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I feel it." But it also describes efforts with varying degrees of success by five other local comics stores, who report either flat or growing sales, to build their customer base, and talks about some modern point of sale systems being employed to help shops manage their non-returnable stock. "That's one of the hardest parts of[...]

Every month, Bleeding Cool runs Diamond monthly statistics for ordered comics for North American comic book stores You may even get a little analysis, if you're lucky But how much does it matter? Quite a bit, apparently. Diamond Comic Distributors to amended their records so that, in March 2017, the new X-O Manowar #1 is no[...]

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[...]

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

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

Saturday, October 28th is Hallowe'en ComicFest, the horror-themed Free Comic Book Day organised by Diamond Comics Distributors Oytensibly a kids event, certain titles have been getting more and more mature readers-orientated and 2017 has more Mature Readers and Teen+ titles than ever before… And plenty of comics for the kids as well There's a mix of[...]

This Wednesday will see the release of Batman #25. And, in Britain, Batman #24 - first and second prints, with complete Catwoman proposal, due to

Run by Diamond Comic Distributors, it sees publishers put out free comics, and selling bags of mini-comics intended for people to give out to trick-or-treaters at home. There's usually a lesser selection that for Free Comic Book Day, but a strong push for All Ages and younger reader-friendly material rather than anything more adult focused, even[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran some Diamond-sourced statistics demonstrating how Free Comic Book Day's numbers were down in 2017 compared to 2016 In terms of comics given away, people attending the event and number of stores even participating. But it's not the whole picture Diamond also conducted a survey amongst participators which, while self-selecting, the nature of[...]

In the course of two very unfortunate days where Alonso and Gabriel seemingly spoke candidly in the closed retailer meeting only to see their comments go viral after website ICv2 was allowed to document the entire thing, Marvel managed to blame readers not wanting any more diversity, creators going to Image, limited series being a "death knell" for[...]

"You like me! You really like me!" was the theme of beleaguered comic book writer Nick Spencer's Twitter feed Friday morning after Diamond's sales charts revealed Secret Empire #0 took the #1 spot for the month*, helping Marvel to a victory in dollar share, unit share, and percentage of top ten Yay! However, Secret Empire's win must come[...]

Diamond had a lot of their own stuff to show off at the Diamond Summit, held at Chicago these past few days Including their own Diamond Select toyline and statues… Here's a few examples on what they were promoting to the retailer crowd… you can see more of our Summit coverage here. [...]

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[...]

Here's a sideways look (literally) at the Diamond Summit in Chicago right now, in which retailers are addressing their issues to Diamond representatives. Including issues about stock knowledge issues, and from Robert Scott of Comikaze in San Diego, about how Diamond closes too early for West Coast stores But about four minutes forty into the video[...]

That was difficult for us because we had a lot of fresh, new, exciting ideas that we were trying to get out and nothing new really worked. Ignoring how reductive it is to say that this is clearly the fault of the diverse character (and not, for example, the quality of the work, writing AND art,[...]

Dark Days: The Forge#1, the prelude to DC's Batman summer crossover from Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Andy Kubert, Jim Lee, and John Romita, Jr takes the front cover spot of next week's Diamond Previews catalogue. While Brian Wood, Mack Chater, Lee Loughridge and Matthew Woodson's saga of a family of anti-government separatists continues in Dark Horse[...]

My latest Diamond order is pretty dang small for Marvel Yet I still keep trying to go over the order trying to guess does it need to be less? Has the Marvel bleed-out stopped? Marvel if you truly think my store's money was tied up by DC then you are wrong I have too many first issues of Foolkiller, Mockingbird[...]

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

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 Action Lab,[...]

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 16, 2017 State Of The Industry More Comics And Graphic Novels Sold In Comic Stores In 2016 Than In 2015, ComicsPRO Attendees Told By Diamond ComicsPRO Meeting, The Industry Equivalent Of[...]

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

We mentioned the other week that Titan Comics were publishing the European adaptation of the Millenium Trilogy starting with The Girl With The Dragon

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

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

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

Despite – or because – Free Comic Book Day restricted their free comic books to fifty titles last year, orders were up to 6 million in total for 2016. But at ComicsPRO, Diamond told retailers that this year – with 52 titles for Free Comic Book Day – orders had been placed for over 5.3 million copies, a similar[...]

I was given a dressing down by an actual comics journalist over my previous report over how Marvel games comics industry marketshare as reported by Diamond Comic Distributor's charts Not for uncovering and examining the information, but the way it was provided I was asked to do better Maybe include something visual. Okay I'll try[...]

The collapse of the pound sterling against the US dollar as a result of Great Britain's referendum result to leave the European Union, has today had its effect on the price of comic books. Diamond Comic Distributors has informed comic book stores that prices have increased as a result of changes in exchange rates, the first[...]

In one of his daily live videos, Dennis Barger of Wonderworld Comics made the case that Diamond Comic Distributors needs better boxes. He states that over recent years, as the value of new comics and other items have risen, and publishers are more likely to run out of copies available for replacement, that damages are having[...]

See all those pink slips everywhere? Today, Hastings has ordered their staff to take inventory of all Diamond and Funko stock The store is riddled with these pink labels. The Great pop Purge of 2016 is coming… So, yes, Hastings did get two weeks of comics,though seemingly a decreased amount And, yes, it included the retailer exclusive variant[...]