He appreciates that the comic book retailers' support for The Walking Dead gave him the power to negotiate what he wanted from the television series: "I appreciate the retailers who helped build Walking Dead so when the TV show came I was able to bargain a seat at the table."● Which doesn't mean that retailers were[...]
Retailers attending tomorrow's ComicsPRO summit in Portland will be able to take home a lot of swag This includes a couple of exclusive variant covers from Boom! Studios, one each per retailer.
The first is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation #1, which is already one of Boom!’s biggest launches in years, and may still be under-ordered based on[...]
"We hope this move emphasizes the stability we will continue to bring to our company and more importantly, with Eric’s addition to Image’s board of directors, it will assure retailers and creators alike that the key person you have all grown accustomed to working with is going to be there for you for many years[...]
Voodoo Doughnut will be making specially designed Shadowman doughnuts for retailers attending the ComicsPRO 2018 Annual Membership Meeting in Portland, Oregon.Each of two designs adorned with a hand-piped rendition of the character's mask — chocolate on a vanilla frosted doughnut filled with chocolate Bavarian cream, or vanilla on a chocolate frosted doughnut filled with raspberry[...]
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 of[...]
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 of[...]
Since then, Diamond has become the largest distributor of English-language comic books, servicing thousands of retailers worldwide Since Diamond’s opening, Geppi has developed and added numerous additional pop-culture companies under the Diamond umbrella, including
Alliance Game Distributors, Baltimore Magazine, Diamond International Galleries, Diamond Select Toys, E Gerber; Gemstone Publishing, Geppi’s
Entertainment Museum, and Hake’s Americana & Collectibles.Now[...]
ComicsPRO, the trade association for comics speciality retailers, proudly announces the nominees for its annual Comic Industry Awards The awards honour those people who are or have been the best at what they do, making a significant difference in the business of the comic-book speciality market.There are two categories for the ComicsPRO Awards, the Industry Appreciation Award[...]
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[...]
At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, retailers were able to see the nominated candidates for the Summer's Best Practice Awards, a retailer award set up by Diamond Comic Distributors to reward and acknowledge comic stores individual efforts They made theuir judgment, cast their votes, the numbers counted and the winners[...]
But it's also proved an opportunity for some retailers to react to Marvel over what's been going on of late.Word coming out is muted and restricted But Bleeding Cool has managed to piece a few things together from various sources Now we knew that Marvel Legacy is the new promotion and not-a-relaunch from Marvel Comics[...]
I understand that members of the ComicsPro comic book retailer advocacy group have a group call scheduled with Marvel head honchos editorial, writers and artists this Friday.UPDATE: It was arranged two weeks ago to be about the flow between Secret Empire, Generations and Marvel Legacy #1.Though some retailers I have heard from may have other[...]
From the controversies with artist Berliac to Howard Chaykin and Image Comics on The Divided States of Hysteria, what more could there be in the first week?Popping outside of comics for a moment, clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire for a Pride Month tweet, which they have since deleted, that read "the pride community is[...]
As you know by now, we have been heavily dissecting, discussing, theorising and pointing at the recent candid discussions at the Marvel Retailer Summit between Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel, and a number of retailers who attended the event, as covered in an extensive report from ICv2.This[...]
Yes, it's all of that.
Gabriel has since walked back on these comments somewhat, after a massive backlash.
Discussed candidly by some of the retailers at the summit, we heard that some were not happy with the false abandonment of the core Marvel heroes and, contrary to what some said about characters “not working,” the sticking factor[...]
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 is[...]
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 […]
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 Action Lab, in which a criminal mastermind recruits a team of luckless physicians to provide medical aid for supervillains.In June, Action Lab’s all-ages line expands[...]
And bound to be more to come out later in the week...https://twitter.com/nerdage/status/832324709912104962
State Of The IndustryMore Comics And Graphic Novels Sold In Comic Stores In 2016 Than In 2015, ComicsPRO Attendees Told By Diamond
ComicsPRO Meeting, The Industry Equivalent Of The Bilderberg Group, Begins Today
The Morning After The Night Before At ComicsPRO
On Boycotting[...]
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.
