Wayne Talks FoC
Meanwhile over at Newsarama, Bob Wayne discusses DC's implementation of the FoC system. You'll recall that this system--which Marvel has been using for some time now--allows retailers to lower or raise their orders for...
Changes in the market
Last Friday Brian Hibbs had one of his usual thought provoking columns at Newsarama, and this one looked at a very interesting trend: comics shops opening up accounts with Baker & Taylor to buy...
Diamond to distribute HOUSE OF SUGAR
Some good news to start off the weekend. Hope Larson writes to say that Diamond will carry HOUSE OF SUGAR by Rebecca Kraatz after all.
I just heard from Jim Kuhoric that Diamond has...
Citizens flee CIVIL WAR
Apparently, the late shipping CIVIL WAR #4 shipped this week, with many shocking revelations. (Hint: We're going to need a bigger grave.) However, reaction in the blogosphere has been, well, contemptuous.
Normally we take...
Indies publisher sign up for digital delivery
McCloud was right! Micropayments! Sort of. DriveThruComics.com is a spin off of a very sucessful RPG downloading site that has begun to offer downloads of comics from Dabel Brothers Productions, Shi, About Comics,...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan.
Rather than wait multiple months for the next volume of...
DC COMICS MONTH-TO-MONTH SALES: JULY 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
July was a very busy month for DC Comics, in terms of new projects. The publisher's line of mainstream superhero titles was headed by the first issue of crime novelist Brad...
SNAKES one more time
The dissappointing showing of SNAKES ON A PLANE continues to haunt Hollywood, and the Internet may not be our friend any more. Someone sent us this link to THR's Martin Grovevery long and thorough...
Tower Files for Bankruptcy
Tower Records has filed a Chapter 11 for the 2nd time in 2 year, Publishers Weekly reports:
The beleaguered music and video chain, which launched an online bookstore as recently as last March, went into...
Cold Cut’s new policy
Yesterday, Cold Cut Distribution announced that they were instituting an across the board discount for retailers, as opposed to a tiered system base on how the size of the order. MacGuffin explains why it's...
Where is your messiah now, Internets?
As you all know by now, SNAKES ON A PLANE, the internet driven movie phenomenon which saw Samuel L. Jackson intoning "M-----f---in' snakes on a m-----f---in' plane!" everywhere nerd hipsters congregate, was a first...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales July 2006
BY PAUL O'BRIEN
Well, here's something I never thought I'd see - a month where most of the six-month comparisons are going up. July was an extremely good month for Marvel, mostly thanks to...
