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At yesterday's Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con, Diamond awarded their Best Practice Awards for the Summer, to comic book retailers nominated
The transformation of ninja-clan member Jennika into a fellow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has shaken up the TMNT workd, brought a lot more attention to
Bleeding Cool gave you your first look at the big bad of JJ Abrams, Henry Abrams and Sara Pichelli's Spider-Man, one Cadaverous. At the Diamond Retail
Matthew Snyder writes his regular dissection of digital comic book sales. Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your
At the Boom! Studios: Discover Yours Panel, fans got to hear from creators like Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Lilah Sturges (Lumberjanes), Carly Usdin
Marvel Comics was originally going to announce Marvel Zombies Respawn at San Diego Comic-Con. But then a certain Walking Dead comic book came to an end,
In an earlier piece looking at the many Mary Jane-theme variant covers Marvel is running in October, alongside the new The Amazing Mary Jane comic
Star Wars has a great reputation when comes to prequels, right? Anyway, that's not stopping Marvel from publishing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker –
Boom Studios took to the stage at the Diamond Retailer Lunch in San Diego Comic-Con will all manner of announcements for retailers. And they brought a
Once upon a time, before Spawn, before Spider-Man, before Hulk, before Spitfire & The Troubleshooters, Todd McFarlane drew Batman. Most prominently in
At the ComicsPRO Fresh Start breakfast this morning, ComicHub, the Point of Sale and Retail Information app for comics shops we've mentioned on Bleeding
DC Comics do love a good plastic ring giveaway to launch a book. We will remember the Blackest Night event far more for the plastic giveaway rings than
Marvel Comics has teased their planned December event before. And at today's Diamond Retailer Lunch, we got the same logos, laying out The War Of The
Scott Snyder and Charles Soule swung into the Diamond Retailer Lunch in San Diego Comic-Con to talk about their just-announced comic for Image,
Marvel 2099 is a began in 1992, that was originally one possible future of the Marvel Universe, but later revealed in a climax of Superior Spider-Man
No sooner has DC Comics put out a Lois Lane series, than it's time for Marvel Comics to decide what a really good idea that is. Which is how they are
The Red Goblin was the combined powers of Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin and the Carnage symbiote, created for Dan Slott's big Amazing Spider-Man finale
At the Diamond Retailer Lunch today, Diamond Comic Distributors let the assembled retailers know that they can now pay their comic book bills with
"The Comic industry is alive and well" - that was the message to the assembled Retailer Lunch crowd at Diamond Comic-Con today, the annual gathering of
This is what comic book retailers attending a Diamond Comic Distributor meeting have been handed, purely for showing up. They will also get other goodies
Bleeding Cool has been going on about 'connective tissue' being the big buzzword in superhero shared-universe comic books this year, but Dan DiDio was the
We're running through a lot of Marvel odds-and-sods for 2020 while we wait for San Diego to wake up. And here are some unexpected items coming through...
Okay, so this may have partially been my fault. Only partially. In February last year, John McCrea and Gerry Duggan announced their new crime comic, Dead
Yesterday at the DC Publishers panel, Dan DiDio talked about the future of MAD Magazine, stating that it was a tough choice for DC to move it off
Publisher's Weekly has confirmed what Bleeding Cool told you two days ago, that IDW has acquired Sunday Press Books. Well, Publisher's Weekly says that
We looked at a few Omnibus volumes Marvel Comics has lined up for 2020. But there are a number of other collections coming up from Marvel worthy of note,
Well, that's one way to pay for your trip to San Diego Comic-Con 2019. Sleestaks are creatures from the Land Of The Lost TV series from the seventies. And
The new series Strikeforce by Tini Howard and Germán Peralta spinning out of The War Of The Realms will launch in September, with the following
Marvel Comics Presents has had a stand-out storyline set across the decades by Charles Soule and Paulo Siqueira, Wolverine: The Vigil. narrated by somone