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No one knows how to advertise to their customers – or potential customers – than local comic stores. But also no one wants to pay to advertise. Well, at ComicsPRO, DC Comics has promised to reimburse retailers 100% for any expenses they incur advertising the launch of the Rebirth titles from their store. There will be guidelines to follow,[...]

It was reported on the news as a matter of curiosity, with copies of Deadpool trade paperbacks littering the freeway. But the traffic accident that Bleeding Cool reporyed earlier today saw a Diamond Comic Distributors truck torn open, with comic boxes falling and ripping out into traffic. We updated the article with a letter from Diamond, reproduced[...]

As for Prez? @gehendj @dandidio1 @geoffjohns October! — Mark Russell (@Manruss) February 19, 2016 Survived are Justice League, Batman, Detective Comics, Superman, Action Comics, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Suicide Squad, Justice League Of America, Deathstroke, Harley Quinn  (all bi-weekly) Earth 2, Hellblazer (no John Constantine in the title), Batman Beyond. And brand new are The Super Man,[...]

UPDATE: I may have been stung my e-mail on the details on Superwoman and The Super Man… an old retailer friend sent some details they found on a CBR message board that were sadly fake, pretending they were at ComicsPRO Still, the checklist below isn't looking too shoddy Apologies to Lois Lane fans led astray[...]

 Both Blue Beetles…  The Trinity again…. And a Superman getting his secret identity back? More memories to change… They're having fun at ComicsPRO, certainly… Read more DC Comics Rebirth and ComicsPRO coverage here. At the end of Geoff Johns' Rebirth video, indicating the direction of the new DCU, we get a list of images from previous books, that[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFXITBuLMAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: EXCLUSIVE: DC COMICS REBIRTH Official Announcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFXITBuLMA) Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you that DC Comics' Rebirth would be announced today at ComicsPRO in Portland. And so it is being. We told you that the spin would be the best of the New 52 and DC You, but bringing back classic[...]

At ComicsPRO in Portland, IDW Publishing has named comic book online store manager Joel Elad as their new Direct Market Sales Manager He will be the publisher's liaison to comic shop retailers as well as manage the company's retailer exclusive variant cover program Elad comes to IDW from NewComix.Com, the company he co-founded in 1998. He was also Director of Sales and Marketing[...]

Dark Horse's Randy Stradley has announced Aliens Day at ComicsPRO in Portland Something separate from Dark Horse Day in June, the last Aliens Day that Dark Horse ran was, I think, in 2009. But it is the 30th Anniversary of Aliens as well… Set for 26th April, expect lots of promotions and prizes – and the Predator/Aliens/Aliens[...]

At ComicsPRO in Portland, Dark Horse Comics just announced Avatar: The Last Airbender—North and South Part One by Gene Yang and Gurihiru coming out the 28th September   When Aang leaves to aid Zuko with the Kemurikage, Katara and Sokka return to the Southern Water Tribe by themselves Katara is shocked to find that her beloved village[...]

At ComicsPRO in Portland, Dark Horse just announced a new Conan series, Conan The Slayer by Cullen Bunn, Sergio Dávila and covers by Lee Bermejo and Mark Schultz on sale the 13th July. Alone, battle weary, and with nothing but his sword, Conan of Cimmeria faces his inevitable death in the arid wastes [...]

Dark Horse Comics has announced Wonderfall, a new all-ages creator-owned comic book by Red Sonja team Gail Simone and Walter Geovani, at ComicsPRO in Portland.. Wonderfall is an epic fantasy, featuring­ the adventures of Yala, a young girl wi­th powers even she isn't fully aware of,­ against the nightmarish forces that thr­eaten her home and family. It's a book[...]

Dark Horse Comics has announced the Moebius Library: The World of Edena Volume 1 for the 26th October. The long out-of-print Edena Cycle from Moebius gets a deluxe hardcover treatment! Moebius's World of Edena story arc is comprised of five chapters—Upon a Star, Gardens of Edena, The Goddess, Stel, and Sra—which are all collected here. More to come[...]

And now we have Dark Horse Day. Announcing at ComicsPRO today, for the 30th Anniversary of Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse will be making promotional materials, retailer discounts on Dark Horse backstock and a 40 page 30th Anniversary Dark Horse Day Sampler, intended to be given out by retailers for free. It will feature classic stories including Aliens[...]

Publishers, creators and now charities. This morning at the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, legally supporting and defending freedom of speech in the comics medium, announced that they are moving offices from New York City to Portland, Oregon Their new office will open on June 1st. They can expect lower operating expenses, and they'll be on[...]

