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As the impact and spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to evolve, Diamond Comic Distributors has made the decision to cancel their 2020 Retailer Summit scheduled to take place from April 14th to 16th, originally planned to be held in conjunction with MegaCon in Orlando Diamond states that We do this out of an abundance of[...]

We knew that 2000 AD publisher Rebellion had bought the rights to the classic Trigan Empire comic book by Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence, along with

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[...]

The U.S. 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.

At the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 this week, the spectre of GameStop muscling its way into the comics business reared its ugly head once more during a presentation from Titan Comics' Chris Thompson. After revealing that Titan's Bloodborne comic series by woodsman Ales Kot had been upgraded from mini-series to ongoing, Thompson assuaged the fears of retailers,[...]

Following reports yesterday that website League of Comic Geeks would launch a competing pull list service for retailers, with both a free and $30/month tier, Diamond announced today at the Retailer Summit ahead of C2E2 that their own pull list service, Pullbox, will be free for all retailers for more than a year In addition,[...]

The existence of the group was quietly revealed back in April in Brian Hibbs' Tilting at Windmills column: This has led to Marvel taking several pretty unprecedented-for-them steps, the chief of which might be in holding a retailer summit in New York as well as building a "secret" Facebook group to discuss Marvel marketing with retailers[...]

During the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 today, Diamond showed off a chart comparing sales in the first quarter of 2017 to the previous year's numbers Comics Beat reporter and #TeamTerror activist Heidi MacDonald captured a photo of the chart and posted it to Twitter: Total comics sales down -3.5% for Q1 – periodicals slightly up, but GNs down[...]

News was flying hot and heavy out of the Diamond Retailer Summit yesterday DC Comics announced a new line of comics called Dark Matter that seemed to capitalize on Marvel's recent PR gaffe about artists, but they failed to pay attention to Marvel's even bigger recent gaffe about readers not wanting diversity any more (though[...]

Cover by Nick Bradshaw Marvel is currently holding court at the Diamond Retailer Summit ahead of C2E2, where Bleeding Cool has eyes, ears, and noses on the ground, sniffing out stories (and occasionally butts) and posting them here for your reading pleasure At their presentation, Marvel is likely announcing the return of Christopher Priest to Marvel[...]

Diamond's retailer summit is happening ahead of C2E2 today, and Bleeding Cool Rumormonger-in-Chief Rich Johnston has been reporting on the event (if you walk past the suspiciously ginger potted plant in the back of the room and it says "pip pip" to you, tell Rich we said hello) For those of you who don't possess the mastery[...]

You may have missed it because there were so many controversial things said by Marvel executives over the weekend, but at the Marvel retailer summit, Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso had something to say about the ability of artists to sell comic books (from a report of the summit by ICv2): There are fewer artists that impact sales than[...]

Gabriel's troubles began when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a retailer summit that he and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso treated like a candid closed door meeting Lots of things were said at this summit that have made for salacious headlines, with some claiming that quotes from the summit are taken out of context. https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848093206717751296 Although… https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/848252457368961024 So take that,[...]

Years from now, people will speak in hushed tones about the Great Marvel Retailer Summit Debacle of 2017, and the series of outrageous headlines that permeated the internet when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a meeting between Marvel and retailers and report the contents of said meetings to the public The summit has become a wellspring of[...]

According to a statement by Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel at a recent retailer summit as reported by ICv2, the best selling trade, continuously, of the last two or three years is none other than Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic some artist who Axel Alonso doesn't[...]

Years from now, people will speak in hushed tones about the Great Marvel Retailer Summit Debacle of 2017, and the series of outrageous headlines that permeated the internet when Marvel allowed website ICv2 to attend a meeting between Marvel and retailers and report the contents of said meetings to the public The summit has become a wellspring of[...]

But to do when event fatigue sets in, and diminishing returns cause even super-mega-crossover event books to suffer from the same attrition as regular non-event comics? That's the problem Marvel has been facing lately, as detailed as part of the infamous Marvel retailer summit debacle that has been a wellspring of salacious news stories this weekend, after Marvel allowed[...]

It's organic—"it's in the air," he says. It all sounds very nice, but, for the past few years, this reporter has warned readers that Marvel's commitment to diversity was a hollow one, and that the company is more concerned with receiving praise from mainstream media outlets for minimal efforts than they are with actually building a lasting long[...]

IcV2 has a massive two-article report on the first day of the Marvel retailer summit that took place at Marvel's offices this week In addition, they've interview Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel in a third article You can check them out here, here, and here The reports are chock full of extremely[...]

IcV2 has a massive two-article report on the first day of the Marvel retailer summit that took place at Marvel's offices this week In addition, they've interview Marvel Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel in a third article You can check them out here, here, and here The reports are chock full of extremely[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit we had the results of their Best Practice Awards, for retailers for a number of categories And the winners were from all across the country. BEST TWITTER PRESENCE Challengers Comics + Conversation BEST TV AD Jetpack Comics – Rochester, New Hampshire BEST NEW COMICS SECTION Dragon's Lair –Austin, TX BEST CONVENTION BOOTH Coliseum of Comics – Orlando, FL BEST STAFF[...]

As seen at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas - The Wicked And The Divine #1 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, coming from Image Comics. Just a

That was a line from a publisher in a Las Vegas bar last night, reading Bleeding Cool on his phone. Bleeding Cool has been running a fair few articles over the last few days, sourced from the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, courtesy of a number of friendly comic book retailers. In case you missed them,[...]

  Also seen at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, a bevy of Scribblenauts toys, all looking rather fantastic I expect that Bleeding Cool EIC Hannah Means-Shannon will be buying all of them ALL OF THEM.   Also seen at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, a bevy of Scribblenauts toys, all looking rather[...]