Both Diamond Comic Distributors, the monopoly distributor of most comic books to the direct market of comic book stores, and ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group, are both holding three-day summits in the next couple of months. Some retailers may go to both, many will go to one, most will go to none. But can any […]
With its 12th Annual Meeting to Portland, Oregon on February 22nd to the 24th, the day after Image Expo If you are going, do let us know...Portland is now the home of Dark Horse Comics, Oni Press, Image Comics, CBLDF and IDW's satellite office as well as many comic professionals.
The ComicsPRO Annual Meeting brings together[...]
With over forty years as a comic book seller, President & CEO of Diamond Comic Distributors, Steve Geppi will draw upon four decades of personal experience to provide keynote remarks during Diamond's 2018 Retailer Summit, held in Chicago April 4th to the 6th at the McCormick Convention Center, just before the C2E2 comic convention from […]
"ComicsPRO and its member retailers are all filled with gratitude for the important work of these creatives and business professionals.”ComicsPRO members will vote on the nominees with the results announced at the 2018 ComicsPRO Comic Industry Conference in Portland OR February 22-24.At the annual meeting, the ComicsPRO Board Of Directors will also posthumously present the first ever ComicsPRO Unsung[...]
All good things must naturally come to an end (which has still in no way, shape, or form ever made me feel good about the process), and that's where IFC finds itself with their Portland-set hipster satire series Portlandia.With their eighth and final season only a few months away, co-creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will[...]
The secretive cabal of comic book retailers known as ComicsPRO has announced plans to hold its annual ritualistic gathering in Portland, Oregon in both 2018 and 2020 The shadowy organization, which counts amongst its membership some of the most powerful men and women in comics retail, invites all comic book retailers with storefront locations to[...]
As Bleeding Cool told you earlier in the week, the comic book retailer advocacy group ComicsPRO has been holding a Marvel conference call with editors and creators today, ostensibly to look at how the Generations one-shot comics currently on final orders will segue from Secret Empire to Marvel Legacy. But it's also proved an opportunity […]
The response to last week's Marvel Legacy announcements has not been an overly positive one. Bleeding Cool has argued that much of this was down to the marketing of the announcements, the idea of showing all the monthly October titles, including a few new titles, as reflecting comic books of the past was a good one. […]
Bleeding Cool ran a report from ComicsPRO, sourced from several retailers, who talked about an address from Marvel SVP David Gabriel regarding poor industry response of late and where the blame lay – and of negative retailer response in the room. We also sourced a response from retailer Dennis Barger who supported Gabriel's statements. Here […]
At ComicsPRO, F1rst Comics/Devil's Due teased a new fantasy comic book series for 2017 by Bill Willingham, his first since the end of Fables – but without any more details forthcoming. In comments, replying to Bleeding Cool posters who pointed out a number of similar projects that hadn't been published, Bill Willingham wrote, I'll be […]
Courtesy of Diamond Daily,the daily retailer newsletter. there are a few ComicsPRO announcements which didn't make it to Bleeding Cool's 52 Story List… but we're very happy to add them here! DC plans to celebrate Jack "King" Kirby's 100th birthday in 2017 with a series of specials, May will bring the debut of MediSIN, from […]
Well, that was a busy few days in Memphis, Tennessee. Here are 52 stories from ComicsPRO – mostly covered by Bleeding Cool but there's more besides. And bound to be more to come out later in the week… Full house at the Diamond Comics Q&A at @comicspro annual meeting. pic.twitter.com/HxCAnQGKAK — Matthew Price (@nerdage) February […]
We ran the text of the ComicsPRO keynote speech from Ross Richie, publisher and founder of BOOM! Studios earlier today. Well, because we've all been good little boys and girls, here's the video, filmed from ComicsPRO today.
We mentioned the other week that Titan Comics were publishing the European adaptation of the Millenium Trilogy starting with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. And today, Titan Comics told ComicsPRO that's exactly what they were doing. And making it part of their Hard Case Comics line, alongside new titles Quarry and Normandy Gold. This […]
Titan Comics and Games Workshop have announced a new comic book series, Blood Bowl: More Guts, More Glory, at ComicsPRO, based on the runaway board game and videogame. Blood Bowl is set in an alternate version of the Warhammer universe – one where brutal chaos and inter-species rivalries are settled on the football pitch, rather than on […]
At ComicsPRO in Memphis, Tennesse, they announced the next round of theu=ir SQUARE ONE $1 first issues and $10 TPBsSQUARE ONE $1 first issues in stores June 7 Another Castle #1 Writer: Andrew Wheeler Artist/Colorist/Cover Artist: Paulina Ganucheau Synopsis: Get the first issue of this high-stakes all-ages fantasy series for $1!Princess Misty of Beldora longs for a more […]
Titan Comics announced at ComicsPRO today they will be publishing Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's graphic novel, The Death Of Stalin in English, which was filmed last year by The Thick Of It's Armando Iannucci to be released in cinemas later this year. The movie stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin and Jeffrey Tambor. So […]
In an interview with Oregon radio station OPB, Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson confirmed the stories that Image Comics were moving from Berkeley to Portland, taking offices in Montgomery Park.He told the station that he initially talked to Image Comics partner and founder Erik Larsen about the possibility of moving to Seattle.
We moved to Berkeley[...]
Hannah Means-Shannon was editor-in-chief for Bleeding Cool for two years before taking an editorial job at Dark Horse Comics in Portland, and moving from New Jersey.
She now is not only leaving Dark Horse - but Portland as well.
She writes on Tumblr,A few people, mainly professionals in the industry, have been contacting me with nice messages[...]
Ian Melton attended Wizard World Portland Comic Con,Wizard World Portland has grown in size from its first two years in the Rose City and this year was an impressive and fun convention. It was the second convention to show Wizard World’s shift into video gaming as part of their convention setup, with an impressive array[...]
