comic shop Archives

Comic Empire, a comic store in Stones Corner, Brisbane, Australia has burned down. This happened before, well away from, the current Australian bushfires

You'll have read about Comic Connections, the only surviving comic book shop in Oxfordshire, on Bleeding Cool a few times. Opened in Banbury in 1994m it

Coming home from Thought Bubble at Harrogate, I happened to pop by the town's only comic shop – and it was a revelation Destination Venus as a comic store has been around for years, but in recent years was bought out by Regie Rigby, who uses to write the Fool Britannia column that ran alongside[...]

We posted about one comic store closing down in Essex, England over the weekend. Well, nature it seems abhors a vacuum. And as that store was shutting,

Unfortunately, another local comic shop is closing down Manned by Kurt Bollers, West Village Comics is closing down this coming Sunday, September 29th Opening June 30th 2018, while short lived, the shop was a nice little hobby spot where fans went to pick up their books and discover hard to find and rare back issues[...]

Condition is New. this is basically a whole comic shop stock including over 6000 comics old and new in comic boxes most are bagged and boarded these include marvel DC and mixed indie publishing graphic novels of various publishing also there is also mixed collectibles including pop vinyls , marvel select , mezco living dead dolls,[...]

Close Encounters, a well known and long-running comic store in Bedford, England, suffered a fire last week, believed to be caused by an electrical fault,

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Nuts. Currently that is how I feel the comic market is right

Pop Roc is the name of a new comic shop opening on 337 East Ave, Rochester, New York, previously a Magic Wings But it's also a coffee shop And a cereal bar And, frankly, a brand-new type of comic shop. And it's co-owned by former WWE Crash Test Dummy Colin Delaney, alongside Jason Hilton, Nick Andolina, and Liz Andolina. Opening[...]

Next Friday you can learn the art of comic book inking from Cam Smith, an industry icon who has worked on everything from Spider-Man to Batman and of

$10 for a posed picture, $500 for his Donatello voice, whatever. Well, Dennis Barger Jr of Quickstop and Wonderworld Comics has an idea. He writes, Corey Feldman, I will hire you to work in my store for ‪#‎freecomicbookday‬Quick Stop Comic Shop in ‪#‎Detroit‬ May 7th and if it works out you can have Timothy Brown's job let me know[...]

Dan DiDio peered in to the Instore Convention Kickoff, streaming to comic stores across the USA. He talked about how the DCTV shows are creating tight

It's a question that's been asked as DC Comics move a number of their comics to a bi-weekly $2.99 state. Will the page count be cut for the new schedule

That's a KISS figure breaking into Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction presentation to the Instore Convention Kickoff, streaming to comic book stores

Hunter and Josh were up from Valiant Entertainment  to talk at the InStore Convention KickOff. Promoting Valiant's upcoming 4001 AD event with all the

Marguerite Bennett took to the screen for the In Store Convention KickOff event streaming to stores live today. And she was here to talk Red Sonja, her

Kevin White talked to DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee to kick off the In Store Convention Kick Off, streaming to stores across the USA. Jim Lee talked

This year, we understand we have a little competition. God luck everyone! And if you are at a participating store for this live stream event from publisher to creator to store, do send in photos, comments and observations to richjohnston@gmail.com. They have been practising… practice run for the @InStoreKickOff on saturday revealed @cullenbunn might actually live in a[...]

The In-Store Convention Kick-Off on March 5th will see a number of stores running streaming live video presentations from creators and publishers to comic

The Instore Convention Kick-Off is upon us. An event, held simultaneously in comic stores across the land, with live streaming presentations from

Iron Man has had one. Deadpool is getting one. And now Captain America is as well. But only the Steve Rogers one. A "Build Your Own Classic Captain

The first set of 18 here, the second set of 19 here, the third set of 19 here... a fourth look at Black Friday sales amongst comic book stores... one day

And it was home to two publishers, DFC who create the weekly kids comic Phoenix, and Rebellion, who publish 2000AD and Judge Dredd Magazine. Well now, years later, Oxford has got a new comic shop, Inky Fingers, also on the Cowley Road And joining Comics Connections in Banbury as the second comic shop in Oxfordshire. Opened last month in time[...]

In March, a number of stores ran streaming videos from a bunch of publishers, showing off upcoming comic books, and interacting live with customers across

Comic stores often live and die by the quality of their window displays. This weekend, Little Fish Comics in Fredericksburg, Virginia had one of its

CBC in Canada reports, Two families are now homeless after a fire destroyed a three-storey commercial and residential property in Côte-des-Neiges. The

The latest categories for the upcoming Diamond Best Practice Awards for comic book retailers have been announced. Best Counter Display Best Movie/Themed

As part of the Diamond Comic Distributors Better Practice Awards for retailers, they have the following nominees for the best Window Display... is your

All comic shops should have a pub opposite and there were three on this short street. And there was Ian, having a quick half pint and talking about his garden. Soon joined by Jonathan Ross, as we talked about comics, comics creators and plans for more… Soon we all returned to the store as the queues began[...]

Jesse James, familiar to a number of Bleeding Cool writers I'm sure, and retailer of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, is opening a new store in