Tag: comics shops
Report: Graphic novel sales were up 65% in 2021
Graphic novels had their best year for sales ever, in 2021, with sales up overall 65% led by spectacular growth in the manga category.
Comics and Graphic Novel Sales top $1.21B in 2019 — the biggest year ever
Bookstore sales and comic shops sales were up, but the bookstore market was larger for the first time.
So which comics companies got PPP loans?
Most publishers and many large retailers took advantage of forgivable PPP loans when the shutdown began.
Tilting at Windmills #270: Pondering Whether to Close A Comic Shop
A periodical-based comics shop in SF is in jeopardy of closing.
Joe Field retires from ComicsPRO board
Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics of Concord, CA is retiring from the Board of Directors of ComicsPRO, the retailer organization he helped to found. You can read his whole statement below, but Field has been...
I Used To Sell You Comics: Comics Are For Everyone (and how working in...
My mother used to roll her eyes every time I started talking about comics. My intricate and inane knowledge of the history and process of this strange thing (that seemed almost to come from another world compared to anything she could comprehend) was a constant mystery to her as I grew up. I was a precocious child. I couldn't just read a book that I liked. I would have to read everything by that author, books on that author's process, and books by that author's favourite author. I would completely immerse myself in anything I loved.
The Valkyries: secret warrior women of comics shops
There was a time not too long ago when you could fit all the "women in comics" at a big table in a coffee shop. Now there re more than 300 women who just work in comics shops. That's the membership of The Valkyries, a private organization for female comics retail employees. and it turns out the group has been instrumental in promoting a coupld of books that have had great success this year, namely Saga and Lumberjanes. Janelle Asselin interviews group founder Kate Leth for all the details:
The Beat Podcasts – More To Come: When Comic Shops Go Wrong
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week’s podcast the More to Come Crew -...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 12/9/13: You’ll love comics even more after you read this!
§ It isn't just here, folks: in India a cartoonist has been arrested for harassing a woman over the phone. A female translator who hired him to illustrate a cover for a book complained...