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This position requires availability for after-hours events, and weekend travel throughout the year. Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Planning, marketing, and executing donation center updates and promotions, using the Shopify platform. Planning, marketing, and executing weekly auctions on eBay Planning, marketing, and executing crowd-funding campaigns Develops visual communications, including print and online ads, promotional materials, and social media[...]

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[...]

By Christopher Helton It isn't every day that a comic store makes it to twenty five years, and this past weekend local comic store Emerald City Comics wrapped up a month long celebration of reaching this milestone This weekend's party was a tie-in to the new Batman-related television show Gotham that aired this past week. In addition[...]

I suppose some people might think that silly but comics are a huge part of my life. — Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliams13) September 3, 2014 I'm going to take a brave and courageous stand here on Bleeding Cool, and say that, whatever is true or not, whatever can be proved or not, that, in general, comic stores should[...]

The Diamond Best Practice Awards: Spring 2014 will be presented from the comic book distributor to a number of retailers at this year’s Diamond Retailer

So, you're a comics retailer. You've been severely allocated on your 3D covers for Villains Month from DC Comics. But at least you now know what you're

Here are the nominees' for Diamond Comic Distributor's Best Practice Awards for the summer. Note Bleeding Cool contributor Jesse James has nominations on

  This weekend, a new comic store opened in the Greater Toronto area in Ontario, Canada It's called Fortress Inc, it's got a great looking storefront logo, and looks clean and spacious Heavy on the superhero, it's always nice to report a new store opening, rather than one closing. If you're in the area, pop by and[...]

Collectors Cornered is a weekly-ish video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a

We ran a big list of Black Friday sales last week. You should probably check it out. But they keep coming, so here's a second list... but first something

You Americans and your strangely scheduled holidays. Apparently next Thursday is your Thanksgiving festival. And the Friday is known as Black Friday, when

Bleeding Cool has reported about the attempts of the comic industry to encourage existing comic shop owners to open up new comic shops. But what if you

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

Troy talked to Bleeding Cool about opening the only comic store in Costa Rica, BoomShop. There are a couple of other shops here that sell toys, games and whatnot and have a couple comics along with them, but we're the only real "comic shop" I'm amazed at the amount of people that keep asking me if[...]