This week, Rob Salkowitz sees signs of a rebound from fan conventions to art and collectibles to movies.

The hobby games channel grew around 15% in 2020, behind big sales increases in TCGs and miniatures, and growth in online sales.

We talk to the owners of Megabrain Comics about learning how to buy, improving the store location, Covid pivots, and other lessons.

CMON is publishing the medical-themed We Care – A Grizzled Game, with a portion of the sales benefiting Doctors Without Borders.

Games Workshop released an update on the status of the Warhammer releases going into 2021.

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

The sessions include the ICv2 White Paper, a conversation on creating and distributing COVID-era comic stories, insights on 2020 from NPD from its vast data resources, and a conversation with Keith Knight, whose comics with racial justice themes were the inspiration for the new Hulu series Woke.

The hobby games business started strong in the first two months of 2020, but was then brought low and transformed; we analyze the COVID impacts on each level of the business.

We caught up with VIZ Media Vice President Publishing Sales Kevin Hamric to find out how manga’s been doing in the COVID era, and learned about binge reading, box sets, volume 1s, and other recent trends.

Rob Salkowitz's annual column sharing the best bets for business-people at (or in this case viewing) San Diego Comic-Con.