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Revealed at ComicsPRO, DC Comics laid out the schedule for some of the DC Zoom and DC Kids titles they revealed earlier in the month at the American Libraries Association event. And while some of the months were mentioned, we didn't get the days and dates. And now we have them.

Lion Forge will publish Gene Ha's Mae in a new series, as well as publishing the first volume, according to a press release sent out by the company. The news was announced at ComicsPRO today prior to the press release.

Original article up top, follow-up PR below. With DC Comics leaving the front section of Previews, alongside Marvel, that section for Diamond's Premier publishers was looking a little bare, with just Dark Horse, Image Comics and IDW. Well, finally, after over a decade of trying and pointing out how their marketshare was sometimes higher than Dark Horse, the[...]

But, at ComicsPRO this week, Diamond launched a brand new system for the direct market with the big boys pulling the levers. Diamond Comic Distributors announced the upcoming release of Pullbox, a cloud-based software application that will allow comic shop customers a better way to preorder titles and products from their local comic book specialty shop. Described as[...]

Comic book writer Donny Cates wasn't at ComicsPRO this week, the meeting of comic book retailers, professionals, distributors and publishers. But he sent

When Marvel Comics went exclusive with Diamond Comic Distributors a couple of decades ago, after the fall of their own bought-in distributor Heroes World, they clashed against the already-established Diamond deal with DC Comics, where DC got the lion share of the front and back pages of the Previews catalogue every month So they started their[...]

Bleeding Cool first reported the rumour that award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates would be the new Marvel writer on Captain America back in June last

We must applaud eBay user spurio1234the, a comic book retailer who has listed his ComicsPRO exclusive variant cover swag directly from the show while sitting at one of the presentation tables.

Spinning out of the ComicsPRO presentations in Portland comes the sly bit of news that Amazing Spider-Man #794 is going to a third printing.

It's ranked in Diamond's Top 100 and it's ranked higher than titles like Incredible Hulk, Punisher, Champions, Black Panther, Cable, Ms Marvel, Runaways, and many others It's also been, from this reporter's subjective opinion, a quality book for its entire run. Even so, Tom Taylor has bigger fish to fry in the third core X-Book, X-Men:[...]

Gossip starts to spill out of ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group having their annual summit in Portland, right now. I'm doing my best to keep my ears

Just looking at the Marvel May 2018 solicitations that Bleeding Cool broke out earlier today reveals these listings for the Incredible Hulk, the series

There will be no ongoing issue of The Mighty Thor in May 2018 following from April's finale, Mighty Thor #706 by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman. AT THE

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.

Over that period, Image has received Diamond's Gem Award for Best Publisher three years in a row from 2014 to 2016 Stephenson individually has been honored with ComicsPRO's Industry Appreciation Award and was named The Beat's Industry Person of the Year in 2014, as well as being ranked in the Top 10 on Bleeding Cool's[...]

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool noticed that Barnes and Noble were no longer selling DC Comics on the newsstand. Turns out they had been gone for a few months. But it seems that Diamond Comic Distributors is at least preserving the spirit. By commissioning and making available these US-made pocket comic spinner racks. It'll cost you $299 if you want one[...]

Voodoo Doughnut will be making specially designed Shadowman doughnuts for retailers attending the ComicsPRO 2018 Annual Membership Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

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[...]

No way did I think a collection could make it past $50 bucks. Diamond will give more help to an established store looking to open up another location than to a brand-new store I personally think that is foolish New blood and new people are needed if the comic market is to truly grow. We were new once. I am[...]

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[...]

Pak started with a plea to Diamond and comic book publishers to build a damn website that lets people preorder comics online. All this frantic tweeting we do about preorders is critical but SO inefficient We live in a world in which 99 percent of people won't do anything unless it can happen in ONE CLICK[...]

Instead, Sitcomics hopes to shake up comics by changing the way they're sold in the Diamond monopoly system: instead of basing sales strategies on how many non-returnable comics retailers can be cajoled into buying, Sitcomics wants to sell comics to readers through a new system they're calling "Sell-Through Distribution." Sitcomics laid out the plan in a[...]

And we have The Will!!! Lying Cat looks better than I could have imagined . Saga Funko Pop Exclusives #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Two Lying Cat exclusives: a pink version at Barnes and Noble, and the Diamond Previews exclusive that[...]

The secretive cabal of comic book retailers known as ComicsPRO has announced plans to hold its annual ritualistic gathering in Portland, Oregon in both

It was screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. This is all coming out of Diamond's Retailer Breakfast ahead of New York Comic Con, happening today You can catch up with any other Retailer Breakfast announcements here.   The release of the movie Death of Stalin is giving the publishers of the graphic novel[...]

Order 25 or more and it's fully returnable. And of note for retailers, any comic store that orders 25 copies or more of the first issue will be able to return any unsold copies.Order 25 or more and it's fully returnable. But with such digital download codes, and the appeal of the new game, that may not be[...]

The character's adventures are now published by Titan Comics. This is all coming out of Diamond's Retailer Breakfast ahead of New York Comic Con, happening today You can catch up with any other Retailer Breakfast announcements here. Today, Titan Comics has announced that Tank Girl will be getting her very own day for the character's 30th Anniversary[...]

Following that tradition, Oni Press has dumped Diamond for bookstore distribution just days before New York Comic Con, and they've already hopped in bed with a new partner: Simon & Schuster. Oni flaunted the news by updating its relationship status on Facebook to "it's complicated," and also by sending out a press release: Simon & Schuster has[...]