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Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 But he wants it to be clear that this is not just a bunch of[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the first[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 He talked to me earlier this week about what he's doing and why he's doing[...]

Image Comics' President Todd McFarlane announced his plan to create a greater multi-character, interconnected comic book universe based around his Spawn comic at the retailer summit, ComicsPRO His stated goal is to establish a shared fictional universe over time in the vein of what the other comic industry giants, Marvel, and DC Comics, have accomplished[...]

Being given to retailers at the retail summit ComicsPRO being held today and tomorrow is the return of Wizard Magazine The comic book fan magazine that would outsell many of the comic books it wrote about, was a keystone publication for American nineties comic books, before losing its way in the noughties, before coming to[...]

Comic book publishers were told yesterday and comic book retailers will be told at the ComicsPRO retailer summit today that Diamond Comic Distributors is closing their New Memphis, Tennessee warehouse and distribution centre, with all functions transferring to their Olive Branch, Mississippi distribution centre It is understood that this is a direct result of DC[...]

Expect this to be one of a number of topics at today's ComicsPRO retailer summit. Since the pandemic, lockdown and shutdowns that affected the comic book industry, a number of comic book publishers increased the amount of comic books that they made returnable to comic book stores The idea was to protect retailers from sudden[...]

The comic book retailer activist organisation, ComicsPRO are launching their first online retailer meeting on the 18th and 19th of February this year. ComicsPRO Launch Their First Online Retailer Meeting In February Over thirty vendors are lined up to participate and the ComicsPRO Keynote Speaker will be Kazu Kibuishi, creator of the graphic novel Amulet, And the[...]

James Haick, President of Scout Comics writes about a new product launch at ComicsPRO last weekend You can catch up with all of Bleeding Cool's ComicsPRO coverage right here. My name is James Haick and I became President and partner at Scout Comics and Entertainment a little over a year ago Never in my wildest dreams[...]

ComicsPRO was this weekend at Portland, Oregon, was rather overshadowed by the firing of DC Publisher Dan DiDio So we are rather playing catch up with some of the news announced, apologies for our tardiness But that included Mad Cave Studios launching Mad Cave Champions, a new rewards initiative to provide retailers exclusive offers on all[...]

No variants, no digital, no collections, no Diamond distribution. We suspected that they might possibly be ripped limb from limb when they arrived at ComicsPRO this week. However, they appear to weathered the storm more than well, announcing that they were increasing their "first wave" of stores to 50 in the face of an ocean of emails,[...]

DC Comics were scheduled to appear in strength at ComicsPRO being held at Portland, Oregon right now However, I am told by connected individuals that DC cancelled most of their ComicsPRO appearances No one showed up on the first day, and DC Comics missed their hour-long presentation shot ComicsPRO gave DC the chance to make[...]

Today at ComicsPRO, in Portland, Oregon, as DC Comics executives were dashing out of the door, Nick Barrucci, CEO of Dynamite Entertainment, gave the ComicsPRO keynote speech He has allowed Bleeding Cool to reproduce it in its entirety.  Good morning fellow comic lovers! It's great to see you here I know it's not easy leaving the stores[...]

We wondered how that would go over at ComicsPRO. Well, they had to make changes For a start, they are increasing the first wave to fifty stores, not twenty Plus, everyone at ComicPRO will be made eligible to sign up as a Bad Idea-approved retailer this weekend if they wish, immediately after their presentation — and[...]

Ralph Mathieu of Alternate Reality Comics, Las Vegas is attending ComicsPRO in Portland, Oregon, the retailer advocacy group's annual summit As we have detailed in depth, retailers attending the show can benefit from quantities of swag, as well as knowledge, insight and industry networking opportunities But the swag does figure large Here's what Ralph picked up[...]

At 12:17pm PT, The Beat posted an Exclusive transcript of the address to ComicsPRO by Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry, in which they talked about the importance of publishers managing launches, understanding comic stores and buyers, and lesson from Trader Joe's, as well as launching a number of new titles It was a rather good[...]

