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Last week, Bleeding Cool scooped the news from the ComicsPRO Summit that Diamond Comic Distributors was to offer a cut of 40% to freight and shipping charges to comic book stores going forward Bleeding Cool now has more details of what is being offered to retailers and the impact it may have. Geppi Family Enterprises Chief[...]

Last week saw ComicsPRO in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a comic book retailer event in which publishers, creators and others promoted their work to comic stores for the year ahead Bleeding Cool already ran the leaked Bad Idea ComicsPRO video presentation to retailers, but there is more besides. Bad Idea Comics is a relatively new comics publisher from Dinesh Shamdasani, Atom Freeman,[...]

The publisher attended ComicsPRO in Pittsburgh this week, amd produced a ComicsPRO sampler book as part of their swag bag handed out to retailers Included is a preview of Seven Years in Darkness #2, Josif 1957 #1, and yet to be announced Mother Russia Well, consider it announced now, it will be in the upcoming[...]

Especially, as with the presentation below, they dive into horror comics. As to content, Zenescope are best known for their "sexy" take on fantasy literature, including Robyn Hood, Belle the Beast Hunter, Cinderella the Serial Killer Princess, and Liesel Van Helsing, in a shared universe that began with their Grimm Fairy Tales books, as well as[...]

Today is the final day of ComicsPRO, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown until the 25th of February The retailer summit is being held again in person for the first time in three years The last one held in person was Portland in February 2020 … right before[...]

And they have their first presentation at the ComicsPRO Summit this week in Pittsburgh with hundreds of US comic book retailers, abouyt bringing their digital manga to print They also released their video presentation online. Frederick L Jones talked about how Saturday A.M, is a manga anthology inspired by Saturday morning TV cartioons, has been a successful[...]

In their collective Cartoonist Kayfabe identity, Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg gave the Keynote Address to ComicsPRO by video It may have been the first in-person ComicsPRO event in three years, but Ed and Jim were going to do this bit behind the screen And they had a message to comic book retailers, sell more[...]

From the AWA video presentation at the ComicsPRO Summit in Pittsburgh concluding today, Jeremy Holt, Garth Ennis, JMS, Jeremy Holt, Ed Brisson and Mark Russell talked about their upcoming comic books from AWA. Jeremy Holt: I'm the writer and co-creator of the upcoming graphic novel Gatsby through AWA Studios I want to thank AWA for believing[...]

Image Comics has just made their presentation at the ComicsPRO Retailer Summit 2023 And they just ran this Kyle Higgins video talking about the big upcoming crossover event for the Massive-Verse, The Catalyst War, beginning with Radiant Black #25 in July "Everything has been leading to this moment", apparently, and just how they have tried[...]

Skybound Entertainment concluded their first-ever ComicsPRO presentation by saving the best for last, as Morgan Perry (Brand Manager) from Skybound announced Void Rivals #1, the debut issue of an all-new series beginning in June from Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici, AKA the team behind the series Oblivion Song.  And while there's no news on Jake[...]

Skybound Entertainment took the stage today for their first ever ComicsPRO presentation with Morgan Perry, their Brand Manager and one of retailer Brian Hibbs' favorite people in comics, with a spotlight on some of their biggest books for the year including Michelle Fus' Ava's Demon and Dylan Burnett's Arcade Kings But they also announced that[...]

In Image Comics' ComicsPRO Summit presentation in Pittsburgh, VP of Sales & Publishing Planning Matt Parkinson took the virtual Zoom-stage to go over upcoming titles and boost a special thank you video from bestselling creator Rick Remender Bleeding Cool has managed to get a copy of it. Rick Remender promotes his work but also talks about what[...]

At ComicsPRO today, Vault Comics announced a new series for later this year, Unnatural Order from Christopher Yost and Val Rodrigues Described as "Zero Dark Thirty meets The Lord of the Rings" it tells the story of "a Roman soldier and a witch who lead a motley crew of heroes against a common enemy, the[...]

Okay, so Bad Idea Comics has just made their presentation at the ComicsPRO Retailer Summit 2023 And they just ran this video It is… a little on the meta side So bear with it while it begins, and imagine you are in a room full of retailers who have just been through twenty such videos,[...]

They are at their first ComicsPRO event, in Pittsburgh handing out copies of the Battle Quest Comics' offering for Free Comic Book Day, two-and-a-half months early at the summit And you can read the whole thing for free on Bleeding Cool here.   Battle Quest Comics is also talking about increasing its outreach by being the first[...]

And now they are at their first ComicsPRO event, in Pittsburgh. They have been handing out copies of the Battle Quest Comics' offering for Free Comic Book Day, two-and-a-half months early at the summit They didn't get a book through the traditional Free Comic Book Day committee, but that's okay, they are doing it themselves, publishing[...]

