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Bleeding Cool readers may be familiar with Jesse James Criscione and Jen King's Comic Book Shopping Network, which promotes comic book stores selling their wares through live streaming videos In 2021, that service will transform courtesy of investment from comic book publisher Dynamite Entertainment's owner Nick Barrucci into the Comic Book Shopping Experience. Jen King, courtesy[...]

So how are comic book stores in the state reacting to these new measures? Jesse James Criscione of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, has decided not to open up early He writes We will continue to do ONLINE and CBSN Pickups only We will see on the 15th where the state of Arizona is with Covid-19[...]

Yesterday, as well as the words of Jesse James, we caught up with Yen Press going ahead as normally as they can Welcome all, to the daily Lying In The Gutters a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The official cover[...]

Jesse James Criscione is the owner of Jesse James Comics of Glendale, Arizona As a store that dropped Diamond Comics as a distributor at the beginning of last year, he started the Comic Book Shopping Network As a result of all this, he has a rather unique take on the current changes in comic book[...]

Jesse James Criscione of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, a comic book that famously dropped Diamond last year, posted the following, shared with Bleeding Cool, I started working in a comic book store on Jan 25th 1982 in Las Vegas Nevada That same month (well thereabouts) a company started, Diamond Comic Distributors The Owner was[...]

Jesse James Criscione of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, has been talking about the current state of the comics industry He writes, Today was the day of days for our Industry I was very fortunate to talk to 32 stores today across the nation Of those, 23 LCS owners I had never met The common[...]

From Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona… all copies of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1. He tells me that the pre-orders from customers have paid for the entire order… and from now on it's pure profit. Good luck Jesse And if your store runs out, odds are these folk will still have copies on hand…   [...]

Well, that happened last year. And now the Guinness World Records folks signed off on it. Shawn Demumbrum , who organised the record break with Jesse James of Jesse James Comics  told me, A few days after Mark Millar set the records at Kapow! Comic Convention in London in April 2011, I had stopped Jesse James Comics for one[...]

So, there has been bad karma sent in the direction of Marvel Experience of Scottsdale, Arizona of late, with terrible reviews, local TV news getting involved in the slating, bad reviews of commentary being deleted from Facebook by the promoters and the occasional positive review getting drowned out in the hating. Well, in for a penny…[...]

Jesse James, familiar to a number of Bleeding Cool writers I'm sure, and retailer of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, is opening a new store in Las Vegas. In a deal with another Las Vegas store, Desert Wind, Jesse James Celestial Comics will be a 2000 sq foot based in the Neonopolis Center at the[...]

Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Arizona writes, The Convention season officially kicked off two weeks ago Image Expo and Albuquerque Comic Con started the season off very strong with lots of hype backed up with lots of Variants and Cos-players Comic book conventions used to be niche events with limited appeal to the masses. [...]

Do let us know if you'd be interested in drinking the Bleeding Cool Aid… When Image Expo Got Jesse Jamesed Phoenix retailer Jesse James wrote from the Image Expo for Bleeding Cool, My Morning started at 8 a.with a simple flight to San Fran to hit the Image Expo 2014 for the 3rd straight year[...]

Sofia Annunziata, Madeline E Ricchiuto, Roman Gebuza, Jesse James, Patrick Willems, Hannah Means Shannon Richard Johnston, Mike Hogan, Joe Davies, Roman Gebuza, Daniel Celko, Alejandra Bodden, Peter Sailer, Amanda Gurall, Marq Romero, Jackie, Nikolai Fomich, Michael Mcdermott, Jeremy Konrad, Elizabeth Heyman and Jackie Sunderland are some of the people who went to New York Comic Con[...]

Jesse James writes; Jimmy Jay did something I totally disagreed with, he set up his Amazing Vegas con as far from the famous Vegas strip as possible Not going for all the glitz and mass humanity swarming the famous hub of the city, he chose the Southpointe a local casino and hotel about three miles from[...]

Jesse James wrote from Amazing Arizona Comic Con; Rain and no Stan Lee but the show must go on! As Phoenix prepared for the Amazing Arizona Comic con this past month, retailers and fans were quite nervous AACC didn't really do that much advertising other then a few local stores and some social networking on Facebook and[...]

Jesse James went two comic conventions in the same city last week Morrisoncon and… Las Vegas Comic Con! I have spent much my life in Las Vegas The one thing you learn about the comic scene in this city is that comic conventions just don't work out As it happens, the mention of Vegas and a[...]

    Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; MorrisonCon wasn't for everyone In fact, 98% regular con fans might have walked away saying, 'what the heck was that?'  However, I thought it was the right recipe and look forward to a return to the Hard Rock next year for this amazing experience. This wasn't even a con, in[...]

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool We tried to stop him but he threatened us with a lawsuit. When I started collecting comics, choices were easy I walked into the Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Store and threw down my 60 cents for my new issue of Avengers It was that simple, I didn't have the[...]

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; I would like to start out by saying I waited a couple days to write this article I wanted it to let the Comikaze experience sink in I also wanted to talk to some of the vendors and creators I missed at the show In the end, it all came[...]

My all time favorites creators of all time really cross a lot of genres and decades. You will see me buying a lot of Kirby art pieces and comics. I hoard

I charged the floor at San Diego Con for the first time as a 12 year old boy in 1982.  I had a clear head and no idea what to do or who was who.  That was

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con He spoke to Nei Ruffino… Where are you from originally? Originally from Northern Cali In the land of the Jelly Belly, that's big clue as to what town :) You pretty much came in from a different type of artwork in the Tattoo world[...]

Didn't work as well as he hoped. Follow him on @peterssvensson Jesse James is the owner of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, AZ He celebrates his 30th year reading and collecting comics  A third of his time he is hanging with his 17,000 + fans on Facebook, another third he his hanging with fans across the nation at conventions,[...]

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool If we tried to stop him, we would be struck down by a pantheon of deities. Every once in awhile you meet a creator that just has a lot of passion for their project  Wayne Gardiner has just that passion for his Knightingail series  I first meet him early last year and[...]

Gail Simone getting Jesse Jamesed at Denver Comic Con. When you arrive in Denver you are almost immediately swarmed with that new sensation Denver Broncos QB #18 Peyton Manning  Everywhere you turn you see his number or his face  In Fact, that's all my driver would talk about  However, hold the press there's a new kid in town and its number[...]

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Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool Despite the restraining order. There's Cosplay and there is Cosplayers Jessica Nigri Tops the charts as not only one of the best Cossies in the state of Arizona but quite possibly one of the best on the planet Here Facebook tops 114,000+ fans and she is one of the most[...]

Uber-fanboy Jesse James hit ECCC in Seattle this weekend for Bleeding Cool This is what he brought back with him; One day my company offered me a new position in Seattle I lived in Florida at the time The Pay was awesome and the new perks I just couldn't resist However, he said "can you look[...]

We'll just have to wait and see. Jesse James also went to WonderCon for Bleeding Cool This is what he came back with As you can tell, he doesn't need to eat or drink, he just keeps going on pure keenness alone. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3DlwzdrC8c[/youtube] I have always said that a Convention starts with the Anticipation before you get there[...]