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Comic book retailer activist group ComicsPRO has announced a Comic Industry One-Day Conference to be held on September 27th, in two weeks time, at the Baltimore Convention Center, alongside the Baltimore Comic-Con. This conference will feature a series of one-hour presentations to help retailers improve their businesses. "This is the first one-day conference we've organized." said Peter Dolan, President of[...]

AfterShock is a relatively new comic book publisher with some seriously impressive names for its string of creator-owned mini-series, including Animosity and Babyteeth. At the ComicsPRO retailer advocacy event held in Portland last week, they discussed a number of new retailer-focused initiatives, including care packages being sent to stores to show off the AfterShock range, and for[...]

But at the ComicsPRO retailer advocacy event held in Portland last week, Dark Horse Comics told the assembled retailers that Avatar: The Last Airbender would be getting into net series in the fall. Here are Wartman's new designs of Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph. #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[...]

At the ComicsPRO retailer advocacy event held in Portland last week, IDW Publishing announced that their standard 3% fee to reorder titles through Diamond reorder fee for its titles would be dropped from March 1st, reducing comic shop costs when ordering backstock from IDW. It means that supporting IDW's line of titles, including the Top Shelf books,[...]

But at the beginning of Death Of X, this happened, caught by the Terrigen Mist. Still, we know there are other versions out there, such as the preacher John Maddox. Recently Peter David wanted to insist that Multiple Man is not dead. And, spilling out of ComicsPRO is the word that we will be getting a new Multiple[...]

Original article up top, follow-up PR below. With DC Comics leaving the front section of Previews, alongside Marvel, that section for Diamond's Premier publishers was looking a little bare, with just Dark Horse, Image Comics and IDW. Well, finally, after over a decade of trying and pointing out how their marketshare was sometimes higher than Dark Horse, the[...]

He attended ComicsPRO in Portland this weekend when, in front of a crowd of comic book retailers he talked about BOOM! becoming a Premier publisher at Diamond Comic Distributors, moving their listings to the front of Previews and changing their contractual relationship with the distributor as a result He was joined in that endeavour by[...]

Revealed at the comic book retailer advocacy summit, ComicsPRO, being held at Portland this week, DC Comics laid out the schedule for some of the DC Zoom and DC Kids titles they revealed earlier in the month at the American Libraries Association event And while some of the months were mentioned, we didn't get the[...]

But, at ComicsPRO this week, Diamond launched a brand new system for the direct market with the big boys pulling the levers. Diamond Comic Distributors announced the upcoming release of Pullbox, a cloud-based software application that will allow comic shop customers a better way to preorder titles and products from their local comic book specialty shop. Described as[...]

The news was announced at ComicsPRO today prior to the press release. "I'm so proud for Mae to join Lion Forge, and to add editor Andrea Colvin to the Mae creative team," said Ha in the press release "I've always meant Mae to reach both comic shops and book stores, and no company is better suited[...]

Comic book writer Donny Cates wasn't at ComicsPRO this week, the meeting of comic book retailers, professionals, distributors and publishers But he sent a video to play out during the Marvel presentation to retailers. Anyone on here at ComicsPro?? You, uh…see my video?? ;) — DONNY⚡️CATES (@Doncates) February 22, 2018 Well, I wasn't actually at ComicsPRO either, though[...]

So they started their own spin-off Marvel Previews which was included with the Previews catalogue and which they naturally always got the cover. Well, in a month where the coming covers are Marvel and Image, DC Comics also wants some of the same and apparently their current agreement and lion share just isn't good enough –[...]

And this week we were told that the official announcement that Coates would be the new writer on Captain America will be coming next week, and that his debut chapter would be in May's Free Comic Book Day giveaway. Well, Marvel Comics felt they had to tell the comic book retailers assembled at the retailer summit[...]

We must applaud eBay user spurio1234the, a comic book retailer who has listed his ComicsPRO exclusive variant cover swag directly from the show while sitting at one of the presentation tables. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ But he's not the only[...]

Spinning out of the ComicsPRO presentations in Portland comes the sly bit of news that Amazing Spider-Man #794 is going to a third printing. The original issue sold out fast and went to a second printing using the cliffhanger page from that issue as the new cover, Norman Osborne receiving the Carnage symbiote, as everyone suddenly[...]

