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The hospitality suite will take place during the Diamond Comics Distribution Summit but is not connected with the Summit "We wanted to give retailers an alternative to the programming that many of them have seen before and create a space where publishers and retailers alike can meet and relax,"  said Atom! Freeman, ComicHub's sales guy[...]

Considering how things have been going on HBO's final season of Game of Thrones, we're not sure how we feel about Bob Iger's confirmation that the next

BOOM! Studios has announced its EX-X-XCLUSIVES for the Diamond Retailer Summit: a black and white Paul Pope variant for Faithless #1 and a Dan Mora variant for Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #20 If you're having trouble remembering which is which, the one without the lesbians making out in the shower is Power Rangers. BOOM will[...]

Sold a Secret Wars first issue Sunday for $19 along with other 80s comics. Off topic is there any publishers that are up for an interview during the Las Vegas Diamond Summit? Feel free to let me know. If Free Comic Book Day was important to you this year more power to you This time I feel[...]

Through this program, retailers will no longer be forced to choose between a quick, easy transaction and a long term, larger ticket sale due to cashflow constraints. Ezpect more retailer promotional programmes to be revealed by Image Comics at the upcoming Diamond Summit in Las Vegas next month. Corey Hart, Director of Sales at Image Comics[...]

The Diamond Retailer Summit for comic book retailers, publishers and creators will be taking place in Las Vegas from May 18th to 20th As a way to encourage and reward retailers from attending, publishers often give away very rare Summit-only variant covers of their titles, which can be flipped for enough to pay for flights[...]

Not only did IDW announce his prequel to the original 1980s Transformers comic book, for which he wrote so much, but we also get a trailer to his new comic with Transformers' stable-mate, Geoff Senior. Also the word that To The Death will not be distruibuted to comic book stores via Diamond Comic Distributors, as might[...]

EXCLUSIVE: IDW will have an interesting new all-ages comic debuting this summer, as they invite you to meet a new hero named Canto!

Comic retailers attending this year's Diamond Summit in Las Vegas will be treated to a bit of a busman's holiday Getting a bus tour of comic stores in Las Vegas before the day's business begins. Running from 2pm till 6.30pm, on Saturday, May 18th, the trip costs attendees $15 – but they get back a $25 voucher[...]

We continue to follow Bill Schanes' adventures through his past as a Vice President at Diamond Comic Distributors, while walking round the finest graffiti and street artwork in Europe. Of course, this is not the first time he has travelled this far Indeed it seems that at Diamond he seems to have developed a wanderlust[...]

A lawsuit was initiated and the Hopi shut down the majority of their tourist operations in protest, making national news headlines. That wasn't the headline splash Marvel or the NFL wanted however, as they launched the series with a special promotion for comic book distributors (in a time before there was just Diamond). Former VP of Diamond[...]

We continue to follow Bill Schanes' adventures through his past as a Vice President at Diamond Comic Distributors, while walking round the finest street graffiti in Europe… He writes of the paperwork. While working for Diamond Comic Distributors, as one of my responsibilities, I attended international trade shows and conventions. In one particular 6-week stretch, I attended the[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced that its 2019 Retailer Summit for comic shop retailers will take place from Saturday, May 18th through to Monday, May 20th, 2019 in Las Vegas. The 2019 Retailer Summit will bring together the industry's retailers, publishers, key vendors, and Diamond staff for the 3-day trade-only event The summit will feature key supplier[...]

This is the front cover for next week's Diamond Previews, the September catalogue for comics shipping in November And it features the new Firefly series from Boom — who are part-owned by Fox Studios That's how things work these days… With Middlewest on the back cover. While the Marvel Previews has a certain Uncanny X-Men #1 on the[...]

Diamond Select Toys had one of the most-stuffed booths at SDCC this year There are so many new products coming from them — it really is astounding They have found a hit with their line of Gallery statues, and they are charging full force into those With good reason too — they are of great[...]

