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Mike Young – The Rob Granito Of 2013 – At Buffalo Comic Con
There have been a few worthy claimants to this title… Nate Stemen is one… but I think this fellow just pips him to the post for the Rob Granito of 2013. Jeff Watkins from Syracuse, NY, owner of Cloud City Comics and Toys has been in touch This is a photograph he took at Buffalo Comic[...]
Swipe File: Lady Gaga And Dazzler
This is the cover to Bluewater's third biographical comic about Lady Gaga (in comparison, Hilary Clinton has only been worth of on). But is it familiar at
How IDW Are Using Transformers Comics For Outreach
We've already pointed out (and ran video) of IDW's plans to sell My Little Pony mini-comics in mass market retail stores, aimed at children Indeed, just seeing them opened up by my kids has apparently changed IDW's mind about how they'll package the comics They are serious about using this as a way to target[...]
Both Pretty Deadly #1 And Velvet #1 Sell Out Of Their 57,000 Print Runs
Two Image Comics launches for today, Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, and Velvet #1 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, have sold out of their 57,000 print runs, from Diamond Comic Distributors. Now, both books were made returnable if retailers ordered significant amounts, and this figure does not account for any[...]
The Heavy Cost Of Returnability?
Rather than getting all manner of comics in a haphazard unreliable fashion from newsstand distribution, retailers could order exactly what they wanted of exactly which comics they wanted And were then stuck with them, for a higher discount than the returnability option would cost them And that's how comic shops work. It was the launch of[...]
The Close Harmonies Of Last Week's Marvel AR
Not all the comics with Marvel AR on the front have Marvel AR videos inside And what does work… if often very silly Here are some from the last couple of weeks. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdVTDmdxrc[/youtube] Not all the Marvel AR works Not all the comics with Marvel AR on the front have Marvel AR videos inside[...]
Sex Criminals #2 Still Under Review At Apple
The story so far. Earlier last year, a bunch of comics, including Saga #12, were not digitally distribute by ComiXology on Apple iOS devices Then it was revealed that this was ComiXology's doings not Apple's So they were all made available again Until Apple actually looked at them and said they weren't The Boys: Herogasm, Black[...]
Cover Variance: DC Comics To Launch Themed Scribblenauts Variants In January
So for one month, you got a bunch of Tron variants, or Iron Man variants, or Lego variants and a batch of collectors trying to catch them all. Well, it looks as if DC Comics have joined in And their first themed month will be in January, with twenty titles getting Scribblenauts Unmasked variants, with a[...]