRO meeting, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein was generous enough to make the text of his presentation available to us....
The middle is STRONG
John Jackson Miller does his usual insightful number crunching with February's sale numbers:
...the February 2008 Top 300 as a group…sold 1.22 million more copies...
ComicsPRO meeting news
ComicsPRO, the organization for comics retaielrs, held it's conference last week, and Matt Price has a bunch of posts on the public presentations. ...
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...
