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We ran Bill Schanes of Diamond Comic Distributors' memories of the Great Distributor Wars of 1995 earlier today. He also shared memories of the meetings

Sina Grace writes to Bleeding Cool, Hey Folks, I’ve had an amazing year, and I wanted to end 2018 by really making a difference. Let me touch on the

Bill Schanes co-founded Pacific Comics in 1971, an early direct market comics distributor and creator-owned publisher, before joining Diamond Comic

Almost two-thirds of the way? Who would have thought? Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every

Comic book artist Frank Cho has revealed that he's moved on from drawing derrieres to drapes.

If they're not bringing Aunt Petunia back from the dead or rewriting Stan and Jack's original, Dan Slott, Aaron Kuder, Michael Allred, Adam Hughes and

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

The Comic Hunter is a new comic book store that held their grand opening a couple of weeks ago. Located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, they are

On the front power of Diamond Previews, out this Friday if you're lucky, here's a preview of Little Bird #1 from Image Comics, by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian

Firefly, the new comic book series based on the Joss Whedon TV show, from Boom Studios, has gone to a third printing with its first issue, scheduled for

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Bethesda is

It’s always a treat to pick up a new issue of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you never know what’s going to pop out. And this week, it was the

Bleeding Cool is published by Avatar Press, the comic book publisher in Illinois, which recently sold the TV rights to the Warrior Nun comic book to

  Bleeding Cool had only just reported that Vancouver store The Comicshop was closing, when we heard that another Canadian comics store was biting

Play the Game Read the Story Comic Shop is located at the Salmon Run Mall near Watertown in New York state. Or rather it was. It will be closing down at

Republished with permission of Redditor kimberlyisshort who shared this wonderful gift received courtesy of her boyfriend's grandmother. A knitted

We are most definitely over halfway now... Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get

Remember this scene from Spinal Tap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A Followed by this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI The

I understand that there is a little bit of fuss going down regarding these skateboards from Darkstar Skate purporting to be licensed from Heavy Metal

  We're over halfway... Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong

The wedding of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters is today in Fantastic Four #5. The moment has been prepared for. But it's not the only big change in the

Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, is a holiday for Great Britain and its colonial offshoots. Traditionally, it is a day of charity where servants, the

More comic books get more printings... two from Image Comics, two from Scout Comics... MIDDLEWEST #1 3RD PTG (MR) (W) Skottie Young (A) Jorge Corona (CA)

As Bleeding Cool has mentioned before, Titan Magazines has been publishing DC Comics-licensed titles for some time now for the British comics market, but

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday No New DC Comics

Jodie Whittaker has just been on Jo Wiley's Christmas Day show on BBC Radio 2, sharing her favourite music, her love of Madonna and how the song Like A

This is where it all goes kablooey. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told

Just aired on BBC Radio 4 was With Great Pleasure, Neil Gaiman, a series of readings and audio extracts for Christmas Day presented by Neil Gaiman. With

Tomorrow is New Comic Book Day. Or Long Boxing Day as we like to call it. Comic books on sale will have been delivered last week and held back for sale.

Cabe Pictures Publishing is the new spiritual comic book publisher with a line of books from the likes of Billy Tucci, Meredith Finch, Ray Dillon and