Industry-Wide Effort a Major Step Forward for Comic Industry
February 2, 2002
Free Comic Book Day is gaining strength as more publishers have agreed to participate and as the promotional heat picks up.
Launched February 1, 2001
February 2, 2002
An official ICv2 release. GCO, LLC President Milton Griepp announced that ICv2, the site with news and information for pop culture retailers, has reached its one-year anniversary.
First Printing of 40,000
January 30, 2002
The first printing of the Dark Horse/Chaos 9-11 benefit trade paperback has sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors and is going back to press.
Based on Mignola Comic from Dark Horse
January 30, 2002
Steve Jackson Games and Dark Horse Comics have announced that Steve Jackson Games will be producing an RPG based on Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic, which is published by Dark Horse.
Lord of the Rings, Comics Strong Sellers
January 15, 2002
In the midst of a recession and in the wake of the economic turmoil created by the 9-11 attacks, the pop culture retailers surveyed by ICv2 reported strong sales in December. Let's take a look at some of the categories...
Other Major Publishers Down
January 13, 2002
Marvel was the only major comic publisher with U.S. direct market growth in 2001, according to our analysis of circulation and dollar data from the last two years.
More Calendars for 2003
January 8, 2002
In addition to the comic art calendars featuring work by U.S. based artists, Tide-Mark has two other offerings that should be of major interest to pop culture retailers.
Image and Dark Horse Titles
January 7, 2002
For 2003 Tide-Mark has stepped to the plate and acquired a number of key titles based on properties published by Dark Horse and Image Comics.
Plus Aliens, Predator
January 6, 2002
Palisades Marketing, a Maryland-based company that specializes in creating toys for collectors, has acquired licenses to create a line of Micronauts toys, as well as minibusts for G.I. Joe , Alien, and Predator .
Closing Chicago Warehouse
January 5, 2002
LPC Group, which distributes comic and manga trade paperbacks and hardcovers to the book trade,has outsourced its logistics to Client Distribution Services (CDS) and is closing its Chicago warehouse.
