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Anyone Comics in Brooklyn, New York, is to host a queer comic book street fair, featuring local creators selling their comic books to celebrate Brooklyn

Diamond Comic Distributors is adding a new service to its Final Order Cut-off Process, called "Demand Check" Here's how they describe it; When publishers

A new service that allows comic shop customers a better way to manage their preorders and subscriptions with their local comic book specialty shop. The service, which is currently wrapping up beta testing, currently has more than 300 comic shops and over 17,000 consumers with more than 225,000 subscriptions to comic book titles on the system[...]

In February 2019, St Mark's Comics of New York closed its last store after 36 years of business. With locations over the years in Manhattan and Brooklyn,

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to

Bad Idea is the new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Hunter Gorinson, Atom Freeman, Warren Simons, and Joshua Johns. A direct-to-retailer

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And this week,

All sorts of shoes are dropping for the direct comic book market centipede right now. The direct market, for those who need a little catch up, is the

When Marvel Comics made the move to exclusive comic store direct market distribution with Penguin Random House (with a third party carving-out for Diamond

Last year, DC Comics, as part of a line-wide Warners employee downsizing, made many of their most senior staff redundant, some who had been with DC for

Today is the first Saturday in May, which would have been Free Comic Book Day is less Revelation-themed times. The event has been moved to the fourteenth

Last month, Bleeding Cool reported the news that Marvel Comics was moving its exclusive direct market business to Penguin Random House and away from

Well, he has now popped up on a review board working for the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation who have announced today that applications for the Survive to Thrive grant program will be accepted until the 10th of May 10. Fletcher Chu-Fong, from LinkedIn Fundraising for the grant program, which is designed to provide substantial grants to[...]

The X-Men: Evolution trade paperback published by Marvel in February has a misprinted page in which dialogue was duplicated erroneously.

Here's one. Piranha Comics hiring sign James is also Piranha's point man for their social media and creates these great introductions for his weekly shows, which have been taking them through lockdown and now into the bright summer sun. And talking of the West End comic shops, I did cycle in to take a look at those as[...]

But today, comic shops across England are reopening en masse6, the Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Daily LITG: – the ten most-read stories yesterday… LITG: Cartoon by Rich Johnston The world keeps turning, and America[...]

We're also probably going to be a bit rusty with various systems around the shop, so do bear with us! Basically the same as prior to this lockdown, and the same as other retailers, so I'm sure you get the drift. Orbital Space Comics of London posted on Instagram, Hello everyone, long time no see! Orbital Space London is[...]

Yesterday, Scott Hoffman posted to Facebook "Hello people of Crossville the time has come I am opening a comic and collectible store if you live in the

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to talk, penguin. Most people,

Big Lick Comics in Roanoke, Virginia is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays, from 10 am to 7 pm. Screencap – Big Lick Comics, Roanoke, Virginia Virginia loosened coronavirus-related restrictions a week ago, making such launches possible, including lines out of the door on Saturday when the comic shop opened. Screencap – Big Lick Comics, Roanoke, Virginia JD Sutphin told[...]

Founded with initial support from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group, the program will quickly provide grants to independent bookstores and comic shops affected by COVID-19. With a leading gift of $500k jointly from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group, $250k from Bookshop.org, and an additional $250k total from Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan Publishers, and Penguin[...]

Mike Wellman, formerly of The Comic Bug and now the co-owner of Long Beach Californian comic book store, Atomic Basement Comics and Creator’s Lab, has

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to write about change. At times

Scout Comics is the second publisher to sign a distribution deal to the comic book store market with Lunar Distribution. Lunar is the distribution company

On Wednesday, Bad Idea Comics were promoting their comic book launch Eniac #1 in all manner of fashions. The first official publication from the new comic

And from all manner of disparate sources and rallies, with even opponents changing their minds, they raised and distributed a lot, to those in need. BINC Opens Grant Applications For Comic Shops In Need Binc's Executive Director Pamela French stated "In 2020, Binc distributed $2.9 million to help more than 2,200 bookstores, comic shops and individual store owners and employees[...]

This coming Monday, comic book store and contributor to the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, Famous Faces of West Melbourne, Florida is holding its 27th

Rod Lamberti of comic shop Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. I opened up my store and wanted to be different from other comics stores Why offer the exact same experience and products other stores do? For years there was only Diamond for comic stores to order through[...]

Next week will be a monster week in comics - that's if all the comic books arrive. Weather and pandemic have seen many delays, especially from Diamond

There have been a lot of delays to comic book deliveries of late, with current weather issues hitting all manner of aspects of the industry. Both Diamond