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In October’s Diamond marketshare figures, the numbers were pretty much level pegging for September when it came to Marvel marketshare, with Marvel on 39.51% dollar share and 45.2% unit share. DC upped their numbers with a 31.67% dollar share and a 32.02% unit share, gaining from Image Comics which dropped to a 7.59% dollar share […]
Every month the comic book companies send out folded promotional posters to the comic book retailer / Diamond accounts. Each week different posters show up for the comic book stores to put up and promote upcoming titles. Most customers are familiar with the stores putting up new posters to show off upcoming titles, but which […]
Today is Local Comic Shop Day, when local comic shops (bricks and mortar only) get special deliveries of special items with variant covers, exclusive formats or early releases of certain items. See what is waiting for you in your local comic shop – if they are participating, that is. Here are a few doing even […]
Oni Press is publishing its penultimate Rick And Morty comic book in February 2020, with the finale of The Rickoning to run in March. But what will be there to replace it? Well, this may be a start… a comic book series based on the Sanrio Netflix show Aggretsuko, courtesy of Daniel Barnes and D.J. […]
Oni Press has announced plans to release omnibus editions of Chris Onstad’s bestselling comic (which started as a webcomic), Achewood, starting next June. The comic was not only a New York Times bestseller, but also inspired phone testicles, according to a 2010 Bleeding Cool report. A press release contains more details. Oni Press adds one […]
Oni Press has announced a new series launching next year from Rat Queens co-creator Kurtis Wiebe and newcomer artist Justin Osterling called Dryad. The book, which Wiebe says he’s been working on for five years, is a fantasy comic about a couple whose lives are changed by parenthood. Check out the press release below for […]
Bleeding Cool mentioned this may be coming a month ago. But it has now been confirmed that the upcoming Rick And Morty #56 will begin a final storyline , The Rickoning, that will bring the ongoing series, published at Oni Press, to an end, after five years. The series has been Oni Press’ best-selling comic […]
One of the great thing about the explosion of comic books on the big screen and on television has been being able to see comics that are not about superheroes being given a chance to have their stories jump out of the comic books and appear elsewhere. Stumptown falls firmly into that category. Based on the Oni […]
September brings a new Rick & Morty one-shot from Oni Press, revealing the origin of Rick’s old rock group Flesh Curtains. Do you really want to know? If so, you only have a few months to wait for the tale by Lilah Sturges and CJ Cannon. But Rick & Morty fans have a lot of […]
This year, Halloween ComicFest (HCF) features a whole new selection of 28 comic book titles for the industry’s most anticipated fall event taking place Saturday, October 26, 2019 at participating comic shops worldwide. Of the 28 titles available, 19 are Full Size and 9 are Mini Comics for fans to pick up and enjoy. All […]
Here’s the big list, the top 500 most-ordered comics and graphic novels through Diamond Comic Distributors in North American comic book stores in May 2019. We already did a little examination with the Top 10 and Top 100 but this doubles down. DCeased #1 sold over twice as many copies as Doomsday Clock #10, which […]
We’re totally doing this every month now. A Marketshare-Per-Capita chart. The usual comics industry marketshare shows how much share of the overall market a comics publisher has. This divides it by the number of titles they publish in that month. We’ve already looked at publisher marketshare in the North American direct market of comic book shops […]
One of the biggest crossover events in comic books last year was seeing Rick and Morty take on the world of Dungeons & Dragons in a four-issue arc. Penned by Jim Zub and Patrick Rothfuss with art by Troy Little and colors by Leonardo Ito, it was the pop-culture peanut butter and chocolate combo you […]
Today during D&D Live 2019, IDW Publishing and Oni Press unveiled the Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape comic series. Previously revealed a month ago through a tip-off, the next series will be written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern, with art by Troy Little as they continue the adventure from the […]