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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[...]

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[...]