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AWA Studios, the new publisher punching above its weight with solid and unique titles under the editorship of Axel Alonso, released a new video at this year's virtual ComicsPro The video featured all the current writers thanking retailers for their support and offered previews of their new and upcoming books. https://youtu.be/aWzN-QpSoKcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer activist group held its annual meeting online over the last couple of days, and DC Comics just sent out a press release saying what they said Whether they did or not.  Stating that DC Vice President of Sales and Revenue Nancy Spears teased several upcoming comic book projects as part of[...]

It's Scorched time! Today, at the comic book store owner online summit, ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the second[...]

Bleeding Cool has managed to get a leak of the video of Bad Idea Comics presentation to comic book retailers at the ComicsPRO event held online today And it is as bizarre as you might have expected, a "How to make $8.7 million" inspirational video by Bagsley Boardson outlining the Bad Idea rules, encouraging retailers[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 But he wants it to be clear that this is not just a bunch of[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the first[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 He talked to me earlier this week about what he's doing and why he's doing[...]

Image Comics' President Todd McFarlane announced his plan to create a greater multi-character, interconnected comic book universe based around his Spawn comic at the retailer summit, ComicsPRO His stated goal is to establish a shared fictional universe over time in the vein of what the other comic industry giants, Marvel, and DC Comics, have accomplished[...]

Near the end of their ComicsPRO presentation, in addition to touting the company's success in 2020, Boom Studios' Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry shared with retailers two new projects coming to stores in May and July respectively. This is a bit reminiscent of last year's conference where they announced Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo's Seven[...]

At ComicsPRO's Annual Conference, which is taking place virtually around the world this year, Boom Studios' Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry are just about done delivering their presentation to retailers Boom is anchoring the first morning of publisher presentations, so it'll be interesting to see what other major publishers say later in the conference. A Message[...]

Being given to retailers at the retail summit ComicsPRO being held today and tomorrow is the return of Wizard Magazine The comic book fan magazine that would outsell many of the comic books it wrote about, was a keystone publication for American nineties comic books, before losing its way in the noughties, before coming to[...]

Comic book publishers were told yesterday and comic book retailers will be told at the ComicsPRO retailer summit today that Diamond Comic Distributors is closing their New Memphis, Tennessee warehouse and distribution centre, with all functions transferring to their Olive Branch, Mississippi distribution centre It is understood that this is a direct result of DC[...]

Expect this to be one of a number of topics at today's ComicsPRO retailer summit. Since the pandemic, lockdown and shutdowns that affected the comic book industry, a number of comic book publishers increased the amount of comic books that they made returnable to comic book stores The idea was to protect retailers from sudden[...]

The comic book retailer activist organisation, ComicsPRO are launching their first online retailer meeting on the 18th and 19th of February this year. ComicsPRO Launch Their First Online Retailer Meeting In February Over thirty vendors are lined up to participate and the ComicsPRO Keynote Speaker will be Kazu Kibuishi, creator of the graphic novel Amulet, And the[...]