Since then, several other comic stores have also taken their experiences public As before, they have different experiences and ways of responding.
Vault of Midnight - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Vault of Midnight posted their experiences.
Last night, Vault of Midnight Grand Rapids was one of the businesses damaged after the protests downtown We are making quick work to[...]
Comic book store Emerald Phoenix Comics of Aldergrove, British Columbia, posted the following notice, saying "It's a sad day but unfortunately for the first time after all these years we haven't made enough to pay rent." Chris Bodnar, Emerald Phoenix Comics' owner, continued Given the times we are in and the uncharted territory we had […]
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes the Comic Store in Your Future column weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here and catch up with Bleeding Cool's coverage of the current situation and how it affects the comic book industry with this tag Lamberti writes,We are now into week #2 of no new[...]
It seems that we are but a select few comic stores to receive this weeks comics and trades We have had a unprecedented amount of messages asking for our extra copies and what is remaining Please read on For all of you that have pre-ordered and pre-paid for comics .. you will get your items[...]
a comic store in Laguna Hills, California, has a rather intriguing promotion, given current events.
Every $50 worth of comics purchase (EXCLUDING NEW COMICS) gets you a FREE roll of this insanely sought after toilet paper from Costco‼️ This promo includes ALL COMICS & Graphic Novels, omnibuses and art books.And it seems to have gone down[...]
Last year, DC Comics launched a new advertising/promotional feature/device for comic book stores. An LED frame to be hung in, or outside of, stores, that would come with a new topical insert every three months, promoting DC Comics product in an attractive fashion. The offered image changed every three months and retailers will had the option […]
Existing fanbases are likely to make the former more well known, but please let us know if a comic store is opening or closing in your neighbourhood Just e-mail richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Years ago, when I used to write for what is now called Comics Bulletin, I write a comics gossip column called All the Rage[...]
What's the equivalent of the Darwin Award for thieves? Martin Casas, owner of the comic book store Apotheosis Comics in St Louis, Missouri, had three thousand comics stolen out of a storage unit in St Louis. Casas stated that 'a lot of my comics were not high in value but mostly were collected for sentimental […]
New York comic book store Modern Myths posted the following message to customers on their Facebook page this week. They will be closing both their stores later this year — Northampton at the end of May, and Mamaroneck at the end of June. After more than fifteen years of serving readers and gamers in two […]
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. I have been playing around with the ordering for October. Out of my six years of ordering, this time is the most unusual month to be ordering for and the most troubling for me. The theme for October seems to be variants. When […]
On Friday, July 7th, Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, MD held a preview night for select guests to check out the new store on 209 Chinquapin Round Rd. According to store owner Steve Anderson, 80 out of 100 Golden Ticket holders came, and the first 50 of said guests event got a sweet Third Eye […]
Hunter Pence waves at me from the field & then gets an RBI. Coincidence? @hunterpence @SFGiants pic.twitter.com/gd8YGewQgN — Ming Chen (@mingchen37) April 25, 2017 Hunter Pence is a Major League Baseball right fielder for the San Francisco Giants, previously playing for the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies and a member of the 2012 World […]
Earlier in the year, Ariell Johnson spoke at the Ignite conference about her plans to open a comic store in Philadephia Planned for the summer, it was delayed until the end of the year, and received considerable media attention after Bleeding Cool ran this short piece about Amalgam Comics And Coffee.Which has also prompted the[...]
By Christopher HeltonWe talked about this at the beginning of the week, but Comic World, a comic store that has been in the Largo, Florida area since 1982 is in danger of closing Yesterday Dc Comics creator Jimmy Palmiotti and Concrete Canvas Studios artist Greg Mattson signed books and did sketches to help raise some money for Patrick Potter[...]
Yesterday afternoon, an elderly woman drove her car into the West Melbourne comic book store Famous Faces & Funnies. She crushed their two glass front doors and went into their front counter. According to the store, it was an accelerator/brakes pad mixup in the disabled parking bay outside the store, and podcaster Shaun Cobble was […]
Hayley Campbell has led a life steeped in comics. Daughter of writer/artist Eddie Campbell, she worked at Gosh Comics in London for years and recently published a book with Neil Gaiman, whom she interviewed on stage at the Barbican. And now she writes for Buzzfeed – and was able to tap into her long experience […]
Marsha and Alan Giroux write, Our comic book store, All About Books & Comics, a Will Eisner Award winning store, has been in business in Central Phoenix for 33 years. Unfortunately, we recently lost our lease and our family-owned comic shop is being forced to move locations. This news came as a heartbreaking surprise to […]
And comic store owners are having similar feelings Mentioning no names, but in cities like San Francisco with high rents and high costs of living, as well as a relative lower amount of low cost labour, this will see an increase in costs but not a great deal more money on the streets to be spent, in relative terms. Ironically, it[...]
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It looks like it may be a "Very Black Friday" for Midwest and Northeast comic stores, who get their comic book deliveries from Diamond Comic Distributors' warehouses in Plattsburgh.Comics that were supposed to be shipped on Friday to northeast stores across to Michigan just found out this morning that they didn't leave Syracuse until 5am today.Which[...]
