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Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum have been named Ambassadors for Local Comic Shop Day, relaunching on Saturday, the 27th of September, from ComicsPRO As ambassadors, Oswalt and Blum are expected to be the voice of a campaign created to generate enthusiasm for the celebration while also connecting the community to comic shops. "Having Patton Oswalt and[...]

ComicsPRO, organisers of Local Comic Shop Day, the annual event honouring brick-and-mortar comic shops, have stated that it is getting a full revamp for 2025, after a fallow year in 2024 And promise "new branding, new activities, and new ways to celebrate why we shop local when we shop nerdy The event, which will take[...]

On Friday, the MCM London Comic Con hosted a ComicsPRO event, the first such in the UK ComicsPRO is a retailer activist organisation that took over running the annual retailer summits in the US from Diamond Comic Distribution And two of its members, ComicsPro Board Member & Director of Education Shannon Live and her husband[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott And filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above The return of his legendary comics anthology A1, as well as the comics/music magazine that birthed Tank Girl, Deadline, in one title The A1 DEADLINE Summer Special will be coming to Kickstarter in July for a[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott and filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above, The Double Feature Mechanical Cake anthology, from Mechanical Cake, the comic book publisher working with Ridley Scott and his studio, Scott Free Featuring stories from their Modville and Nick titles Double Feature Mechanical Cake is coming to[...]

Aubrey Sitterson and Jed Dougherty's Free Planet #1 is out today from Image Comics, and it might have put a little fire under the sales of the Comicspro ashcan. Previously, author Aubrey Sitterson told me, "Because Free Planet was expressly designed for the print, periodical format, we printed up 407 copies of the first issue, which I hand numbered and gave[...]

Coming out of ComicsPRO, a couple of weeks ago, we scooped that the publisher brought out creators Cullen Bunn, Leah Williams, Jim McCann, Stephanie Williams, and Si Spurrier as part of the announcement of their initial slate of creators – which also included Mike Tisserand (The Dragon Prince), Marika Cresta (Star Wars: High Republic), Joe Eisma (Riverdale), Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), and The Miranda Brothers (Blade Forger) with hints[...]

Aubrey Sitterson tells me "because Free Planet was expressly designed for the print, periodical format, we printed up 407 copies of the first issue, which I hand numbered and gave out at ComicsPRO As of right now, one has already sold on eBay for $149.99 and there are three others currently available for $119.99, $275 and $299.99[...]

At ComicsPRO, Hunter Gorinson said, "This comic is based on a true story from Dave's life In the early 2000s, he perpetrated one of the first viral hoaxes on the internet by posing as a 16-year-old lead singer of a black metal band from Gary, Indiana, that taunted Norwegian black metal labels so badly they[...]

James Tynion IV took to ComicsPRO last weekend to talk about his publishing imprint-across-publishers, Tiny Onion But, James, what exactly is Tiny Onion? come to the stage and tell us all, please" ComicsPRO screencap "What is Tiny Onion? It is a little complicated, you know, like there is the line that we have in our fancy pitch[...]

As Dan Crary, Director of Marketing & Communications at Oni, said at last week's ComicsPRO looking at industry moves, "Atom Freeman went from Bad Idea to Worst Idea, I mean Prana! You know I love you!" No news as to whether or not Freeman had Crary taken outside and shot But Freeman did have a[...]

The original article continues: Getting over his mock-nerves, comic book writer, artist and publisher Chip Zdarsky took to the stage at ComicsPRO last week The gathering of hundreds of comic book retailers in Glendale, California hadn't seen anything quite like it Not even Mike Kelly cosplaying as Josh Hayes He began… "One minute warning already, what[...]

At the ComicsPRO event, Hunter Gorinson of Oni Press took to the stage to talk the Nacelleverse and Biker Mice From Mars. He brought with him the founder of the Nacelle company and the creator of The Toys That Made Us TV series, Brian Volk-Weiss. ComicsPRO screencap Who took the opportunity to reminisce about Nick's Comic Book Shop in New York,[...]

Last week saw ComicsPRO hit Glendale, California, as hundreds of retailers, publishers, creators and distributors, gathered, and attendees walked away with swag bags full of exclusive comics A number of which have been flipped on eBay and listed… with plenty getting sold So far Batman Hush 2 and Exquisite Corpses are topping the sales list[...]

