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Transcripts of previous court sessions in the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy case have been unsealed And, amongst other things, concern the appearance of Alliance Entertainment (or AENT) CEO Bruce Ogilvie on the Industry Of Comics comic book retailer podcast withBryan McClay, Dennis Barger and Jesse James And how it may have created complications[...]

As seen in court filings, Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the Debtors in the Diamond Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, has announced that they intend to sell Diamond UK to the management of Diamond UK for just over two million dollars They seek court authorisation to sell the shares they own in the two bodies Comic Exporters[...]

Universal Distribution, which bought Alliance Gaming as part of Diamond Comic Distributors' Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will be using its purchase to start distributing comic books to US comic book stores as well as Canadian comic book stores And they are also the first distributor outside of Lunar Distribution to be allowed to sell DC Comics[...]

Bleeding Cool previously reported on a series of filings from many comic book publishers, the Baltimore bankruptcy courts dealing with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of Diamond Comic Distributors And all regarding whether or not Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the debtors in this case, can liquidate the consignment stock they hold, belonging to hundreds of[...]

Image Comics has joined a number of comic book publishers in filing objections against Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the debtors in the Diamond Chapter 11 bankruptcy case They are planning to sell off consigned inventory from hundreds of comic book publishers, as if it was their own The difference between Image Comics and other publishers[...]

After appeals from many comic book publishers, the Baltimore bankruptcy courts dealing with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of Diamond Comic Distributors have shifted the date of the liquidation hearing until after San Diego Comic-Con Well after.  Today's hearing on the matter of scheduling the hearing on whether or not Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the[...]

Comic book publishers assemble! Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the debtors in the Diamond Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has been planning to sell off consigned inventory from hundreds of comic book publishers, as it was their own, to benefit the bankers in this bankruptcy Yesterday saw a number of coalitions formed by a number of prominent[...]

The currently troubled publisher, fresh from the greatest betrayal by Diamond Comic Distributors, will be joining the likes of Image Comics, Oni Press, and others across multiple retail channels, especially handy with their recent Disney and Warner Bros licensed titles, ThunderCats, Zootopia, Space Ghost, Stitch and much more as well as more prose, children's, and[...]

Bleeding Cool has been covering in depth the plans of the Debtors of the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy,  to liquidate the consignment stock owned by hundreds of publishers, a situation that Fantagraphics has called "holding hostage inventory that they do not own." And that this was to be decided by the courts on[...]

The plans of the debtors of the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy to liquidate the consignment stock owned by hundreds of publishers, to raise money to pay off Diamond's debt to the banks, have to go to the court to be ratified Comic book publishers had been objecting and started to organise over such[...]

About me & what I'm looking for:" I'm looking for Marketing Director, Director of Public Relations, Public Relations Specialist, Senior Editor, and Editor roles. I'm open to roles in San Diego and Southern California, but would happily work remotely for companies based elsewhere. I've previously worked at Mad Cave Studios, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, and Diamond Comic Distributors. Keith[...]

Thanks to the US Bankruptcy courts unsealing transcripts, we have been looking at previous courtroom activity over the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy process That includes a blow-by-blow take on the bankruptcy timeline by Mark Minuti from the legal firm Saul Ewing, representing Diamond Comic Distributors, the debtors of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy And[...]

Thanks to the US Bankruptcy courts unsealing previous court transcripts, we have seen how the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy sale seemed to go without a hitch Then the events that directly occurred after the auction, that saw winning bidder Alliance Entertainment or AENT pushed aside in preference to the back-up joint bidders Universal and Ad[...]

At the auction of Diamond Comic Distributors as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures, the winning bidder was Alliance Entertainment or AENT, who paid over $70 million, higher than the next-best joint bidders of Ad Populum/Sparkle Pop and Universal Distributors But then, after announcing AENT as the winner, Diamond suddenly announced that the back-up bidders[...]

A number of sealed transcripts from previous court hearings earlier in the year regarding the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy have now been unsealed, and they make for riveting reading for Bleeding Cool Including just how the bankruptcy auction went down… at least according to the representatives of Diamond Comic Distributors, the debtors of[...]

