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I've just got back from Brighton, from a family trip for a couple of days (thank you wi-fi). While I was there I was able to potter with the kids to

It's called Tokyo In Tokyo. It is in Tokyo. And it looks like one of Tokyo's finest cultural icons, a comic book. The shelves are stacked like the tiers

We're continuing to highlight Free Comic Book Day retailers going above and beyond. Stadium Comics of Ontario, Canada are running signings and sketching

A retailer tells Bleeding Cool that, as The Walking Dead starts a new storyline in May, Something To Fear, Image Comics are sending Walking Dead buttons

Living in London, it's getting hard to ignore the fact that for two weeks this year, our lives will be incredibly disrupted by the Olympics. While the

This week… not so much. A few lines from the opening, set the gang's usual comic shop hang out on New Comic Day (so why they are thumbing through back issues, I don't know) "For a lot of these guys the weekly trip here is the only chance their mom has to go down to the basement[...]

ComiXology have released the terms and conditions for creating comiXology websites for comic book stores, allowing store's customers to buy digital comics

The Memorial Day/Bank Holiday long weekend means that comic stores will be getting their comics on Wednesday for Wednesday sale, rather than Tuesday for

Cosmic Comics used to be a New York comic book store. It was sold at the end of last year to new owners who renamed it Manhattan Comics. According the the

"Is this a secret shopper at a non-offending store?" This week, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a report to comics retailers on the Day-Early Delivery service that came into place this year, in which shops can get comics a day before they are on sale, with a secret shopping service in the USA and Canada to ensure[...]

So,who wants to buy a comic store? Here's an email sent to me - sadly, I don't have the money. And Chicago is a hell of a commute. So... anyone else fancy

Aaron and Mike from A Geek Easy/A Comic Shop bemoan the fact that they don't have the week's comics because of holidays – and wonder why that is And why Grant Morrison's so late And why two Spider-Men is great And why Marvel's First Looks is great And that's how they get to show some[...]

  So, what reports have there been from comic shops in the field this week, dealing with the largest shipping week for over a decade, mostly down to Marvel shipping double their usual titles, and including many of their best selling X-Men and Dark Reign titles as they try and get a whack load of books[...]

It's not exactly been a big secret that there have been a few hiccups over Diamond Comics Distribution's relocation of their Memphis branch and bringing