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Ten comic book stores that are opening – including one today – seven that have closed, one that is re-opening and one that is about to open. Comic stores closing: The Clover, Cloverdale's only movie theater, and its offshoot business Next Door Comics which opened in 2019, have officially closed The owner sytated that the theater ran out[...]

Brent Trayce Sands opened a comic book store Impound Comics in Sacramento California's Downtown Commons last year which sells just one comic book His.

Comic sotre owner Rod Lamberti raises some interesting points about Magic: The Gathering sales, but this raises more questions.

St Mark’s Comics, the venerable New York City comic store, is doing more than just rooting for the home team. The legendary retailer announced a

They have written the following statement, Comic Stores Hit By Looting Across the USA Image from GoFundMe. Last night, after some of the peaceful protests in LA, looting, fires and destruction began in the Fairfax District Eventually, the angry mob moved onto the Melrose shopping district and ended up not only burning down the old shop location[...]

Comic stores are not on the most solid of ground right now to begin with, and this type of situation is not going to help If I am being a moron, so be it But comic stores are going to be affected by all this Some already are. Stay safe out there, fellow comic retailers and[...]

Four years ago, Dave Ryan was posting pages from his new planned comic World Wide Warriors, with art by Allan Goldman. Last year he launched an Indiegogo

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran advance notice of 75 comic book shops starting Black Friday Sales today. Overnight we were inundated with more. So here is a

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he's dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow, survive and thrive. This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop". The world of retail is making a drastic shift, and the comic store model will have to shift as[...]

Jonathan Hickman was available for a little video at the Marvel Comics presentation, part of the Diamond Retail Summit being held in Las Vegas today. And

It's a busy show at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vega you've been hearing about and following all weekend long on Bleeding Cool. Donny Cates was too

Esad Ribic is best known in English-speaking comics for his lush painted art on series such as Mighty Thor and Secret Wars for Marvel Comics. And also for

It shouldn; be that much of a surprise - but it is. Marvel Comics #1000, the comic book coming in August from Marvel Comics featuring eighty one-page

Bleeding Cool reported on how DC Comics was making Superman: Year One by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr and Event Leviathan #1 by Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev returnable by comic stores, with news on the returnability of #2 for both of them to follow. Well, at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, DC[...]

DC Comics has been giving their address at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas. And while they didn't have Brian Bendis in the building, he was on hand

At the Diamond Retail Summit, DC Comics has been laying out their event plans for the rest of the year and in 2020... with these presentation slides

DC Comics had lots to talk about at the Diamond Retail Summit Presentation in Las Vegas today. Year Of The Villain, Batman/Superman, Last Knight On Earth,

We look forward to getting mini-reports through the day from the Diamond Retailer Summit being held in Las Vegas. Though not everyone is into the Vegas

Coming out of the bar chatter at the Diamond Retailer Summit as retailers, creators and publishers start chinwagging, especially at last night's DC Comics

This weekend is the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas. It's a private non-media affair, but the stories are starting to percolate their way through to

It looks like there are a record number of nominees for the upcoming Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Spring 2018, with Best Store Layout being an incredibly popular category for comic book retailers. Everyone wants to show off what they have.

UPDATE: That was one hell of a Rich Twitch. Original article up top, follow-up PR below. With DC Comics leaving the front section of Previews, alongside

Filip Sablik is President of Publishing & Marketing at BOOM! Studios. He attended ComicsPRO in Portland this weekend when, in front of a crowd of

Recently ComiXology removed their Pullbox system that allowed retailers to run digital reserve-and-keep lists for their customers for comic books coming

Lion Forge will publish Gene Ha's Mae in a new series, as well as publishing the first volume, according to a press release sent out by the company. The news was announced at ComicsPRO today prior to the press release.

Comic book writer Donny Cates wasn't at ComicsPRO this week, the meeting of comic book retailers, professionals, distributors and publishers. But he sent

When Marvel Comics went exclusive with Diamond Comic Distributors a couple of decades ago, after the fall of their own bought-in distributor Heroes World,

Bleeding Cool first reported the rumour that award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates would be the new Marvel writer on Captain America back in June last

We must applaud eBay user spurio1234the, a comic book retailer who has listed his ComicsPRO exclusive variant cover swag directly from the show while sitting at one of the presentation tables.

Spinning out of the ComicsPRO presentations in Portland comes the sly bit of news that Amazing Spider-Man #794 is going to a third printing.