He writes; "Notice to all publishers and vendors who distributed products through Diamond Diamond or its successor entities have publicly moved to sell inventory currently in its warehouses without publishers' consent Several publishers are pooling their resources together to challenge these proposed sales procedures for this inventory If you represent a company with inventory currently warehoused[...]

I previously reported that TwoMorrows Publishing had filed a legal objection to the plans of the debtors of the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy to liquidate the consignment stock owned by hundreds of publishers, to raise money to pay off Diamond's debt to the banks And that this was to be decided by the[...]

John Morrow, publisher of TwoMorrows Publishing, has filed a legal objection to the plans of the debtors of the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy to liquidate the consignment stock owned by hundreds of publishers, to raise money to pay off Diamond's debt to the banks And that this was to be decided by the[...]

Along with many games, toys and comic book publishers, they have been heavily hit by the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Diamond Comic Distributors In a letter to their customers that cites Bleeding Cool they state; #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php[...]

At the end of May, I reported that Dynamite Entertainment had filed paperwork with the US Bankruptcy Courts regarding the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Diamond Comic Distributors Claiming that payments that should have been made for comic books and merchandise delivered, should be counted as "administrative expenses", with hundreds of pages of listings of items[...]

An executive at Ad Populum, the company that purchased Diamond Comic Distributors, has confirmed to Bleeding Cool that Ad Populum has been restricted from dealing directly with any consignment vendors and has had to go through the bankruptcy estate for everything, including any correspondence And that Ad Populum sincerely hopes that this changes very soon. Just[...]

At the end of May, Dynamite Entertainment filed paperwork with the US Bankruptcy Courts regarding the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Diamond Comic Distributors, now bought by Ad Populum Dynamite is claiming that payments that should have been made for comic books and merchandise delivered, should be counted as "administrative expenses", with hundreds of pages of[...]

During the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Skyrush Marketing of New York City and Long Island posted a press release saying that they had been selected as the highest bidder for Collectable Grading Authority (CGA), the Diamond-owned collectables grading business in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction for Diamond Comic Distributors CGA offers authentication and grading services for[...]

Diamond's ComicSuite is a customised software option that integrates with Retail Hero's Retailer Management Hero to create a point-of-sale system specifically geared toward comic book speciality retailers Six weeks ago, I reported on Bleeding Cool that Diamond Comic Distributors was laying off Comicsuite, Pullbox, and their website tech support department after it was agreed that[...]

The Exit Interviews for the six members of Diamond Comic Distributors who quit on the same day to go work for Alliance Entertainment, following Mike Schimmel, and kicking off another lawsuit in the ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of the comic book publisher, have been unsealed And they paint a picture of a distributor that[...]

I understand through a variety of comic book industry sources that a number of prominent comic book publishers will be filing paperwork as part of the Diamond Comic Book Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy paperwork Some of this may be aimed at Ad Populum/Sparkle Pop, the new owners of Diamond, over the lack of payments to[...]

And according to sources, Universal Distribution will use Alliance Gaming infrastructure, which they acquired in the Diamond Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction, to distribute comics to the USA, something that Diamond was also doing with this infrastructure before the bankruptcy Universal have a structure and system more similar to that of Diamond Comic Distruibutors, so retailers[...]

As part of Diamond Comic Distributor's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, they have listed the contract they have with San Diego Comic-Con to man a booth every year at the show But what now? An employee still at Diamond with knowledge of the situation tells me that "Diamond is not attending San Diego Comic-Con this year for[...]

Emily Botica has been at Diamond Book Distributors for 18-and-a-half years, with the last almost eight years as Vice President of Client Services, Before that, she was Director, Sales & Marketing.  Associate Director, Sales & Marketing and Sales Manager She came to Diamond after six years at Borders as a Marketing Specialist and then Buyer[...]

Bleeding Cool has previously reported that Diamond Comic Distributors Inc – the debtor entity in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Diamond that is responsible for the bankruptcy debt, and not the new owner of Diamond, Ad Populum, is asking the court's permission to liquidate stock in its possession That is stock that is not owned[...]