Announced at the ComicsPRO retailer summit in Pittsburgh yesterday, Rick & Morty: The Manga Volume 1: Get In The Robot, Morty! is the first in an all new series of manga-inspired manga-sized adventures Rick & Morty: The Manga is written by Alissa M Sallah with art and covers from Jey Odin Rick & Morty: The[...]

And at ComicsPRO, Marvel Comics EIC C.B Cebulski (far left) showed a little of what Marvel's plans for X-Men and Avengers in 2023 will at least look like. Photo sent to Bleeding Cool from a retailer source, used with permission. That's 120 years in total Okay, let's turn the contrast up a bit. Photo sent to Bleeding Cool[...]

Schanes was also part of Diamond's early forays into digital distribution. He remains a constant source of information.  And now he's back. Bill Schanes – Screencap  from YouTube. Amnounced by Oni Press at ComicsPRO today, Bill Schanes will join Oni as a Publishing Consultant "Bill is universally respected throughout our industry, and with good reason: As a retailer,[...]

As publisher Boom Studios nears the end of their presentation at ComicsPRO's Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, the tag team of Vice President of Sales Josh Hayes, Sales Manager Rosalind Morehead, and Retail Sales Coordinator Manny Castellanos turned to more retailer-facing announcements Namely the debut of the new and improved Boom Guarantee "2.023." We see what[...]

Publisher Boom Studios is keeping us busy with their announcements at ComicsPRO's Annual Meeting, currently taking place in Pittsburgh Not that we're complaining, we'll happily take it over a slow news day First, they announced a 15% cut in variant covers, then they revealed they were upgrading both Christopher Cantwell and Germán García's dark Sleeping[...]

The announcements are coming fast-and-furious out of publisher Boom Studios' presentation at ComicsPRO's Annual Meeting taking place currently in Pittsburgh First, they announced a 15% cut in variant covers, and then they revealed an extension of Christopher Cantwell and German Garcia's dark Sleeping Beauty remix, Briar Then Boom Studios Sales Manager, Rosalind Morehead, revealed that[...]

Boom Studios wasted no time with announcements during their presentation at today's ComicsPRO Retailer Summit Following their announced 15% cut in variant covers in 2023, Boom Studios Sales Manager, Rosalind Morehead, announced Christopher Cantwell and Germán García's Briar is being promoted to an ongoing series with a second story arc slated for the fall[...]

Cebulski this morning, publisher Boom Studios kicked off the publisher presentations at the first in-person ComicsPRO Annual Comic Industry Meeting since 2020 As we previously mentioned, the preponderance of variant covers have been an issue expressed among retailers, in terms of increasing market confusion, increasing their workload, and for valuing covers over the content of the[...]

Gossip coming out of the ComicsPRO Retailer Summit, which started today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, may make for major changes in the direct market The last time there was in in-person summit was before the pandemic there was just one major distributor to the direct market of comic book stores, Diamond Comic Distributors Diamond shutting down[...]

But today at ComicsPRO, DC Comics representatives announced that their manga titles published in Japan by Japanese publisher Kodansha, Superman vs Meshi, Batman: Justice Buster, and Joker: One Operation Joker will be released in English in 2023 They will initially be published digitally first, in  a webtoon serialised format for DC Universe Infinite subscribers and[...]

But today at ComicsPRO, DC Comics representatives announced Knight Terrors, by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Guillem March, and more. Chris Bachalo will  also return to DC for the first time in over 20 years since the days of Death and will create a Knight Terrors story for DC Comics' Free Comic Book Day title now retitled[...]

And now Ajax Sigma is going to fight back. You can keep up with the ComicsPRO Retailer Summit on Bleeding Cool right here The ComicsPRO Comic Industry Conference takes place in the first quarter of each year and is meant to be a chance for all store-front comic retailers (members and non-members) to meet with comic[...]

Cebulski has just announced a new comic book event alongside their Summer Of Symbiotes promotion at Marvel Comics this summer, Contest Of Chaos, saying that it is "an upcoming Marvel Comics saga that challenges your favorite heroes to embrace their inner chaos" and they have a handy cover from Bryan Hitch, saying "Witness the corruption[...]

Right now, as ComicsPRO 2023 is beginning in Pittsburgh, PA, Oni is continuing to roll out its promised slate of news and announcements Sierra Hahn had signed on as the publisher's new Editor-in-Chief Yesterday, they announced that former Third Eye Comics retailer Michael Torma was also coming aboard as to lead the company's sales strategy,[...]