At ComicsPRO, Dynamite announces the first of many planned collections compiling Christopher Priest's run on Vampirella, due out in April. Titled Seduction of the Innocent, and named after Dr Wertham's puritanical tome, this first trade paperback will collect issues #1-6 as well as the Free Comic Book Day 2019 #0 issue that kicked off the 50th-anniversary[...]

That means it's someone even bigger. So Hollywood seems like the answer – after all, Boom is one of the most active publishers in the space and now attract A level talent like Seth Rogen to their projects. But just who could be behind this project? I expect the bar chatter at ComicsPRO this week, along with[...]

And we can't wait to see what Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen has to say about this move – will he escalate the war he started with Boom? At ComicsPro, Boom's Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry announced the company has signed Al Ewing (the writer behind Immortal Hulk, which made waves for outselling Batman) to release[...]

Not content with only having Image Comics co-founder and CFO Erik Larsen waging a war against them, it looks like Boom Studios has poked the bear in Burbank and scored themselves a defector from DC Comics with Tom Taylor, the writer behind some of their biggest books in the last five years including Injustice and[...]

sacredsix, all lower case, is a new ongoing series by Christopher Priest, Gabriel Ibarra and Jae Lee, spinning out of Priest's Vampirella series from Dynamite, is scheduled for May this year, and talked about at ComicsPRO today, where CEO Nick Barrucci will be giving a Keynote speech, Enter: a tale of two towns in rural Georgia[...]

Boom Studios just kicked off their ComicsPRO presentation – straight into Bleeding Cool's inbox, by going back to their biggest book – Power Rangers Yes, the series where Boom sold 800 copies in 15 minutes at one store of issue #25. With those same Power Rangers still driving buzz amongst readers and collectors, retailers' ears perked[...]

So… who's going to ComicsPRO? Portland Oregon awaits for comic book retailers, publishers, distributors and the like to gather… and present Here's a few who are chatty on social media about the whole If anyone else wants to share something, e-mail me on richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.  And catch up with more #ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tag. Dark[...]

Bad Idea is going to the ComicsPRO summit, you know, the retailer activist group's meeting, freash after announcing that the new publisher will be selling comics from only twenty stores that fulfil its stringent criteria, growing to only fifty stores by the end of the year. People who are not part of that twenty are going[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has revealed their EX-X-XCLUSIVE variants for the upcoming ComicsPRO Annual Meeting in Portland later this month The variants include an Alienated #1 variant by Özgür Yildirim, as well as variants for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 and #2 by George Caltsoudas, and will be given away for free[...]

At the ComicsPRO meeting of comic book retailers at Charlotte, North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio talked to assembled retailers there about the state of the industry and the issues facing DC Comics And a few folk have passed a few of them on to Bleeding Cool Probably a[...]

At the ComicsPRO meeting of comic book retailers at Charlotte, North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio talked to assembled retailers there about the Walmart DC Exclusive 100-Page Giants Four – and then six – monthly titles reprinting DC Comics with exclusive stories from DC's most popular talents. And he has[...]

The ComicsPRO summit was held a couple of weekends ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which comic book retailers met to discuss the state of the industry, meet publisher, distributors, creators and more There were a bunch of announcements made, discussions had, speeches given and solutions proposed. One group of attendees was particularly notable, representatives from[...]

The ComicsPRO summit was held a couple of weekends ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which comic book retailers met to discuss the state of the industry, meet publisher, distributors, creators and more There were a bunch of announcements made, discussions had, speeches given and solutions proposed. And while some news made it out straight away[...]

We ran the full text of Bob Wayne's Keynote speech at comic book retailer advocacy meeting ComicsPRO last weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as that of Brian Hibbs, owner of the Comix Experience stores in San Francisco  But he was also joined in that endeavour by Joe Field, of Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff in[...]