Pullbox offers gift cards
We never had a chance to comment on PULLBOX, the new comics downloading site started by Devil's Due's Josh Blaylock. Basically, you pay a buck to download a comics. Devil's Due, IDW and Jim...
USA Today comics are expensive!
You know what the problem with comics these days is? They are just too expensive! $2.99 for a few pages of story is just too much, let alone $3.50 or $3.95! No kid is...
Peter’s Peter
Several blogs commented yesterday on a retailer panic over SPIDER-MAN REIGN: #1 by Kaare Andrews, which contained a panel of a sad, old Peter Parker thinking about saltines with a sad, shriveled pecker clearly...
What’s to become of Wizard?
With WIZARD magazine seeking a new editor-in-chief -- and presumably a new direction -- after firing the previous head honcho, internet commentators are taking a crack at what THEY would do if they ran...
You Minx, you.
Before I get too far into this, I'll give you the loglines: #1 DC's new girl-focused MINX imprint could just possibly be the most important launch ever by Marvel or DC. #2 I'd read...
Diamond announces new Kids Group
Diamond gives details on new hires and new division:
In 2006, Diamond Book Distributors (DBD) played a key role in cultivating the unprecedented growth, impressive book market sales increases,...
Comics and the Long Tail
Okay, it's late and we're not so hot with numbers and graphs, but a couple of blogs have done some number crunching so you can see the Long Tail theory in action for comics.
Yet...
DC gives seed money to retailer org
Several organizations of comics retailers have emerged over the years, from ERCBRA, to COBRA to the DLG and several others we can't remember. The latest attempt is ComcisPRO, and it seems one of the...
AK Comics waits for the trade
ICv2 has a terse report that AK Comics, the Egypt-based comics publishing company is suspending its monthly publication of comics to concentrate on graphic novels. All material in the graphic novels will be new....
Freedom-loving Canadians clear way for Oz-on-Neverland sex
Chris Staros writes to say that LOST GIRLS, the erotic epic by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, has been cleared for Canadian import:
Top Shelf Productions is pleased to announce that the Canada Border Services...
Comics shop owner stops would-be robber dead
The owner of Westlake Comics Cards and Coins in Illionois fatally shot an alleged robber, numerous news sources reported over the weekend:
The owner of a Roselle card, comics and coin shop shot and killed...
