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Today and yesterday, I spent most of the day reading Diamond Comic Distributors' Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. You know the story, or you can catch up with the list of previous stories at the bottom But Diamond, the biggest distributor in comic book history, went bankrupt, the company sold Diamond to Ad Populum/Sparkle Pop to pay[...]

It's going to be a big one, looking at the sale of Diamond UK to its management team, and the plan for Diamond to liquidate the consigned stock owned by hundreds of publishers, on behalf of JPMorgan Chase, the bank funding the bankruptcy proceedings. Two big witnesses have been named so far The Ad Hoc Committee[...]

The Ad Hoc Committee of Consignors, a legal body made up of comic book publishers Ablaze, American Mythology Productions, Avatar Press, Battle Quest Comics, Action Lab, Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Green Ronin, Hermes Press, Living the Line, Paizo, Udon and Zenescope, have added to their case against Diamond Comic Distributors in the bankruptcy courts The[...]

IPI Comics is probably best known right now for publishing the Human Fly licensed comics as well as other notable items. Well, as of today, and possibly a little late to the party, IPI Comics has decided, with effect of September 2025, not to solicit any new products to Diamond Comic Distributors, nor to fulfil any existing agreed solicitations,[...]

Along with the larger comic book publishers and the smaller publishers grouped together, a number of smaller comic book publishers submitted their own objections to the current Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc plans for their Chapter 11 bankruptcy case without legal representation Namely, the debtors intend to sell all the consigned stock owned by the publishers[...]

A transcript from the Diamond Comic Distributors chapter 11 bankruptcy court session held on the 30th of April has been unsealed Checking the Bleeding Cool Diamond Bankruptcy Timeline, we discover that this is the day that the courts approved of the sale of Diamond Comic Distributors to the joint back-up bid of Universal and Ad[...]

With Alliance Entertainment (AED) suing Diamond Comic Distributorsover allegations of fraud, and Diamond suing AENT for allegations of breaking confidentiality and poaching staff, we have borne witness to some of the inner machinations of both parties And have been able to create a timeline, including the allegations each side made AE is Alliance Entertainment, DCD[...]

There are two main groupings of comic book publishers who are filing paperwork against Diamond Comic Distributors Inc, the debtor in the current bankruptcy action, over the plans to sell consigned inventory owned by the publishers, but being sold off to benefit the banks who have funded the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings so far, such[...]

One of the publishers most vulnerable to the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy, and one of the most betrayed, I had been briefed to expect bad things of the publisher But as it stands, they have managed to make it through without the measures that some other publishers have been forced to undergo This has come[...]

It also happens to be owned by Steve Geppi, former owner of Diamond Comic Distributors, who is currently going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, not without levels of controversy However, the sale excluded "Gemstone Publishing, Diamond International Galleries" as well as other assets owned by "any relative of Steven A Geppi by third level of consanguinity,[...]

Court documents filed reveal that a critical hearing for Diamond Comic Distributors' Chapter 11 bankruptcy is scheduled for Baltimore courts for the 18th of August, presided over once again by Judge Rice The hearing will address Diamond Comic Distributors' liquidation motions for the sale or disposition of the consigned comic books, games and toys, owned[...]

In a significant development in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the Ad Hoc Committee of Consignors, made up of Ablaze, American Mythology Productions, Avatar Press, Battle Quest Comics, Action Lab, Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Green Ronin, Hermes Press, Living the Line, Paizo, Udon and Zenescope have filed paperwork to demand[...]

He sold to Diamond Comics Distributors in 1988, but as Bud Plant's Art Books, still sells comics, reprints and graphic novels… but is planning to bring it all to an end next Year Again As he says;   By Alan Light – Bud Plant Uploaded by SunOfErat, CC BY 2.0, Link "Ok, I threatened to do this back[...]

As we mentioned last week, the transcripts for the court hearings that saw Alliance Entertainment or AENT, challenge the fact that they had been knocked out as the highest bidder in the Diamond Chapter 11 bankruptcy case have been unsealed As shortly after it was declared that AENT were the highest bidder, Diamond Comic Distributors[...]

There are long waiting lists, and as spots are carried over from one show to the next, people waiting to get a place on the showfloor usually have to wait for someone to go bust,  go mad or get bought by another company to give that spot up. This is why it was weird to see[...]

Exactly who is still ordering through Diamond Comic Distributors right now, we don't know This is the company, bought by Sparkle Pop/Ad Populum that is separate from both Diamond UK and Diamond Comic Distributors Inc, which is the debtor body in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy that is currently trying to be allowed to sell off[...]

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[...]