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Filip Sablik of Boom! Studios too the stage at ComicsPRO in Portland yesterday (photo by Calum Johnston) to launch Power Up, a new comic book from Kate Leth and Matt Cummings. Kate is best known as a webcomic comics creator, who has been working on Adventure Time-related comics for Boom! which  got the attention for a number[...]

Taking (Blood)shots with Matthew Klein from Valiant, his message is, I dare you to find a reason not to order big on our books! #returnability

During one-to-one meetings with retailers at ComicsPRO in Portland, Valiant Entertainment wanted Bleeding Cool to know how much we are loved… a toast to our good health, apparently. And it looks like there is more where that comes from… Read more of today's ComicsPRO coverage here – including a very special Valiant report…   [...]

Photo by Calum Johnston. Ex-comics store retailer and now Image Comics' retail sales director Corey Murphy has given an address to retailers at the ComicsPRO event in Portland And it appears to have been a rather welcome one. Because between now and Image Expo in January, the publisher launched a discount direct subscription service that put a few[...]

Boom have announced a second comic at the ComicsPRO retailer meet taking place in Portland. Strange Fruit is a new comic written by Mark Waid with fully painted artwork by JG Jones coming from Boom – and it as been some time coming. People at ComicsPRO tell me that it will take place in 1927, as a black[...]

One of Boom's bigger sleeper hits from two years ago was Six-Gun Gorilla, which surprised everyone by taking a pulp era, public domain character and reinventing it into a 2000 AD inspired rumination on the nature of creativity and authorship. Today, during Boom's forward-ushing presentation to the retailers at ComicsPRO, they announced a new series from the same team of Simon[...]

Photo courtesy of Calum Johnston. Jim Nausedas gave Marvel's presentation at the comic  retailer confernece ComicsPRO at POrtland today May not have had the big guns of Marvel and Dark Horse, but Brian Bendis was making the keynote speech tomorrow… Jim laid out the plans for the Secret Wars divided into three subdivisions and the announced books we'd[...]

How can people live that way? Hopefully this comic helps make the world a better place." Announced at comic store retailer shindig ComicsPRO in Portland, local publisher Oni Press announced a new Invader Zim comic book in collaboration with creator Jhonen Vasquez and Nickelodeon for July. Zim, the diminutive, naïve Irken soldier, is assigned to invade Earth to[...]

Yesterday, comic book retailers attending ComicsPRO retaielr meet-and-greet in Portland, received a batch of ComicsPRO exclusive variant covers and advance looks at a number of comic books. They then went and put them on eBay to pay for their flights back And the rest, it seems. Silk #1 has sold a number of copies for $180. Bloodshot Reborn[...]

IDW has been showing their wares at ComicsPRO, the retailer meeting going on in Portland right now. They'll be continuing the Spider-Man comic book strip collection into 1979, for the Library Of American Comics imprint alongside Bravo For Adventure by Alex Toth. They promised retailers that Top Shelf is going to remain Top Shelf after the recent[...]

Valiant Entertainment has just wrapped their ComicsPRO breakfast presentation, kicking off the retailer meet-and-greet day in Portland with several big announcements concerning long-term plans for their new Bloodshot Reborn ongoing series. Marketing Director Hunter Gorinson and Sales Manager Atom Freeman began their presentation with a recap of recent milestones for the Valiant Next wave of titles[...]

The Blacklist has been to Comic Con before… but now it's coming to a comic as well. The successful TV series starring James Spader as FBI's most wanted, turned turncoat (or has he?) Raymond Reddington is being adapted by Titan Comics as a comic book series, announced at ComicsPRO the retailer meeting in Portland[...]

Yesterday's DC presentation at ComicsPRO was also in honour of Senior Vice President and ex-comics retailer Bob Wayne, who is leaving DC Comics this spring after decades at the publisher when they move from New York Part tribute, part roast, he got quite the standing ovation. Photo from Calum Johnston. Follow more of our ComicsPRO Portland 2015 coverage here. [...]

Papercutz tweeted them out, teasers for today's ComicsPRO announcements I think it's fairly clear, don't you?  Breadwinners... …and Sanjay And Craig… Papercutz has previously published Rabbids, Garfield, Smurfs and much more… this should be right up their alley. Follow more of our ComicsPRO Portland 2015 coverage here.   Papercutz tweeted them out, teasers for today's ComicsPRO announcements[...]

Bleeding Cool is continuing to bring you reports from ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer conference happening right now in Portland And more on yesterday's presentations from DC Comics, specifically the collectibles panel. The DC Collectibles panels ran through what they see as the more marketable of their upcoming products Which includes A Terry Dodson designer action figure[...]

