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Well, anything Diamond can do, Penguin Random House can do as well Today they issued retailers with an apology, e-mailing out the following; We are aware that there was an outage on .Biz from 8:08pm EST January 17th to 7:00am EST January 18th that directly impacted many of you placing your FOC orders We sincerely apologize[...]

We get a look at next week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors for comics shipping in March 2022 and beyond, with Scott Snyder and GHreg Capullo#s We Have Demons #1 on the front cover from Dark Horse and Kurt Busiek's Astro City from Image Comics on the reverse The Invincible line of action figures[...]

CEX Publishing is the latest publisher to announce a distribution deal with Lunar Distribution, effective for January 2021-shipping books. CEX joins an

Steve Geppi of Diamond Comic Distributors has announced the launch of Geppi Treasury, a collection of important pieces of pop art and collectibles from the last hundred years now available for fractional ownership as NFTs The first piece to be offered to the public is the 1937 movie poster illustration for Snow White and the[...]

Ten days ago, Bleeding Cool told you that a handful of high-profile Marvel titles ordered through Diamond Comic Distributors would be delayed a week Now it seems they have been delayed two weeks Diamond have told affected retailers that "Due to a systems issue affecting Penguin Random House that impacted customers serviced by Diamond's New[...]

Their books have already started to be added to the "publisher discounts" section of the Lunar Distribution website, and will be joining the FOC offerings in weeks to come. Oni Press was previously known as a Diamond Comic Distributor-exclusive publisher, but the shutdown and payment delay from Diamond during the pandemic may have made such contractual[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of Reorders stats from Diamond Comic Distributors Okay, so no DC Comics and reduced Marvel Comics, but still… it helps House Of[...]

Devin Funches will be joining Diamond Book Distributors as their new Sales Manager overseeing sales to mass merchandise retailers and to independent booksellers Devin Funches worked at Boom Studios from 2010 to 2015, first as Marketing & Sales Assistant and then E-Commerce & Inventory Coordinator He worked as a Sales Manager and the Sales And[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors announced that Josh Hayes has stepped away from his role at Diamond Books His last day at the distributor will be on the 3rd of December. A University of Michigan graduate in business, computers, and literature, Josh Hayes spend four months at Borders as a Senior Planner/Analyst and then Buyer He was headhunted[...]

Two weeks ago, Diamond Comic Distributors and associated websites such as Previewsworld, Diamond UK, Hake's Auctions, Geppi Family Enterprises and more, went down and stayed down over the whole weekend Diamond's retailer website went back up in time for Marvel's Final Order Cut-Off, but has only been sporadically updated since It turns out that they[...]

Diamond Previews time Or is it? Apparently, the FTP site that comics publishers use to upload their images to Diamond Comic Distributors for Previewsworld is what's down and why there are a lot of missing images and solicitations today But Bleeding Cool is doing its best as ever on a Diamond Day like today And[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors have let retailers know that "due to a systems issue affecting Penguin Random House", the following Marvel Comics titles — originally solicited with an on-sale date of November 24th  will now arrive one week late with comics intended to be sold on the 1st of December." This also means that stores that[...]

And that was the Thought Bubble that was… LITG: The ten most-read stories, yesterday Yes, Adventure Time Fan Hugh Jackman Singing Bacon Pancakes Is Cool Diamond Comics Issues Shipping Warning To Comic Shops For This Week The Wheel of Time: Amazon Announces Animated Prequel Shorts Series Major Harry Potter Character Revealed As Evil In Wizards Unite Twist When Jim Lee Drew[...]

Now Diamond Comic Distributors has informed comic book stores that they are "advised that retailers can expect shipments of product on sale November 17 throughout next week All retailers expected to receive their shipments by Friday, November 19 Additionally, we are working to confirm pick-up dates and times for November 17 on-sale product at our[...]

