Tarot Witch of the Black Rose Number 76
Written by Jim Balent
Printed by Broadsword Comics
Knowing that Tarot disappears in issues 77 and 78, this is the last big comic that has Tarot as the feature. Tarot is a kick ass kind of girl, who has fought just about everything you can imagine, or that Jim can imagine. She has taken on and won agains [...]
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Tarot Witch of the Black Rose Number ...
Tarot Witch of the Black Rose Number 76
Written by Jim Balent
Printed by Broadsword Comics
Knowing that Tarot disappears in issues 77 and 78, this is the last big comic that has Tarot as the feature. Tarot is a kick ass kind of girl, who has fought just about everything you can imagine, or that Jim can imagine. She has taken on and won agains [...]
Safe Comic Book stores for kids, ladi...
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Safe Comic Book stores for kids, ladies, transgendered and everyone else
Something tells me I am going to really like 2013 because of this. We have all heard the same old story, about how women have a hard time feeling comfortable let alone spending enough time in comic book stores. When I go to places lik [...]
The Comic book Straight Jacket
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My friend Robb Orr over at Comicbooked wrote an interesting article that you should probably go read this morning about the comic book industry. In the article (for those that won’t go over there and read what Robb has to say) Robb more than suggests that the comic book readership that relies only on Marvel or DC is real [...]
Amazon EBooks Ecomic Books and the de...
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Sara Lacy over on Pando Daily has an interesting viewpoint from an unnamed anonymous person in the publishing industry that she has posted over on the Pando Daily. Add to that an interesting interview with CBC and Seth Godin over at Business Insider and you get a really depressing feeling for what is coming about next. Wit [...]
2011 Comic Book Market by the Numbers
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The annual “how did we do” numbers are out over at Comicchron.com with some interesting commentary by Brian Hibbs over at CRB’s Tilting at Windmills. Numbers like this are always interesting to gauge the health of the comic book market, and are something that people should be paying attention to. While these [...]
The Next Indie Distributor
Imagine more books like these at your LCS
No, I am not announcing my return to the comics biz. But I have had a few interesting conversations this past month with a couple people who you are looking to throw their hat in the ring to try to come to the rescue of small press creators and independent publishers. It’s nice to know I’ [...]
Surviving the new age of Digital Comi...
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What follows is a personal opinion, some of this includes my business model for surviving the changes in the industry, how you take this is up to you. I am more than willing to talk about the industry, and what we are doing to keep on growing.
I write this as one of the new breed of comic book stores, I ha [...]
Fandancer by Geoff Grogan
Everything by Geoff Grogan
Mixed media comic books, it is not as surprising as it might sound, Ashley Wood has done a lot of mixed media comic style books through the years. It is nice to see someone else following along in the same style and vein as Ashley, so immediately a comic book like this is going to grab my attention. Mixed media comi [...]
Where to shop now that Haven is close...
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This is going to be the hardest hole to fill for our online only comic book store, where to find independents, things not in the Diamond Catalog for our online only store. This is where life is going to be hard for the robust online selling community. Of course there is always craig’s list, but finding large collections [...]
Comic Market Tuesday A Comic Shop thi...
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If you are not following #comicmarket on Tuesdays you are missing some deep insight from comic store owners. Comic Market takes place on twitter, and while there is always some activity on the channel, Tuesdays is the day where a lot of comic book stores spend time talking about what they are doing, what is happening in [...]
Why are publishers turning down money...
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This is one of my more difficult blog entries to write, but as we make a valiant attempt at starting a distribution business there has been one pretty consistent issue that has been keeping us from getting the products we want to support into the distribution channels.
That is the inability to contact publishers because [...]
Comic Book Ink in Tacoma Washington i...
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Making the rounds this morning is the news that Comic Book Ink in Tacoma Washington is in danger of failing. Comics Forge and its affiliates received this unhappy news this morning and is asking all of its readers to think about this for a minute and see what you can do to support them. The comic book industry is trouble [...]
And we are getting nearer to having a...
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So you love comics’ right, and you own a comic book store, but sometimes what you are looking for is just not in stock. That is where we wanted to come in. Over the last couple of months we have been talking to a lot of publishers about opening up a wholesale site for comic book stores, and today we are getting closer to [...]