The winners of the Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Summer 2018 have been selected by retailers and were revealed on Friday, July 20th, at Diamond's San Diego Comic-Con Retailer Appreciation Lunch. The Diamond Retail BPAs seek to identify and honor comic book specialty retailers that demonstrate "best practices" in their stores, thereby offering their patrons and[...]

There appear to be some significant changes this past week from Diamond Comic Distributors UK. Longstanding General Manager John Hitchen, has been in charge of the operation since 1992 when Diamond bought Titan Distributors from Nick Landau and renamed it Diamond UK. However, he has taken a leave of absence in recent months and now it has[...]

Real Ghostbusters figures are coming from Diamond Select Toys The first assortment will feature Winston, Egon, and Slimer All three will be in their colored jumpsuits from the show, with plenty of accessories, and fully articulated Slimer will even come with a display support stand and three interchangeable faces Preorders will go live on June[...]

While the authorization doesn't guarantee that a strike will happen, Bathroom Bulletins has learned that North American comics monopoly Diamond is already preparing for the worst and hopes to continue shipping badly damaged orders to comic book retailers that arrive late and are missing critical inventory with no interruption of regular service. "Write this down: Diamond[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Diamond's secret shopper was back, but he showed up on a day when I was unable to be at the store I had to throw my wife under the bus and have her work — but I failed to remind her about not selling a[...]

The Olive Branch Distribution Center is experiencing new shipping delays for comic store reorders. Diamond Comic Distributors have told retailers that their warehouse was the victim to a contractor working on a neighbouring building to Diamond's Olive Branch Distribution Center One who cut the data lines, leaving them without access to their computer systems for most[...]

Vault Comics is once again proving itself to be a publisher of the people, as its latest press release comes with both the promise of free comics and a complaint about Diamond, the comics distribution monopoly which controls the direct market. According to Vault, due to an error "caused by Diamond," the second issues of both[...]

Image Comics made a brief presentation at the Diamond Retailer Summit, announcing a brand new comic by writer Skottie Young, artist Aaron Conley, colorist Jon Francois Beaulieu, and letterer Nate Piekos The comic is called Bully Wars. No, not like that It's a comic geared toward young adults, about a kid named Rufus who goes from[...]

But, uh… they're not telling us what they are. At the Diamond Retailer Summit, IDW gave its presentation during dinner, and though they promised these announcements would be a huge deal, all they were willing to share was this… And some of this… And a little of that… And some more of this… Well, they've got to save something[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit dinner at C2E2 in Chicago, Eric Powell took the stage for the Albatross Funnybooks presentation, and he used the opportunity to state the obvious: "oversaturation of products and tired gimmicks like alternate covers are killing our business." After a heavy sigh and some scattered applause from the crowd, Powell launched[...]

It's a brilliant plan, if Marvel's goal is simply to look good in quarterly sales reports, which all evidence of the past decades seems to indicate is the case. But no more! Er… maybe. Asked at their presentation at the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 if Marvel would eliminate this practice, which entices retailers to order extra[...]

Cebulski revealed the news at Marvel's presentation during the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 today According to Cebulski, starting with Avengers #1 and running throughout all of Marvel's fresh, shiny #1 issues, Marvel will introduce a new trade dress featuring the dual numbering Cebulski specifically called out the move as geared toward collectors The trade[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 today, Marvel's presentation was set to happen after lunch, with DC's presentation happening before that Marvel had some big news about the sales numbers for their landmark Amazing Spider-Man #800 — the comic has sold almost 300,000 copies to retailers so far That's a big accomplishment, even if it's less[...]

But when that lunch is at the Diamond Retailer Summit, and the VD stands for Visual Dictionaries, it's another story During their lunchtime presentation at the summit before C2E2, international book publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) revealed a slate of books that mostly consisted of visual dictionaries. They've got the Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary, the Star Wars Complete[...]

Navy has circled its battleships to lay siege to the comic book industry with a new graphic novel imprint, debuting at the Diamond Retailer lunch at C2E2 today Dead Reckoning, a division of Naval Institute Press, will launch with four graphic novels in September, including a reprint collection of the classic comic Don Winslow of the Navy (the[...]