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Archie Comics Christmas Sale: 40% Off Your Entire Order For A Limited Time
Especially, if you like Archie Comics! The website is having a Christmas sale in which you can get 40% off your entire order. Besides the allure of 40% off, I found the idea of their Graphic Novel bundle packs to be pretty interesting You get to choose one 6 issue double digest subscription, 1 graphic novel[...]
The Hangman Is Unlike Anything Archie Comics Has Ever Published Before
  This is The Hangman, the new Dark Circle comic book from Archie Comics, written by Frank Tieri and drawn by Felix Ruiz.   It appears to be pretty much nothing like Archie have ever published before Even when compared to Afterlife With Archie or even Black Hood Take a look – before it's out tomorrow.   What would Mr Weatherbee[...]
Archie Comics Loses A Fifth Of Their Staff
Bleeding Cool has been informed that Archie Comics has laid off a significant number of their office staff, six out of their thirty employees I have been told that it's not from the executive level, but from production and warehouse And that this includes a production assistant, and a senior art director who has been with the company for[...]
Francesco Francavilla Draws Archie For Judge Dredd #1
Take him to the cubes, Dredd! Archie Comics, the acclaimed and bestselling comic book publisher that is home to some of the best-known pop culture creations in the world is marking their 75th anniversary in 2016 And to help ring in this monumental occasion, IDW Publishing is celebrating their publishing partner in the form of Archie tribute[...]
The Super Awesome Comic Review Show – DC Comics Bombshells, Beauty, Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, Howard the Duck!
Top 5 am here. Books Featured for August 12, 2015: Image Comics: Beauty #1 Dark Horse Comics: The Eltingville Club #2 Marvel Comics: Howard the Duck #5 DC Comics: DC Comics Bombshells #1 Archie Comics: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #4 Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuperAwesomeComicShow https://www.facebook.com/FoxiHasAPosse The Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic[...]
Archie #1 To Get 17 Retailer Exclusive Covers
Archie Comics is gearing up for their big summer relaunch of Archie #1 by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples and in doing so, they have set up to do seventeen exclusive retailer covers so far And the artist being tapped to produce these covers include Jae Lee, Terry Moore, Dave Dorman, Cameron Stewart and a[...]
Archie Comics Cancels Its Kickstarter
If retailers were being pushed out of the equation, Archie directly competing with them for customers, how much of this was down to cashflow problems, a new deal with Wal-Mart and Target and how was getting paid what. Rather than about the comics. Well, now Archie Comics have taken their ball home The Kickstarter, which had raised[...]
Behind The Counter: Archie Comics Cuts Us Out
By Jeremy Konrad Archie Comics has been around for 75 years, which is a huge accomplishment Last year, they took a massive risk with the launches of Afterlife with Archie and Sabrina horror-themed comics, and asked us as retailers to be there along for the ride with them And with them we were It was a[...]
Archie Comics Answer Its Kickstarter Critics
Yesterday, Archie Comics launched a Kickstarter appeal to fund their new Riverdale Reborn line. Citing cashflow problems with their new Target/Wal-Mart deal as the factor behind needing to use a Kickstarter to launch the new line. A couple of retailers took umbrage at this, and there were questions from other creators and retailers as to why Archie Comics[...]
Creators And Retailers Talk Archie Comics, Kickstarters And Money
Yesterday, Archie Comics launched a Kickstarter appeal to fund their new Riverdale Reborn line. Citing cashflow problems with their new Target/Wal-Mart deal as the factor behind needing to launch a Kickstarter to launch the new line. A couple of retailers took umbrage at this, but there were other creators and retailers who wanted to talk, including Mark[...]
Cover image for Archie Milestones Jumbo Digest #14: Best of the 1990s
This morning we were fast off the blocks, reporting the new line of Archie Comics titles for Riverdale Reborn to be funded by Kickstarter. Shortly afterwards, we received a response from Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater I understand that this will appear elsewhere but for  now, you can read it here. Take it away, Jon. We live in[...]
From Strip To Script – Sonic The Hedgehog
However, the first comic I read regularly, from the four-issue-mini-series-I-was-bought-in-a-Toys-R-Us onward, was Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog. (It's one of three comics I've ever had a subscription to, which seems like such an alien concept to me now.) Sonic's an odd duck (or hedgehog), in that the games basically had a plot of "run fast and pop robots[...]
How To Improve Black Hood #2 From Archie Comics
This scene from the upcoming Black Hood #2 from Archie Comics…. …could only be improved if it came rigt before this… Black Hood #2's Final Order Cut-Off date is Monday, folks. This scene from the upcoming Black Hood #2 from Archie Comics…. …could only be improved if it came rigt before this… Black Hood #2's Final Order Cut-Off date[...]
Sonic / Mega Man Crossover To Include More Sega And Capcom Franchises
Archie Comics is following up their 2013 event Worlds Collide that featured Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man with a new event called Worlds Unite that include more SEGA and CAPCOM franchises like Street Fighter and Monster Hunter. The new event will include characters from Sonic Boom, Mega Man X, it will also include SEGA franchises[...]
Every Use Of The F-Word In Archie Comics' Latest Title, Black Hood
I've just read the first issue of Black Hood, the new comic from Archie Comics' Dark Circle, reinventing their superhero comic books for a new audience The Final Order Cut Off is today. We previously mentioned that this would be the first Archie comic to, well, feature the F-word, but no one seemed to believe us[...]
Who Will Be The Next Premier Publisher At Diamond?
But Archie also has a strong presence here throughout he chart, alongside Oni and Viz. Based on this, and given its long standing, could Archie Comics be a Premier Publisher in 2015? TOP 100 SMALL PRESS COMICS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in Calendar Year 2014 QTY RANK OVERALL QTY RANK OVERALL DOLLAR RANK INDEX DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 267 91 50.36 LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #36 $4.99 ARC 2 437 141 42.77 LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #37 $4.99 ARC 3 443 285 42.57 SABRINA[...]
Kevin Keller Gets A Beard For 2015
Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first out gay character, saw his own series come to an end last year But it appears that he will be returning in 2015… with a beard. Really Kevin? You came out already, we know you're gay, it was in all the papers, you don't need to pretend any more Being seen[...]