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We said there would be more to come on Lumberjanes this weekend and we were right. Hot on the heels on yesterday's news of the sellout of the massive overprint of issue #1 and the release of issue #2, Boom! Studios is going to announce today at the Diamond Retailer Summit today that Lumberjanes, the sophomore[...]

Dynamite's final friday announcement at the Diamond Retailer Seminar was something that we heard about back during Comicon last summer Fox's Bob's Burgers is getting the comic book treatment by the very creators that make the television series, Bento Box Entertainment This series will also kick off in August. "If you like Bob's Burgers and you like comic[...]

We've got previews here for the big X-O Manowar #25 issue that preludes the Armor Hunters event and Unity #7 that concludes the Trapped By Webnet

The annual Diamond Retailer Seminar is this weekend and Dynamite is rolling out a half-dozen announcements and the next one here involves the King. We start with Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers Created by Jack Kirby, the characters are being re-imagined by Joe Casey and Nathan Fox The first issue will hit stores in August[...]

Being handed out by Valiant to retailers at the Valiant party tomorrow night in Las Vegas, part of the Diamond Retailer Summit, Armor Hunters shot glasses. If you want a shot at getting the glasses, better give them a shout And hope that they don't leave them somewhere inappropriate or try to use them as collateral[...]

But, from my own research, I think we can expect an announcement shortly that Stephen Mooney, of Half Past Danger and the CSI: Dying In The Gutters comic that killed me off, is to work on a new project for DC Comics. Announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit maybe? He's not alone Other folk more[...]

These are the official statistics for comic books as distributed in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors in the month of April 2014 So what have we learned? Marvel Comics dollar share continued its rise, but sharper this month with their dollar share rising from 34.31% to 39.27  and their unit share does the same from[...]

Why not catalogues? The next edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly catalogue, for comics shipping in July, will have a very female feel. Not so much the cover, though Dick Grayson does have quite the female following. But on the insight, Previews is taking the opportunity to highlight work by female creators, or featuring female leads or sometimes[...]

British comic book retailers have been told by Diamond UK that the Satellite Sam Tijuana Bible incentive will not be available within these shores. Image Comics had previously announced that a fictional "Tijuana bible", based on the small press pornographic publications that lampooned cartoon figures, sports stars and actors from the twenties to the sixties, would feature[...]

The winners of the Diamond Comic Distributors Spring 2014 Best Practice Awards are  to be announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit in May. But before then, here are the nominees, to be voted on by fellow retailers (who can win $250 worth of swag for doing so…) Is your comic shop amongst them? Should it be? BEST[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit at Las Vegas in May, attending retailers will be getting a goodie bag full of stuff, as well as getting a package send to their stores. Their haul will include Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir #1, Futures End #1 Exclusive Variant, Amazing Spider-Man #1 Ross 75th Anniversary Variant,[...]

Yesterday, Diamond Comics held a Retailer Day ahead of today's London Super Comic Con Which consisted of a room full of British comic book store owners with publishers and creators talking up their wares. Titan Comics were up first, with Titan's PR guy Rick Claydon. They were there to show off Scarlett Couture by Des Taylor, planned[...]

America has weather again, it seems. And so, because of a severe winter storm, Diamond Comic Distributor's Home Office in Hunt Valley, Maryland is closed today, though expected to reopen tomorrow. Also, direct ships from Diamond's Olive Branch have similarly been affected and will not ship today. So if your retailer is on the phone looking rather frazzled,[...]

So the only way you can tell what's what is when a company goes under. Such as Diamond Digital, the digital comic distribution line from Diamond Comic Distributors which exclusively distributed digital comics through comic book stores, as a series of codes which could be sold over the counter. Well, Hollywood Reporter has stated that participating retailers[...]