Perhaps we'll find out more at ComicsPRO Or maybe we'll get a Twitter denial in response to this article We'll let you know either way. Following the conclusion of the Old Woman Laura storyline in All-New Wolverine, May's issue of the title doesn't appear to name a new storyline and feels a bit final Check[...]

Gossip starts to spill out of ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group having their annual summit in Portland, right now I'm doing my best to keep my ears open in London, England to hear what filters through. One such nugget is that with the announcement that Donny Cates will be writing the new Venom series launching in May,[...]

And these May listings do seem to be a little finalistic. Is a Hulk #1 on the cards for June? To join Avengers #1, Thor #1 and probably Captain America #1, Amazing Spider-Man #1 and Iron Man #1 as well? Or may we get a Gates Of Valhalla-style intemim issue and a Hulk #1 in July? Maybe[...]

Maybe they'll mention it at ComicsPRO in Portland today. There will be no ongoing issue of The Mighty Thor in May 2018 following from April's finale, Mighty Thor #706 by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman. AT THE GATES OF VALHALLA! THE DEATH OF THE MIGHTY THOR finale • The battle against the Mangog is finished And the losses[...]

Retailers attending tomorrow's ComicsPRO summit in Portland will be able to take home a lot of swag This includes a couple of exclusive variant covers from Boom! Studios, one each per retailer. The first is Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation #1, which is already one of Boom!'s biggest launches in years, and may still be under-ordered based on[...]

Stephenson individually has been honored with ComicsPRO's Industry Appreciation Award and was named The Beat's Industry Person of the Year in 2014, as well as being ranked in the Top 10 on Bleeding Cool's Power List every year since its inception in 2012 Under Stephenson's watch, Image has onboarded an unprecedented number of game-changing new[...]

Voodoo Doughnut will be making specially designed Shadowman doughnuts for retailers attending the ComicsPRO 2018 Annual Membership Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Each of two designs adorned with a hand-piped rendition of the character's mask — chocolate on a vanilla frosted doughnut filled with chocolate Bavarian cream, or vanilla on a chocolate frosted doughnut filled with raspberry[...]

Both Diamond Comic Distributors, the monopoly distributor of most comic books to the direct market of comic book stores, and ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group, are both holding three-day summits in the next couple of months. Some retailers may go to both, many will go to one, most will go to none But can any of[...]

Both Diamond Comic Distributors, the monopoly distributor of most comic books to the direct market of comic book stores, and ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group, are both holding three-day summits in the next couple of months. Some retailers may go to both, many will go to one, most will go to none But can any of[...]

Top publishers such as Dark Horse, DC Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics come and share exciting new projects, while retailers get to network and learn about new business practices to help them succeed and thrive in today's retailing environment. And it looks like someone just read ComicsPRO's own press release about their event[...]

ComicsPRO, the trade association for comics speciality retailers, proudly announces the nominees for its annual Comic Industry Awards The awards honour those people who are or have been the best at what they do, making a significant difference in the business of the comic-book speciality market. There are two categories for the ComicsPRO Awards, the Industry Appreciation Award[...]

The secretive cabal of comic book retailers known as ComicsPRO has announced plans to hold its annual ritualistic gathering in Portland, Oregon in both 2018 and 2020 The shadowy organization, which counts amongst its membership some of the most powerful men and women in comics retail, invites all comic book retailers with storefront locations to[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you earlier in the week, the comic book retailer advocacy group ComicsPRO has been holding a Marvel conference call with editors and creators today, ostensibly to look at how the Generations one-shot comics currently on final orders will segue from Secret Empire to Marvel Legacy But it's also proved an opportunity[...]

I understand that members of the ComicsPro comic book retailer advocacy group have a group call scheduled with Marvel head honchos editorial, writers and artists this Friday. UPDATE: It was arranged two weeks ago to be about the flow between Secret Empire, Generations and Marvel Legacy #1. Though some retailers I have heard from may have other[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a report from ComicsPRO, sourced from several retailers, who talked about an address from Marvel SVP David Gabriel regarding poor industry response of late and where the blame lay – and of negative retailer response in the room We also sourced a response from retailer Dennis Barger who supported Gabriel's statements. Here is[...]