James Haick, President of Scout Comics writes about a new product launch at ComicsPRO last weekend. You can catch up with all of Bleeding Cool's ComicsPRO coverage right here. My name is James Haick and I became President and partner at Scout Comics and Entertainment a little over a year ago. Never in my wildest […]
ComicsPRO was this weekend at Portland, Oregon, was rather overshadowed by the firing of DC Publisher Dan DiDio. So we are rather playing catch up with some of the news announced, apologies for our tardiness. But that included Mad Cave Studios launching Mad Cave Champions, a new rewards initiative to provide retailers exclusive offers on all […]
Just a few weeks ago, a team of comic publishing executives – Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson, Josh Johns, and Atom Freeman – unveiled their new publishing brand Bad Idea, announcing they would only sell their comics in twenty qualifying comic book stores, increasing to fifty in the first year. No variants, no digital, […]
DC Comics were scheduled to appear in strength at ComicsPRO being held at Portland, Oregon right now. However, I am told by connected individuals that DC cancelled most of their ComicsPRO appearances. No one showed up on the first day, and DC Comics missed their hour-long presentation shot. ComicsPRO gave DC the chance to make […]
Today at ComicsPRO, in Portland, Oregon, as DC Comics executives were dashing out of the door, Nick Barrucci, CEO of Dynamite Entertainment, gave the ComicsPRO keynote speech. He has allowed Bleeding Cool to reproduce it in its entirety. Good morning fellow comic lovers! It's great to see you here. I know it's not easy leaving […]
Bad Idea launched, announcing they would only sell their comics in twenty qualifying comic book stores, increasing to fifty in the first year. No digital, no collections, no Diamond distribution. We wondered how that would go over at ComicsPRO. Well, they had to make changes. For a start, they are increasing the first wave to […]
Ralph Mathieu of Alternate Reality Comics, Las Vegas is attending ComicsPRO in Portland, Oregon, the retailer advocacy group's annual summit. As we have detailed in depth, retailers attending the show can benefit from quantities of swag, as well as knowledge, insight and industry networking opportunities. But the swag does figure large. Here's what Ralph picked up […]
At 12:17pm PT, The Beat posted an Exclusive transcript of the address to ComicsPRO by Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry, in which they talked about the importance of publishers managing launches, understanding comic stores and buyers, and lesson from Trader Joe's, as well as launching a number of new titles. It was a rather good […]
At ComicsPRO, Dynamite announces the first of many planned collections compiling Christopher Priest's run on Vampirella, due out in April. Titled Seduction of the Innocent, and named after Dr Wertham's puritanical tome, this first trade paperback will collect issues #1-6 as well as the Free Comic Book Day 2019 #0 issue that kicked off the […]
As you've been reading, Boom Studios announced some major talent scalps today, with Marvel's Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) and returning artist Simone Di Meo (who Marvel had poached from Boom for Champions) debuting their first-ever creator-owned series in They Only Find Us When They're Dead and Marvel and DC's Tom Taylor (Wolverine and DCeased) joining […]
You've heard this story before – a new voice gets big at Marvel Comics, had fans clamoring to see their creator-owned comics and then a major announcement is made from Image Comics to much acclaim from fans worldwide. Then again, it looks like times are changing because today that announcement came moments ago from Boom […]
Not content with only having Image Comics co-founder and CFO Erik Larsen waging a war against them, it looks like Boom Studios has poked the bear in Burbank and scored themselves a defector from DC Comics with Tom Taylor, the writer behind some of their biggest books in the last five years including Injustice and […]
sacredsix, all lower case, is a new ongoing series by Christopher Priest, Gabriel Ibarra and Jae Lee, spinning out of Priest's Vampirella series from Dynamite, is scheduled for May this year, and talked about at ComicsPRO today, where CEO Nick Barrucci will be giving a Keynote speech, Enter: a tale of two towns in rural […]
Boom Studios just kicked off their ComicsPRO presentation – straight into Bleeding Cool's inbox, by going back to their biggest book – Power Rangers. Yes, the series where Boom sold 800 copies in 15 minutes at one store of issue #25. With those same Power Rangers still driving buzz amongst readers and collectors, retailers' ears […]
So… who's going to ComicsPRO? Portland Oregon awaits for comic book retailers, publishers, distributors and the like to gather… and present. Here's a few who are chatty on social media about the whole. If anyone else wants to share something, e-mail me on richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. And catch up with more #ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tag. […]
Bad Idea is going to the ComicsPRO summit, you know, the retailer activist group's meeting, freash after announcing that the new publisher will be selling comics from only twenty stores that fulfil its stringent criteria, growing to only fifty stores by the end of the year. People who are not part of that twenty are […]
Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has revealed their EX-X-XCLUSIVE variants for the upcoming ComicsPRO Annual Meeting in Portland later this month. The variants include an Alienated #1 variant by Özgür Yildirim, as well as variants for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 and #2 by George Caltsoudas, and will be given away for free […]
At the ComicsPRO meeting of comic book retailers at Charlotte, North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio talked to assembled retailers there about the state of the industry and the issues facing DC Comics. And a few folk have passed a few of them on to Bleeding Cool. Probably a […]
At the ComicsPRO meeting of comic book retailers at Charlotte, North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio talked to assembled retailers there about the Walmart DC Exclusive 100-Page Giants. Four – and then six – monthly titles reprinting DC Comics with exclusive stories from DC's most popular talents. And he […]
The ComicsPRO summit was held a couple of weekends ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which comic book retailers met to discuss the state of the industry, meet publisher, distributors, creators and more. There were a bunch of announcements made, discussions had, speeches given and solutions proposed. One group of attendees was particularly notable, representatives […]
