More Diamond Comic Distributor Delays, Comic Store distress and worries for the future of the comics direct market going forward.
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Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at potential fears for the comic book industry regarding promised tariffs and taxes.
How a 25% tariff or tax might affect the American comic book industry and the stores that sell the comics.
Sarah H Cho's Camgirl oneshot and Frank Cho's Fight Girls Directors Cut in AWA February 2025 Solicits and Solicitations...
Atom Freeman's Prana Presentation to comic book store owners and employees at New York Comic Con Retailer Day, in full...
As ever, Bleeding Cool is putting together a massive San Diego Comic-Con Party List for 2024… and here's the first draft. More to come.
The GI Joe Compendium and Ronda Rousey's graphic novel on Kickstarter are getting very different reactions from comic book folk. Why?
AWA has just one solicitation for September 2024, the collection of Jeff McComsey and Felipe Cunha's Little Black Book.
AWA also only has one new comic, the final issue of U & I #6 by J Michael Straczynski and Mike Choi, in their July 2024 solicits.
Bleeding Cool gets the word on a number of major comic book industry hiring moves coming that may change the face of the direct market.
J. Michael Straczynski & Mike Choi's U & I #5 and Little Black Book #4 by Jeff McComsey and Felipe Cunha, in AWA June 2024 solicits.
Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, the time travel heist comedy by Garth Ennis and Goran Sudžuka, is getting a deluxe edition Kickstarter
Diamond Comic Distributors has announced an expanded partnership with Archie Comics as Archie moves into the Deluxe Tier of publishers.
Death Ratio'd is a comic by Mark Russell and Laci, about the deadly aspects of getting thumbs down on social media, in AWA May 2024 solicits.
Rumpus Room by Mark Russell and Ramon Rosanas gets its full TPB collection in AWA's April 2024 solicits and solicitations.
Jeff McComsey and Felipe Cunha are launching a new Western horror comic book series from AWA in March 2024, Little Black Book.
Babylon 5 creator Joe Michael Straczynski and Mike Choi are launching a new comic book series together, U & I, from AWA Studios.
Local Comic Shop Day is sponsored by ComicsPRO, the Trade Organization for comic book stores, and encourages comic store participation.
Local Comic Shop Day offers exclusive items and variant covers available only at bricks and mortar comic book stores. And so it is for 2023.
For years, industry pundits argued to end Diamond’s monopoly. The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
Sarah Cho and Priscilla Petraites launch a new series from AWA Studios in their November 2023 solicits and solicitations, Red Light #1.
J. Michael Straczynski has signed up to create brand new fictions for Dark Horse Comics, announced this San Diego Comic-Con week.
Mark Russell and Ramon Rosanas launch a new series, Rumpus Room from AWA Studios in their September 2023 solicits and solicitations.
Jeremy Holt, Garth Ennis, JMS, Jeremy Holt, Ed Brisson and Mark Russell talked about their upcoming comic books from AWA.
Jeremy Holt, Felipe Cunha and Dearbhla Kelly graphic retelling of The Great Gatsby as Gatsby, reimagined "as an LGBTQ-tinged, multicultural thriller for the Internet age"
The British media company Fremantle behind Idol, Got Talent and The X-Factor has bought a minority stake in AWA.
Cullen Bunn, Mike Deodato and Lee Loughridge launch Red Zone #1 in AWA's March 2023 solicits and solicitations, released first on Bleeding Cool, below. As
AWA has "a slew" of upcoming comic stories written and curated by Hudlin and primed for comic-to-film-or-tv adaptations launching in 2023.
Dan Panosian and Dalibor Talajic are launching a new comic book series from AWA in February, Black Tape, about a heavy metal band opening a doorway to
The Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) Committee has selected the thirteen Gold and thirty-one Silver comic book titles - though none of them from DC Comics -