Game Kastle adds a new location in San Jose.

A Fall surge of TCG products tested the limits of the market in 2022, leaving winning and losing brands behind, according to what we heard from retailers, distributors, and publishers in the TCG business.

Diamond Comic Distributors has signed on as Co-Sponsor of ICv2’s year-long celebration of the comics Direct Market, which will mark its 50th anniversary in 2023.

The distribution deal comes as Moore readies a new collected edition of Strangers In Paradise, which will be released later this year.

Marvel’s exclusive variants will feature Peter Parker and Miles Morales, while Z2’s will have Tori Amos and Weird Al Yankovic.

The entire story is collected in a 424-page hardcover.

As Diamond and Alliance continue to recover from a ransomware attack, Diamond customers will receive three Marvel titles a week later than retailers who use PRHPS.

IDW Publishing, which had been operating under an expired agreement with Diamond, is the second major publisher in the comics market to move periodical distribution to Penguin Random House.

We caught up with VIZ Media VP Kevin Hamric for Manga Week to talk about what’s happening in the manga market, the manga supply chain, and the hot titles.

These are rankings of unit sales of graphic novels to comic stores by Diamond Comic Distributors for September 2020.