Ahead of the ComicsPRO comic book retailer event today in Portland, local publisher Oni Press has announced via the Hollywood Reporter that Joshua Hale Fialkov, co-creator of their series The Bunker and The Life After, has signed an creator-owned exclusive deal with the publisher. Normally people sign work-for-hire exclusive deals Could this be a new thing? And[...]

The solicitations for DC Comics revealed that Cyborg co-creator Marv Wolfman was returning to the title for issue 12 in May - expected to be the book's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-Wbs3PRMsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Valiant Comics A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER & ARMSTRONG Official Trailer (2016) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-Wbs3PRMs) In advance of the 10th Annual ComicsPRO Membership Meeting in Portland, OR, Valiant is proud to debut the official animated trailer and an extended look inside for A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1 –[...]

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I knew they'd want to get May's solicitations out of the way first… and they haven't wasted any time. I am told that DC Comics will announce Rebirth event tomorrow at the ComicsPRO event for retailers. Oh and Marc Silvestri is coming. So expect the announcement of his Batman comic as well. The spin is that the Best of[...]

In a week-and-a-half, ahead of Wizard World Portland, ComicsPRO will be holding its annual comic book retailer get-together and presentation. We've looked at some of the exclusive variant covers that attendees will be picking up But here's a couple more. First, an edition of Kennel Block Blues from Boom, looking like this, by Caspar Wijngaard (co-creator of Image's Limbo). And[...]

Retailers who attend the ComicsPRO annual meeting in Portland from the 18th to the 20th February, will receive one copy of the ComicsPRO exclusive Red Armor Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic. Far rarer than the White Ranger variant which has sold for up to $300, it has a very small print run, limited to the 150 retailers in attendance. Do let[...]

The retailer activist group ComicsPRO is having their annual get together in Portland Celebrating their 10th anniversary, attending retailers will get special exclusive variant covers from a number of publishers. Here are Marvel's offerings, black-and-white versions of Spider-Man #1 and Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #1 Expect them to sell for hundreds…Retailers interested in attending[...]

Valiant and ComicsPRO are partnering for Local Comic Shop Day, a brand-new event celebrating comic book shops and their important contributions to the comic book industry Set for Saturday, November 28th, your local participating comics retailer will have two exclusive Valiant offerings: Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #1 and Book of Death: The Fall of Harbinger #1[...]

Dennis Barger of QuickStop Comics used to be an outspoken member of the comic book retailer pressure group ComicsPRO Then he became an outspoken ex-member. Just as fellow outspoken retailer Larry Doherty of Larry's Comics once accused members of the ComicsPRO board for co-opting his proposed-but-rejected shared retailer exclusive cover idea for the non-ComicsPRO Ghost Variant program (Larry would go[...]

ComicsPRO, the trade organization of comic book retailers, has announced that registration is now open for retailers and publishers to join Local Comic Shop Day. Bleeding Cool has reported on this promotion before, timed to coincide with Small Business Saturday, on November 28th, and learning lessons from the In Store Comic Con Kick-Off, it will see stores[...]

Working at Fantagraphcs, founding Malibu, and the Aircel and Eternity imprints that went along with it, publishing Image Comics for the first year founding Ultraverse, getting bought out by Marvel, a director of Humanoids, owener of ad agency Dogg Works and working at book packaging company The Pack. For the last few years, he was been[...]

While at the ComicsPro meeting, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund had an auction and among the items put up was a Matt Wagner page and sketch to go along with Dynamite's announcement of Wagner doing a new The Spirit series. The winning bid was placed by Jon Cohen of Beyond Comics… it was for $2,000.00. [...]

  This weekend held the ComicsPRO annual meetup of comic store retailers, to discuss opportunities and challenges With plenty of publishers and creators on hand. And thanks to some friendly retailers giving us live reports, Bleeding Cool was able to cover the event more thoroughly than any other site (though we are sure we missed stuff)[...]

Last night's ComicsPRO meet in Portland ended with a party from local comics publisher… and thanks to social media, it's like we were there! Beginning with this photo from Oni's Jamie S Rich. Shannon O'Connor posted from the party, getting more popular with each shot. The Pander Bros and Joe Nozemack popped by… @PanderBros @OniPress Oh great the[...]

At the retailer meet ComicsPRO in Portland, publisher Titan Comics announced, as well as a series based on the show The Blacklist, that they would be running a Doctor Who Day in August, with Paul Cornell writing a five part Doctor Who story running weekly for a month. This will replace the ongoing Tenth, Eleventh and[...]