Yesterday, Diamond Comic Distributors gave retailers an update on deliveries, hit by the ransomware attack and by general shipping and distribution delays all round, really, as many comic book retailers reported not getting deliveries. Diamond Comic Distributors Product with an on-sale date of November 10 will be arriving from Diamond Comics over the next 2-4 days throughout[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has set up an emergency back-up website to deal with current retailer concerns while they also deal with a ransomware attack that took down their main website, and those of their partner companies, over the weekend.  Diamond Comic Distributors and associated websites such as Previewsworld, Diamond UK, Hake's Auctions, Geppi Family Enterprises[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors and associated websites such as Previewsworld, Diamond UK, Hake's Auctions, Geppi Family Enterprises and more, went down on Friday and stayed down over almost the whole weekend Yesterday, Diamond's retailer website went back up in time for Marvel's Final Order Cut-Off, but has not been updated It turns out that they had[...]

Thank FOC It's Friday –  Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors on Monday And now Lunar Distribution and Penguin Random House on Sunday as well So here's this week's comics product coming through that may need adjusting as demand slips and slides with the emerging[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors tweeted out the news I'm quite impressed they got that to work "We are currently experiencing systems issues which may affect order processing and communications We appreciate your patience." That means Diamond Pullbox, Previewsworld, the retailer site, Diamond UK, Alliance Games, Hake's Americana & Collectibles, Geppi Family Enterprises, and more of their[...]

DC Comics are no longer part of the Diamond Comic Distributors picture and Marvel and IDW are about to be a lot less But for now, the most-ordered comics by comic stores in North America through Diamond Comic Distributors in September was Star Wars: War Of The Bounty Hunters #4 beating out the finale of Nick[...]

Diamond Previews time! As Bleeding Cool scooped a month ago, Dynamite Entertainment is relaunching the Pantha series, "Once a cruel Pharoah, now cursed to transform into a savage beast, Dynamite Entertainment's Pantha returns in a new series from Tom Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson, and Igor Lima" and on the front cover of next week's Diamond Previews catalogue[...]

This week there have been a lot of delays hitting the comics industry. Whether from printers or publishers, from distributors or delivery trucks, a number

Diamond Comic Distributors has just acquired ownership of the Atlanta-based Collectible Grading Authority (CGA), an industry leader in action figure and video game grading Steve Geppi, Founder and CEO of Diamond and parent company Geppi Family Enterprises told retailers today that "this acquisition further supports our mission to be the leading source for pop[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on early issues with Penguin Random House's distribution of Marvel Comics, to whom they are now an exclusive distributor to the direct market of comic book stores in the USA (Diamond still does them to the UK) I learned that Marvel Comics is aware of the issues and SVP David Gabriel[...]

They are now also distributing Ahoy Comics and Scout Comics, and have ambitions to join Diamond in becoming a wholesale distributor of Marvel Comics to other retailers, from Marvel's own exclusive direct market distributor, Penguin Random House This means that not only is DCBS a customer of Penguin Random House for Marvel Comics titles, but[...]

DC Comics are no longer part of the Diamond Comic Distributors picture and Marvel and IDW are about to be a lot less But for now, the most-ordered comics by comic stores in North America through Diamond Comic Distributors in August was King Spawn #1 by quite the degree We know it had 497,000 orders,[...]

The Diamond Best Practices Awards (BPAs) for comics shops were voted on at last weekend's Diamond Retail Summit, for the categories of  Back Issue Display, Community Involvement, In-Store Signage, and Store Layout The Diamond nominees can be found here. Diamond Best Back Issue Display: Winner Generation X Comics Bedford, TX We have been unsatisfied with our back issue displays[...]

It has been quite a couple of years for Diamond Comic Distributors The pandemic shutdown, albeit only for a few weeks while Diamond instigated safer working practices for staff, saw DC Comics take advantage of the situation Because Diamond was not distributing DC Comics titles for that time, this broke DC's exclusive contract with them,[...]

Back in February, Bleeding Cool reported on Diamond Comic Distributors' new policy that was reducing publishers' abilities to make variant covers returnable Since the pandemic, lockdown, and shutdowns that affected the comic book industry, a number of comic book publishers had increased the amount of comic books that they made returnable to comic book stores[...]

The Diamond Best Practices Awards (BPAs) are returning for 2021, to demonstrate comic book industry "best practices" in comic shops The current round of Best Practices Awards, being announced next week, seek to honour achievements in Back Issue Display, Community Involvement, In-Store Signage, and Store Layout Retailers can vote from their Diamond accounts for the[...]