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Fans can visit the Diamond Comics booth (Booth #2401) to pick up a flier indicating which retailers on-site will be selling the special comic.Will Eisner's The Spirit #1 Award Ceremony Exclusive: Featuring a cover by artist Francesco Francavilla exclusively created as a giveaway for 2015 award ceremonies, this variant edition (Cover G) will be available for free[...]

Below are the nominees for the Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Summer 2015, to be awarded during San Diego Comi Con Retailers have until Sunday to vote on their colleagues in a variety of catagories. This time round, the categories were Best Apparel Section, Best Statue/Model Display, Best e-newsletter, and Best Collecting Supplies Display. Retailers who vote are[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

DC Comics/Vertigo take the front cover of next week's Diamond Previews catalogue, for the final issue of Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman, JH Williams III and Dave Stewart which will lead directly into the original Sandman #1 And they'll probably be able to get the hardcover out for this Christmas – even DC they[...]

Their retail share which had risen from 23.01% to 30.91% has now fallen back under the psychologically important mark of 30% to a meagre 25.43%. And their unit marketshare, which had risen from 26.13% to 33.9%, has crashed back to 26.04%. Image's dollar marketshare has fallen back in the light of this 8.89% down from 10.23%, and a[...]

Nicola Scott, Jason Aaron, Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Nick Dragotta have been added to the attendees of Image Expo next month, announcing new projects

Diamond recently showed off their stats to retailers for Free Comic Book Day which took place at the beginning of the month And all the numbers were up $4 million in free publicity (up 35%), 1.4 million in attendance, 5.6 million comics given away (up 20%) in 2,340 different locations during Free Comic Book Day. But what[...]

It's something I hear a lot when talking to retailers about the Diamond Retail Best Practice Awards That their store was better than the nominees and winners So I usually ask if they had entered, to be told… no. You've got to be in it to win it. And the summer categories for comic book stores are[...]

In March, Marvel had a fifteen point lead in terms of marketshare over DC Comics. In April, the lead is still there but it's much,much smaller. Marvel’s

Retailers have been advised that if they received copies of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 3 #3 this week, to not put them on sale. The issue has

It might not have been so quiet if Diamond had remembered to list Fanfare books in February It's great when an unreliable group of people are pretty much responsible for the success or failure of small businesses I'm betting someone, somewhere, in their hierachy gets massively priapic a lot of times… …           [...]

Not only is this Saturday Free Comic Book Day, but it's also the start to the 96th annual Children's Book Week, spanning from May 4th to the 10th this year. To help mark the special occasion, they're partnering with Diamond and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund this year to make comic books the focus[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors gave an assembled throng of comic book retailers  bunch of encouraging statistics at their C2E2 breakfast meeting yesterday morning. You can see all the publisher reports we ran here, but here's some of the resulting statistics. Sales for the first quarter of 2015 are up 8.28% over those in the same period last year, with[...]

Peter G and others have been giving us reports from the C2E2 Diamond Retailer Breakfast, where publishers and distributors feed the retailers and give them swag, in exchange for presenting their goods, and answering concerns… but we start with Diamond statistics for 2014 and the year so far… Leading things off for C2E2 was the Diamond[...]

Occasionally the Diamond Previews monthly catalogue becomes a genuine collectible item, such as this catalogue with the first listing of The Walking Dead or this Kingdom Come covered edition. Well, today's has this listing. In the top left corner, that is likely the only official printing of that Joker variant cover, ever. What's it worth to you?   .   [...]

The new Boom! series Strange Fruit by JG Jones and Mark Waid takes the front of next week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors… while Bryan Hitch's Justice League Of America takes the back. The Customer Order Form booklet also features a Boom! book, The Fiction by Curt Pires and David Rubin. While Marvel's Previews order form?[...]

If you recall, we ran a piece on Loot Crate's March offerings, speculating that there may be an exclusive copy of the IDW comic book Orphan Black #1 in there, and wondering what the effect on the market might be as a result. Well, I think we can take this as evidence that there is one. We[...]

The National Weather Service is forecasting 6 to 8 inches of snow along Interstate 95 and 8 to 10 inches north and west of that. With a winter storm warning is in effect from 10 pm Wednesday through 7 pm Thursday State Highway Administration and other transportation officials are again urging drivers to stay off the roads[...]

But you can bet your bottom dollar they'll send in nominations. Diamond Comic Distributors are running their regular Best Practice Awards, singling out comic book stores for added praise. And the Spring 2015 categories are: Best Retail Relocation / Expansion Best HCF Event Most Creative Store Sale Best Kids Section HCF, that's Hallowe'en Comic Fest. Folks, you've got to be in it to[...]

A major figure in getting comic books into libraries over a number of decades, she has made the Bleeding Cool Power List on the back of it. But she doesn't feel very powerful now. It's common for retailers to complain about Diamond Comic Distributors, who have a monopoly (though it's a word senior Diamond staff dispute with me[...]

Diamond is reporting that orders so far top 5.6 million free comic books, an increase on 2014's 4.65 million orders in total, a 21% increase – with only an 8% increase in participating stores (2340 of them). It seems as though this year's Free Comic Book Day will be the biggest yet by some margin… Read previous FCBD coverage[...]

  Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' new monthly comic book Providence takes the front of the Previews order form for next month, for comics shipping in

We know that Star Wars #1 sold over a million from Marvel Comics. Which means that Batman sold around 110,000... Amazing Spider-Man #3 and #4 also sold

And now just to the front of Previews, it gave IDW a better deal distributing their comics through Diamond Comic Distributors and changed the relatinship ot only between IDW and Diamond but between IDW and the rest of the comics industry The first addition to the Premier club since the Distributor Wars saw DC, Image,[...]

The front cover of the February Previews goes sideways for DC's Convergence event, but the back goes the right way up to launch Dark Horse's Rebels from

Confirmed to be working with Marvel are Hasbro, Diamond Select, Mighty Fine, Mad Engine, Funko and Hot Wheels as well as Marvel's game division. For more on what's being announced from Marvel today, click here. Besides the Secret Wars books, Marvel is working with a series of companies to produce products based on the new universe they[...]

The second issue seems to be, however, the issue that Diamond forgot to put Previews As you do So instead, they have included it in last week's Previews Plus, which usually contains a mix of emergency second prints, and toys, statues and the like – and is read by fewer retailers And even fewer readers. So,[...]

Well it was an honour to be nominated… as voted on by retailers in the comic book direct market, the Diamond Gem Awards, in full, with nominations 2014 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Over 4% – Image Comics Also nominated: Dark Horse Comics DC Comics IDW Publishing Marvel Comics 2014 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Under 4% – BOOM! Studios Also[...]

ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer trade organisation are having their annual drink up meeting in Portland, Oregon, next year from February 19th to the

Diamond Comic Distributors have released the nominations for their Gem Awards for 2014, which retailers have the chance to vote on. And for the first time Bleeding Cool Magazine has been nominated for Magazine Of The Year The magazine is edited by our online EIC Hannah Means-Shannon, contributed to by myself and staff writer Dan Wickline,[...]