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Marketshare Per Comic – A New Way Of Measuring Publisher Performance
From the new August figures; PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 33.70% DC COMICS 30.16% IMAGE COMICS 7.86% IDW PUBLISHING 5.70% DARK HORSE COMICS 5.47% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.01% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.05% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.34% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.95% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.94% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.83% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 36.30% DC COMICS 33.14% IMAGE COMICS 8.51% IDW PUBLISHING 4.98% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.80% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.93% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.07% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 1.03% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.97% ASPEN MLT INC 0.65% OTHER NON-TOP 10 So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
Saga Wins Big At 2013 Harvey Awards, Plus Complete List Of Winners
Vaughan from Image comics  Following up its three Eisner Awards this year, the series and its creators have taken home six Harvey Awards tonight  Here's the complete list of Harvey Award winners, via Bleeding Cool senior New York Correspondent, Hannah Means-Shannon reporting from the Baltimore Comic-Con: Letterer: Todd Klein for Fables Color: Fiona Staples for Saga Syndicated strip: Dick[...]
Shining A Spotlight – Brent Peeples
He's done work for Aspen, Image and Zenescope with a few things in the works now and he posts a lot of his new work on his blog so you can keep up with his latest stuff But talk is cheap, lets get to the interview and art: BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing? BRENT PEEPLES:[...]
Joker's Daughter Dominates Advance Reorders – But Saga And Sex Criminals Do Well Too
But the launch of Image comic Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky And with the film on the way, and lots of publicity everywhere, X-Men: Days Of Future Past puts Marvel at the top of the Reorder list for comics already out. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL) Product Price Publisher BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #23.4[...]
Talking To Glen Brunswick About Reality Check #1, Out Today
Rich Johnston talked to Glen Brunswick about his new Image Comic book with Victor Bogdanovic, published by Image Comics today. Rich: They say write what you know Reality Check is a comic about a guy trying to create a comic book in the current marketplace, battling with loneliness, rejection, sexual inadequacy… and creating a really bad[...]
Speculator Corner: Love Stories (To Die For) #1 And Reality Check #1
New Image Comics issue one For some, that means a speculatory opportunity, a chance to buy up a stack and sell them when the moment is ripe And certainly Image Comics launches have been good for that of late But will it work? Love Stories (To Die For) Pros: Shadowline has produced a number of "sleeper" hits over[...]
Jonathan Ross And Ian Churchill's The Revenger – A New Comic For 2014
And a teaser image. The Revenger, by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill, to be published in January. Ross has Image titles Turf and America's Got Powers to his name but is better known in the UK as the our preeminent TV broadcaster and chat show host Churchill has X-Men, Supergirl, Cable and more recently Marineman on his resume. The[...]
Why We Are Going To Be Even More Obsessed With Saga Ten Years From Now
She regularly presents images that are meant to stretch belief and imagination in ways that go much further than necessity demands Her work on full-page spreads helps unpack the story and gives the reader time to process the strangeness of what they are seeing while her close-ups and tighter panels challenge the reader to keep[...]
Image Give Massive Discount To Retailers Who Order Saga #13 Second Print
Image Comics has massively increased the profit margin on the second print of Saga #13, by increasing the discount to an unprecedented degree. This is to encourage increased orders and promotions on the book from retailers The second print will come out on September the 25th, the same day Saga #14 comes out Along with the[...]
Have The Unfunnies Been Excommunicated From Millarworld?
In November, Image is publishing The Art of Millarworld, featuring every Mark Millar creator owned title cover, regardless of publisher. In the '40s, it was DC In the '60s, it was Marvel Now Millarworld has reshaped comics in the 21st century and turned into a powerhouse force to be reckoned with Riding a wave of grand[...]
Becky Cloonan's Cover For Ales Kot's Zero (UPDATE: Now With Added Paul Pope)
The first issue, in which Zero encounters a bioengineered terrorist whose body is a bomb, is drawn by Michael Walsh, who previously worked on the critically-acclaimed time travel Image series COMEBACK, written by Ed Brisson. Subsequent issues will be drawn by comics stars like Mateus Santolouco (Dial H, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Morgan Jeske (CHANGE), Tradd[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Batman Beats Infinity
Or how in one store Batman Li'l Gotham makes the top 10 but I doubt that it will hold against the other stores that contribute. Infinity did gangbusters! A really strong week for Image with the shipment of three of their strongest titles Saga has actually outsold Walking Dead so far this week; though I do[...]