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Stay tuned later this week for the official announcement out of ComicsPro." … check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. Hel On Earth The Queen in Black is a major Marvel Comics crossover event scheduled to launch in July 2026 by Al Ewing and Iban Coello and spins directly out of the ongoing Venom series[...]

At the ComicsPRO retailer event being held at Glendale, California, ten minutes from DC Comics' offices in Burbank, with Vertigo Editor Chris Conroy taking the lead at a retailer event, DC Comics announced more from DC Vertigo coming in 2026, including where Wave Two will be lined up And he began by announcing that the[...]

Some help in the comments, maybe? To commemorate the milestone, and for ComicsPRO week, IDW has crafted a blind bag programme featuring multiple versions of a never-before-seen cover from co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, a J Scott Campbell variant, and more surprises to be revealed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 comic will kick off[...]

At the ComicsPRO retailer event being held at Glendale, California, ten minutes from DC Comics' offices in Burbank, we had Absolute Group Editor Chris Conroy taking the lead at a retailer event DC Comics announced a new Absolute Universe series, unnamed, for later this year "It's the first Absolute Universe event This will be in[...]

… check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. Photo courtesy of retailer And everyone was quite content to have a new Mind MGMT comic book coming Until today … because Oni Press has unveiled that it is has devised an elaborate means to taking Kindt's signature work on psychic espionage and paranoid tension off[...]

Stay tuned later today for the official announcement." That will be at the ComicsPRO event later today Maybe they'll tell us who Pruet or Pruett is … check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. ARMAGEDDON ASSEMBLES Which Spider-Man that is being teased we can't say, though Miles Morales is involved with the impact of[...]

It's all go at ComicsPRO, the comic book industry event being held in Glendale, California, with retailers, publishers, distributors and creators ready to glad hand, or glad any part of the human body you'd care to name However, disaster has struck as there is currently only one elevator/lift working for the hotel.  They are hopeful[...]

And it was probably handy that they cancelled Red Hood as well… And even if we get the final issue of  H2SH Part One, will we ever get Part Two, meant to be its own mini-series, let alone H3SH? It will join the 1963 Annual and Pearl Of The Deep with Alan Moore, WildCATS with Grant[...]

How did this time of year suddenly get so busy in comics all of a sudden? We just had the Marvel Creators Retreat in New York, ComicsPRO is about to kick off in Glendale, and next week, the not-reported-anhywhere DC Comics Summit will be taking place in Burbank We noted how She-Hulk and Daredevil writer[...]

When I Was Five by Mark Waid and David Lapham is another of the very rare Bad Idea "Secret Six comics" and will only be available to and from 99 specific comic book stores whose owners or employees are attending the comic book retailer activist group annual meeting ComicsPRO in Glendale, California next week Expect[...]

Battle Quest is a perfect fit as we continue to expand the program, and we couldn't be more excited to bring their books to comic retailers in 2026." The 27 Run In 2026, comic stores will again be able to order the publisher's core titles, No'Madd: The Unconquerable, Steel Siege, The 27 Run and The Trident of[...]

The new Local Comic Shop Day 2025 will be upon us very soon, as organised by ComicsPRO And Bleeding Cool has a first look at all the Local Shop Day comics appearing in comic shops for Saturday, the 24th of September, including variants, merch and advance-of-publication debuts from publishers across the comics industry, from a[...]

Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum have been named Ambassadors for Local Comic Shop Day, relaunching on Saturday, the 27th of September, from ComicsPRO As ambassadors, Oswalt and Blum are expected to be the voice of a campaign created to generate enthusiasm for the celebration while also connecting the community to comic shops. "Having Patton Oswalt and[...]

ComicsPRO, organisers of Local Comic Shop Day, the annual event honouring brick-and-mortar comic shops, have stated that it is getting a full revamp for 2025, after a fallow year in 2024 And promise "new branding, new activities, and new ways to celebrate why we shop local when we shop nerdy The event, which will take[...]

