Music chains soon to become theme park destinations
Variety reports that several Virgin Megastores will be closing -- the chain was an early adapter of manga and graphic novels and continue to...
Levitz on Mass Market
Newsarama holds its annual powwow with DC publisher Paul Levitz. The whole thing is worth reading, especially for its status report on DC's sales...
A glorious week for Occidental Comics!
We mentioned this in a comment, but thought it was worth a more prominent item -- it's pretty much a banner week for American...
Shableski blogs for booksellers
Buzz, Balls & Hype is a book marketing blog aimed at booksellers and librarians. It's just added Diamond Books sales manager John Shableski as...
Fat lady sings for retailer magazine — UPDATE
Comics Worth Reading and ICv2 report that Comics and Games Retailer , the magazine for...well, retailers published by F+W/Krause (which also publishes CBG) will...
But…it’s my only line!
Over the last few days, quite a few stories have been making the rounds that seemed to foretell the death of the pamphlet as...
Torpedo Comics launches
Nerdlebrity news! SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer and big time comics fan John Dolmayan has launched -- no, not a line of comic...
ComicsPRO trustbusters
ComicsPRO, the comics retailer lobbying group, has instituted an antitrust compliance policy to ensure there will be no collusion:
In a move to allay concerns...
Can anyone here sell comics?
Last week's Tilting at Windmills by Brian Hibbs was a particularly meaty one as he delved once more into the periodical vs trade debate...
ComicsPRO reaches historic accord with Wizard
Unless you closely follow retailer issues, you may not have been aware of an ongoing argument over Wizard's shipping policies -- basically they shipped...
Quinlan Keep closes in Columbia
Even as things continue to trend upwards in comcis retailing, this Columbia Missourian story on the closing of a comics shop reminds us ...
Bookazine adds manga to TWE
The manga onslaught continues, as PW reports that the 800-900 outlet strong Trans World Entertainment chain had contracted with wholesaler Bookazine to add manga...
