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Thanks for your consideration! #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-4 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-4 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Dave Hawksworth Memorial Comic Shop Improvement Award The 2021 Dave Hawksworth Memorial Comic Shop Improvement Award that grants $5,000 to a local comic shop owner to be used for improvements to their business, goes[...]

Is this the first time Spider-Ham and Project Pegasus have been referenced in the same rap song? Or any song? That's Canadian's Wordburglar, a favourite

Orbital Space, the combination comic book shop and art gallery turned it up a notch last night with the new Shaky Kane and Krent Able gallery exhibition

This weekend, London will have a new comic book retail giant. Piranha Comics will open its third comic book store in the city, adding  Watford to their

Recently, Bleeding Cool reported more changes to the distribution of comic books to the direct market of comic book stores, as DC Comics and Marvel have

Brian Hibbs, one of the longest-serving comic book retailers in the direct market, a major voice and influencer in the industry, and the guy who

Third Planet Sci-Fi Superstore of Houston, Texas has filed a lawsuit in the form of a comic book, against neighbouring Crowne Plaza River Oaks hotel and its owner, Pacifica Companies, alleging that guests have repeatedly launched projectiles at the comic shop, causing roof damage, which lead to destroyed inventory when the rains came Third Planet[...]

First there was half of DC Comics. Then there was all of DC Comics. Then there was Scout Comics. And now there is Ahoy Comics, joining the Lunar

The owner of Kingston, Ontario comic book store SBT Comics and Games, Mark Fardella, had a very unexpected FedEx delivery that almost cost him his life.

Milton Griepp's ICV2 and John Jackson Miller's ComiChron have issued a sales chart for comics and graphic novels in North America over 2020 and Griepp has

Coke will serve as the Presenting Sponsor of FCBD and will be featured on printed promotional materials and branded merchandise distributed to local comic shops in advance of the event The other sponsor will be Diamond's own Pullbox subscription service that allows comic shop customers to manage their preorders and subscriptions online in partnership with their[...]

The new Orbital Gallery is launching in the new look Orbital Space comic shop in London from this Thursday with artists Billy Chainsaw, Gerard Don Daniel, GirlShit, JRoldan, and Mister Wim Orbital posted; Hello everyone, Orbital is excited to announce that our art gallery will be opened for public viewing from the 1st of July! We[...]

Diamond will also use the occasion to bring back Diamond's Retail Best Practices Awards and the Dave Hawksworth Memorial Comic Shop Improvement Award, which were lost to pandemic shutdown. Diamond Comics Announces Online Retailer Summit For September Access will be free to the Virtual Exhibit Hall and select limited presentations And paid – access to the free[...]

I couldn't be more excited to add him to the team and am confident that Z2 is well-positioned to bring new customers into comic shops and record stores with a truly unique product that crosses audiences and formats." "I couldn't be more excited to lead our sales efforts alongside my former colleague and friend Jeremy[...]

And for comic book stores who ordered the title, Lunar Distribution delivered from DC Comics this virgin variant cover to the new first issue. Comic Shops Get One-Per-Store Static Season One #1 Thank You Variant Our friends Rodman comics of Ankeny, Iowa, got their copy and slapped it up on eBay, currently with one bid of $35[...]

Looks like Things To Do In London If You Like Comics will be getting a brand new entry for Thursday. Orbital Comics, the comic book store that famously

So check in with your local comic shop to see if – or how – they'll be affected. UPS logo   Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc is an American comic book distributor serving direct market comic book retailers in North America and worldwide They transport comic books and graphic novels from both big and small comic book publishers or[...]

Lunar Distribution, based in New Haven, Indiana, has told comic book stores that they are moving their operation to a new warehouse and operating

Pat Potter is the owner of the comic book store Comic World in Largo, Florida, for 38 years. In November 2019, he suffered a stroke and has been in

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's DC Comics Firings Impacted Relations With Comic Stores

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