On Friday, the MCM London Comic Con hosted a ComicsPRO event, the first such in the UK ComicsPRO is a retailer activist organisation that took over running the annual retailer summits in the US from Diamond Comic Distribution And two of its members, ComicsPro Board Member & Director of Education Shannon Live and her husband[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott And filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above The return of his legendary comics anthology A1, as well as the comics/music magazine that birthed Tank Girl, Deadline, in one title The A1 DEADLINE Summer Special will be coming to Kickstarter in July for a[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott and filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above, The Double Feature Mechanical Cake anthology, from Mechanical Cake, the comic book publisher working with Ridley Scott and his studio, Scott Free Featuring stories from their Modville and Nick titles Double Feature Mechanical Cake is coming to[...]

Aubrey Sitterson and Jed Dougherty's Free Planet #1 is out today from Image Comics, and it might have put a little fire under the sales of the Comicspro ashcan. Previously, author Aubrey Sitterson told me, "Because Free Planet was expressly designed for the print, periodical format, we printed up 407 copies of the first issue, which I hand numbered and gave[...]

Coming out of ComicsPRO, a couple of weeks ago, we scooped that the publisher brought out creators Cullen Bunn, Leah Williams, Jim McCann, Stephanie Williams, and Si Spurrier as part of the announcement of their initial slate of creators – which also included Mike Tisserand (The Dragon Prince), Marika Cresta (Star Wars: High Republic), Joe Eisma (Riverdale), Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), and The Miranda Brothers (Blade Forger) with hints[...]

Aubrey Sitterson tells me "because Free Planet was expressly designed for the print, periodical format, we printed up 407 copies of the first issue, which I hand numbered and gave out at ComicsPRO As of right now, one has already sold on eBay for $149.99 and there are three others currently available for $119.99, $275 and $299.99[...]

At ComicsPRO, Hunter Gorinson said, "This comic is based on a true story from Dave's life In the early 2000s, he perpetrated one of the first viral hoaxes on the internet by posing as a 16-year-old lead singer of a black metal band from Gary, Indiana, that taunted Norwegian black metal labels so badly they[...]

James Tynion IV took to ComicsPRO last weekend to talk about his publishing imprint-across-publishers, Tiny Onion But, James, what exactly is Tiny Onion? come to the stage and tell us all, please" ComicsPRO screencap "What is Tiny Onion? It is a little complicated, you know, like there is the line that we have in our fancy pitch[...]

As Dan Crary, Director of Marketing & Communications at Oni, said at last week's ComicsPRO looking at industry moves, "Atom Freeman went from Bad Idea to Worst Idea, I mean Prana! You know I love you!" No news as to whether or not Freeman had Crary taken outside and shot But Freeman did have a[...]

The original article continues: Getting over his mock-nerves, comic book writer, artist and publisher Chip Zdarsky took to the stage at ComicsPRO last week The gathering of hundreds of comic book retailers in Glendale, California hadn't seen anything quite like it Not even Mike Kelly cosplaying as Josh Hayes He began… "One minute warning already, what[...]

At the ComicsPRO event, Hunter Gorinson of Oni Press took to the stage to talk the Nacelleverse and Biker Mice From Mars. He brought with him the founder of the Nacelle company and the creator of The Toys That Made Us TV series, Brian Volk-Weiss. ComicsPRO screencap Who took the opportunity to reminisce about Nick's Comic Book Shop in New York,[...]

Last week saw ComicsPRO hit Glendale, California, as hundreds of retailers, publishers, creators and distributors, gathered, and attendees walked away with swag bags full of exclusive comics A number of which have been flipped on eBay and listed… with plenty getting sold So far Batman Hush 2 and Exquisite Corpses are topping the sales list[...]

This weekend at the 2025 ComicsPro Event in Glendale California, in response to current events within the distribution infrastructure of the comic book industry, otherwise known as Diamond Comic Distributors announcing Chapter 11 bankruptcy,  Z2 unveiled its Direct To Retail program, in an effort to provide additional options and opportunities for retailers that wish to[...]

Namely Cullen Bunn, Leah Williams, Jim McCann, Stephanie Williams and Si Spurrier, who all travelled to Glendale, California, for ComicsPRO this past weekend for the Ignition Press announcements and to talk to comic book retailers about their plans… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]

Over the weekend at ComicsPRO, Ghost Machine announced a new title, Sisterhood, featuring the character Sister Hood She will appear in Hyde Street #5 in April and then spin off her own comic book, Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story The year-old creator-owned Image imprint made the announcement at ComicsPro along with news that Sisterhood co-creator[...]

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