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DC Comics Wins Big in Diamond Gem Awards for 2018
While Marvel will be happy enough with the Top Dollar win and the Best New Series with Ewing and Bennett's Immortal Hulk. 2018 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Over 3% Winner: DC Comics Nominees: Image Comics Marvel Comics Dark Horse Comics IDW Publishing 2018 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Under 3% Winner: BOOM! Studios Nominees: Oni Press Valiant Entertainment Aftershock Comics Dynamite Entertainment Lion Forge Titan Comics 2018 Top Dollar[...]
2018 Direct Market Comics Sales Up On 2017 – By Over Half of One Percent
They still have most of them. IDW Publishing's Marvel Action: Spider-Man  #1, was IDW's top-selling comic book, landing at #460 for the year, and in market share beat out Dark Horse. Dark Horse's top comic book for the year Stranger Things #1, based upon the popular Netflix series, at #184. Here's how the top of the chart breaks down for the year… PUBLISHER DOLLAR SHARE UNIT SHARE MARVEL COMICS 38.24% 40.40% DC[...]
Bob Wayne, Keynote Speaker at ComicsPRO in Charlotte, North Carolina
Former SVP of DC Comics and current roving representative of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is to be the Keynote speaker at ComicsPRO Comic Industry Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, next month. Running from February 21st to the 23rd, Peter Dolan, ComicsPRO's President of the Board of Directors describes Bob thus; "Besides his role as Senior Vice-President of Sales[...]
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CEO Kevin Tsujihara, means that DC now rolls up under Lifford along with other areas of the business, including WB Consumer Products, Themed Entertainment and Global Franchise In her new role, Lifford is expected to take DC to a larger, global stage, including their DC Streaming Service. And she appears to have hit the ground running, with Batman's[...]
THQ Nordic
THQ Nordic announced that it's picked up developers Coffee Stain Studios and Bugbear Entertainment It now has 35 unannounced games in active development. THQ Nordic has made it clear it's not messing around in the last few months The revived publisher garnered strength with major developer and IP acquisitions of late While most of its games[...]
Red Dead Redemption 2 had the Best Week 2 this Year at UK Retail
It has already become the second highest grossing entertainment property of all time, however, it doesn't look like the title is in any danger of slowing down anytime soon. We have a nice market slice to prove that too Red Dead Redemption 2 has, perhaps unsurprisingly, topped the UK retail sales chart in its second week[...]