Comic Book Blogs

I've worked in the publishing industry for 4 years - first in the B2B and more recent in the newspaper industry. I get it....everything is moving digital. I've seen businesses give up $20M in print revenue and replace it with $2M in digital - known as print dollars for digital dimes. It is no different in the comic book industry. I really like reading comics on...
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As we near remembrance Sunday 11/11/12 I thought I would write a post about one of my favorite comic strips from my childhood in the 1980's. Charley's War was a story that appeared in the Battle comic from 1979 to 1985. The Battle comic was produced by IPC Publications to rival the Warlord comic. Charley's War first appeared in the Battle in...
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I followed through with my previous blog post about handing out comic books at Halloween to kids. The industry is trying to create a second "free comic book day" to coincide with Halloween. My biggest problem is that the industry expects kids to come to the store. What we need to do is go where the kids are. That being said I contacted my LCS and had them...
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OK...Although this list of Top 5 Pumpkin-Related Comic Book Characters is kinda cool, pumpkins are NOT the first thing I think about on Halloween. In fact, according to wikipedia's background on Halloween , the "carving" of items originated with carving turnips in Ireland and Scotland. So....where is the list of Top 5 Turnip Related Comic Book Characters for...
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Gene Simmons of KISS has the ability to come up with more marketing schemes than anyone I know. Even when they are not able to produce more music, he comes up with different ways of packaging their older music into new albums (yeah, I still call them albums) in order to make a buck wherever they can. Don't get me wrong, next to The Beatles , KISS is probably my...
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