The Diamond Best Practice Awards: Spring 2014 will be presented from the comic book distributor to a number of retailers at this year's Diamond Retailer Summit, held May 17-19th in Las Vegas The categories are as follows. Best New Comics Section Best Twitter Presence Best Staff Motivational Program Best TV Ad Best Convention Booth Do you have a comic book retailer[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced that, due to a severe winter storm, its home office in Maryland is closed today. So if you pop into your local comic store and your retailer is a little stressed, be patient, whisper kind words and pat them gently on the shoulder We're all in this together. They should be open[...]

Batman #27 beat Detective Comics #27 in January's sales, taking the top two spots as distributed in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. Marvel Comics have dropped their dollar share from 35.42% to 34.09% but increased their unit share from 36.56% to 37.39% Basically Marvel selling slightly less but charging slightly more But in both cases,[...]

Until now. British retailers have been informed that, as of now, they will not received any of their orders for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Animated), Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10 or Dexters Laboratory from IDW, and none of Regular Show from Boom. This doesn't mean the chops can't sell them, just that Diamond is no longer[...]

Here are the full results of the Diamond Comic Distributors 2013 Diamond Gem Awards (find the full list of nominees here) as voted on by comic book retailers With Image beating back the traditional winners of the Publisher Of The Year (over 4% marketshare) Marvel and DC. Image also grabbed Best New Comic Book Series for[...]

How would that be possible anyway? Bleeding Cool investigations have unearthed that MailOrderComics.com over extended their credit with Diamond, in the region of a low six figure sum and basically last week, they didn't get the comics they'd ordered Attempts to get further credit and investment didn't bear fruit and so they on Tuesday they decided[...]

This looks like it will be the Top Ten list for 2013, to be supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors shortly Barring surprise numbers for Inhumanity #1, this may be as good as we get until it goes official, as far as direct market sales to comic stores in North America goes. Only one book cost $2.99,[...]

Retailers are invited to vote for the following products for the Diamond Gem Awards 2013, for items sold through the year Here are the nominations Retailers have until January 17th to vote – and get entered for a $100 worth of backlist for doing so, or 500 free bags… UPDATE: Now with all the categories 2013 Comic[...]

Next week, Marvel launches Inhumanity by Matt Fraction and Oliver Coipel. Avatar Press launches Garth Ennis's new book about dogs in the apocalypse, Red

Retailers have been caught on the back foot on the continual success of DC's big crossover event, Forever Evil, without suffering the sales dropoff that

The front and covers of Diamond's Previews catalogues are serious comic book real estate DC Comics are guaranteed a cover each month, as part of their initial exclusive deal with Diamond Comic Distributors As a result of this Marvel got their own mini-Previews all to themselves, so they could always have the covers to[...]

The publisher is offering up enhanced editions of each. The Enhanced Editions reprint the first two issues, are 32 pages with no ads and each includes a never before seen story in addition to the original content. The books are available through Diamond's Previews Plus until Monday November 1st… so grab them now! SEP138219 E  GOD IS DEAD #2 ENHANCED[...]

And there are extra costs for Diamond managing your return. But after DC's New 52 relaunch, they began to be viewed a a possible promotional exercise. Image Comics began using it as a way to launch comics from creative teams that retailers may not have been 100% sure about, tied into the numbers of comics a retailer[...]

We embrace them, hold them to our bosom and love them deeply. And that means we love other people's too. So when Diamond Comic Distributors sent out a press release entitled "Oni Press Resigns Distribution Agreement with Diamond" some people were surprised. That is until it was rapidly made clear that "re-signs" and "resigns" are a little too[...]

Well, not always. Thankfully, when I heard the rumour that Barnes & Noble were buying Diamond Comic Distributors, it did make a kind of sense From the doldrums a few years ago, Diamond has boomed on the rising sales of comics in the direct market and, well, the rising sales of The Walking Dead in bookstores[...]

DC Comics grabbed 56 of the Top 100 comics in September 2013, their best performance since the launch of the New 52. The highest 2D cover, The Joker,