Yesterday, Jeff Stokely tweeted, Hey retailers at @comicspro #ComicsPRO tomorrow! Cool news from @boomstudios around 3:15pm regarding new book from @sispurrier & myself! — Jeff Stokely (@JeffStokely) February 20, 2015 Today Si Spurrier tweeted, Comicky retail chums! Delicious news out of @comicspro from @boomstudios at 3.15 PST, regarding a certain @JeffStokely and self #comicsPRO — Si Spurrier (@sispurrier) February[...]

DC senior staffers Bob Wayne, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio made a presentation to comic store retailers today, at ComicsPRO in Portland As ever, Bleeding Cool has folks on the ground to cover the conversations being had. They talked about how Convergence celebrates DC's eighty year history, and how the entire event was entirely edited by Marie Javins[...]

We've run a few break out pieces for the new Hellboy comic and Chuck Palahniuk talking Fight Club 2, but Dark Horse had plenty to discuss in their ComicsPRO presentation to comic book retailers… Dark Horse was keen to show off the The Art Of He Man and talked about strong orderdahead of its April launch, and tied the[...]

  Chuck Palahniuk turned up at the ComicsPRO event for comic book retailers, for the Dark Horse Comics presentation He was there to drum up support and excitement for the Fight Club 2 sequel comic book he has been writing But he needed a hand. Signed hands, handed out to every retailer… Chuck told the crowd that Fight Club is unapologetically[...]

Mike Mignola, at the ComicsPRO retailer summit in Portland has seen Dark Horse Comics give an extensive presentation on their upcoming plans. Amongst many, Mike Mignola was on hand to ask the assembled retailers "What happens when you're already dead and you become ill…" announcing Hellboy In Hell: Hounds of Pluto out in August. "As much as I try to wrap[...]

Heavy Metal brings us two "firsts" this week: this is the first time they've attended ComicsPRO and also the first time they've had a Jack Kirby cover for the magazine. Here's a look at that special ComicsPRO exclusive variant cover they're debuting this week: In keeping with the momentousness of these "firsts", the magazine is launching the[...]

For many, this little bundle of comic books can justify, purely on monetary terms, the cost of travelling to Portland for the ComicsPRO retailer meet. Thanks to this shot from  Happy Harbour Comics, We can see variants of Prometheus, Conan/Red Sonja, The Goon, Bitch Planet, Darth Vader, Silk, Nameless, Bloodshot Reborn, Legenderry titles, Birthright, Orphan Black, Shutter,[...]

Today will see Dark Horse and DC Comics give their big presentations at the ComicsPRO comic book retailer meeting in Portland. We talked about Dark Horse's plans earlier, and DC Comics will be reiterating much of what they told people at Burbank and Orlando recently. One thing I was told from a mysterious "1700 Broadway" fake e-mail[...]

Dark Horse's Scott Allie and DC's Dan DiDio in the ComicsPRO bar last night… is it me or do they loo ka little like upside down images of each other? And this is what they were drinking in the bar… And these are the hotel key cards exchanged in the bar…..but remember, what happens in ComicsPRO, stays in[...]

ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer activist organisation, is meeting in Portland today. Home to a number of comic book publishers and creators, including Dark Horse Comics. Which is why they have a very big presentation this morning to the assembled retailers who make it to Portland. You will have read Scott Allie talking to Bleeding Cool EIC Hannah[...]

It's such an immense thrill and a professional honor to have the chance to contribute to Will Eisner's legacy on the milestone 75th anniversary of his most influential and iconic character." Matt Wagner is the creator of Grendel and Mage, and no stranger to pulp noir, courtesy of his work on such as The Shadow: Year One,[...]

Last week, Oni Press announced this: Stay tuned for more – 2/20/15 pic.twitter.com/7keel6CWUE — Oni Press (@OniPress) February 14, 2015 The tweet was then retweeted by Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez. Could we get a Zim comic from Oni Press? Maybe for June? There's no sign in their May 2015 solicitations below… but I get the feeling retailers attenfing the[...]

Dynamite Entertainment are bringing a few exclusive covers to ComicsPro along with creators Gail SImone and Matt Wagner Both Simone and Wagner are said to have news of new projects coming up with the publisher… so I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this soon Simone has been working on a very long run with[...]

Things are gearing up for ComicsPRO next week, the conference of particular importance to retailers and to discussing the upcoming year in comics among publishers We'll hope to squeeze some of the news out of those gatherings here on Bleeding Cool But ahead of that event, Dark Horse Comics have kindly granted us a glimpse[...]

Expect the likes of Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, comic creators and a bunch of free exclusive stuff that you could flip on eBay and pay for your air fare. And if you are going… do let Bleeding Cool know all about it! BURBANK Friday, February 6 4:00-7:00 p.m. Location to be announced (but I'm betting the new DC offices) ORLANDO Friday, February[...]