This weekend at the 2025 ComicsPro Event in Glendale California, in response to current events within the distribution infrastructure of the comic book industry, otherwise known as Diamond Comic Distributors announcing Chapter 11 bankruptcy,  Z2 unveiled its Direct To Retail program, in an effort to provide additional options and opportunities for retailers that wish to[...]

Namely Cullen Bunn, Leah Williams, Jim McCann, Stephanie Williams and Si Spurrier, who all travelled to Glendale, California, for ComicsPRO this past weekend for the Ignition Press announcements and to talk to comic book retailers about their plans… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]

Over the weekend at ComicsPRO, Ghost Machine announced a new title, Sisterhood, featuring the character Sister Hood She will appear in Hyde Street #5 in April and then spin off her own comic book, Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story The year-old creator-owned Image imprint made the announcement at ComicsPro along with news that Sisterhood co-creator[...]

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Turns out there's a reason for that, as Boom Studios Publisher Michael Kelly took to the stage at this week's ComicsPRO event at Glendale, California, to address hundreds of comic book store owners You can catch up with all our ComicsPRO coverage using this link if you want… he began by saying "I'm Michael Kelly,[...]

And AMP Comics CEO Don Handfield of Dark Age, The Source, Unikorn took to the ComicsPRO event to announce themselves and upcoming plans Don Handfield's first book, The Rift, was adapted for television by Steven Spielberg for the Amazing Stories reboot on Apple+ Handfield is also a successful film producer, including The Founder, Kill the[...]

The week saw the ComicsPRO retailer summit in Glendale, California, take place, concluding last night with retailers fully fed, watered and swagged up That included a copy of the Absolute DC Universe ComicsPRO preview, handed out by DC Comics for free And they have sold for up to $30 on eBay, and there are no[...]

Yesterday saw the ComicsPRO retailer summit in Glendale, California conclude, with retailers fully fed, watered and swagged up That included a copy of the Batman #158 Hush 2 ComicsPRO preview, handed out by DC Comics for free Copies are listed on eBay from $20 to $40 But DC Comics also made the preview available digitally… and[...]

At the end of the comic book retailer summit ComicsPRO in Glendale, California, attendees will have a choice of two parties Two official ones that is The Bad Idea Party and the AMP Party There's a bus taking folks to the Bad Idea Party at Revenge Of, and then leaving to take people to the[...]

Today, Jim Lee woke up at 11 am in Glendale, California, showered and got to the ComicsPRO comic book retailer summit in twelve minutes to join Jeph Loeb in time to give the following presentation Such a slacker, Jim, I'm been up for twelve hours. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee at ComicsPRO screencap But they were here[...]

With Bad Idea Comics changing everything for 2025, and joining Lunar Distribution for the launch of Planet Death #1 in May, a combination of their ComicsPRO presentation and their first Lunar listing, has given us the following five more new series launching from Bad Idea through the year, a new book every month from August[...]

DC Comics General Manager and Senior Vice President Anne Leung DePies gave the Keynote speech at ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer summit being held at Glendale, California Bleeding Cool has the transcript: Anne Leung DePies' Keynote Speech to ComicsPRO, screencap "ComicsPRO is an incredibly important organisation to DC We are so appreciative of your work and the[...]

It was announced by DC Comics General Manager and Senior Vice President Anne Leung DePies during her Keynote speech at ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer summit being held at Glendale, California, that Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta will be getting a sixth printing Although she pretended she announced it by accident… Anne[...]

DC Comics Editor-In-Chief Marie Javins and Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief CB Cebulski took to the stage this weekend at ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer summit held in Glendale, California They followed the Keynote speech by DC General Manager SVP Anne Leung DePies, to announce a new crossover between the two comic book publishers, to be released[...]

Jason Blanchard of Rekcah just finished his presentation at ComicsPRO to a bunch of jaded comic book retailers It may be the best presentation of a new comic book I have ever seen The Future Is… by Fred Van Lente and Ennio Bufi. ComicsPRO screencap He's a former comic book retailer, a former employee of DC and Diamond, and now[...]

Sienna at ComicsPRO representing Bad Idea has announced how everything is changing… PLANET DEATH #0 Written by Derek Kolstad & Robert Venditti Art and Cover by Tomás Giorello Colors by Dave Stewart GATEFOLD WRAPAROUND TRIPTYCH 1:500 Cover by Joe Quesada $7.50 for 25 Pack l 24 PGS. On Sale 4/30/25 [IN TIME FOR FCBD]Blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the internationally[...]