TableStar Games is back in the board game business as of Q4 2020.

Wingspan was the top board game in the hobby channel for Summer with enough product hitting the market to allow retailers to meet demand.

Penn State University Press will kick off its new graphic novel imprint Graphic Mundi with COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, a volume that collects more than 60 short comics by various creators, both emerging and well known. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this anthology will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc).

In a sign that the trade show landscape has been permanently altered by Covid, ReedPop has "retired" BookExpo, BookCon, and UnBound "in their current formats."

Twogether Studios has announced that it will keep The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance card game off Amazon through the holiday season.

Trends in the gaming miniatures market that formed in 2019 accelerated during the Covid summer.

On November 20, eight people were shot, none fatally, at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin where a Board Game Barrister store is located. We interviewed owner Gordon Lugauer about his experience and his recommendations for other retailers.

Comic publishers not named Marvel or DC are already looking up a steep slope.

Executives from two large companies in the geek culture space are out, in the latest shake-ups in a year disrupted by the arrival of a global pandemic.

In this presentation recorded at the ICv2 Insider Talks 2020 Livestream, NPD executive Kristen McLean used NPD's POS, streaming, and wider consumer data to help us understand the 2020 trends in graphic novels.