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Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, here are the winners of the Diamond Gem Awards of 2019, voted on by comic book retailers in the direct market.
There has been a lot of... let's call it discussion over the closure of Diamond Comic Distributors to new comics product over the coronavirus pandemic.
Over two thousand manga titles, new and old, like Attack on Titan, The Ghost in the Shell, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, and more are
A few looks at a few DC Comics bigger books scheduled towards the end of the year - and into the following one. Phantom Stranger Omnibus January 5, 2021
Man, when the bosses at DC Comics see this, they are totally going to fire him. Oh wait... anyway, former DC publisher Dan DiDio has been posting up a
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail
In Marvel' newsletter sent to comic book retailers by Diamond Comic Distrbutors, Marvel Comics have repeated what they told them last week. This was
Okay, let's take a little break from this week and next week in comics. Previously we looked at some DC Comics boxsets, for YA and Kids collections, and
With Diamond shut down and no comics shipping to local comic stores, even ones that are still open, next week, the world is waiting to see what's going to
(IDW Publishing, creative team: Brandon Easton, Kei Zama, Eva de la Cruz, Shawn Lee) This book is very, very clever. From the pop culture taxonomy of
(DC Comics, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook, Scott Godlewski, Wade Von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Dave Sharpe) Continuing the improvement
As the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent comics industry shutdown has comic book readers on edge, wondering when they'll get their next fix of weekly
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Nick Spencer, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, Nathan Fairbairn, Joe Caramagna) If you loved the visuals on the Image series
(DC Comics, creative team: NK Jemisin, Jamal Campbell, Deron Bennett) This issue takes a deep dive into the lead character Sojourner "Jo" Muellin by both
Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some
Not everything is distributed by Diamond - or distributed at all. Amazon runs a Print-On-Demand service, which have been providing better and better
As Bleeding Cool told you, there have indeed been initial high-level talks between Warners and Disney about approving some kind of Marvel/DC joint comics
Diamond Comic Distributors have reminded retailers that the final deadline for placing initial orders from the March Previews remains tomorrow Friday,
Si Spurrier is a comic book writer, personally picked by Alan Moore to continue his Crossed +100 series at Avatar Press (the publisher of Bleeding Cool).
(IDW Publishing, creative team: Livio Ramondelli, Tom B. Long) This brilliant series has banked heavily on its characters. The Kid is a dazed innocent,
So there I was preparing the usual Thank FOC It’s Friday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to
Archie Comics has issued a following statement to retailers, about their plans to publish their April 1st titles next week as usual, in print and in
Yesterday both DC and Marvel Comics freelancers received e-mails from their respective editors-in-chief, Bob Harras and C.B. Cebulski telling them that it
(Image Comics, creative team: Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Triona Farrell, Cardinal Rae) There is a certain charm in watching people make a
Limited Edition Comix is an English comic book store in Stevenage that does things a little differently. Rather than relying on Diamond UK for weekly
(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho, Clayton Cowles) This issue starts off with big scale science fiction ideas,
Yesterday's Justice League Dark saw Ram V andAlvaro Martinez Bueno do their best Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, John Totleben and Steve Bissette-channelling
(Boom! Studios, creative team: Matt Kindt, Matt Smith, Chris O'Halloran, Jim Campbell) On the good side, this issue has some well-developed team chemistry
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool put forward a modest proposal on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic's effect on the direct market of the comic book