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Sign here please

With changes to independent comic book distribution through Diamond Comics Distribution, getting your independent comic into the hands of people and noticed has become increasingly difficult. While there are lots of different ways to market your comic electronically, one of the most effective ways is still face-to-face marketing through store and convention signings. One of [...]

October 30, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Surviving the 24 Hour Comic Day Challenge

Last week, we talked about the 24 Hour Comic Day Challenge. The 24 Hour Comic Day Challenge is an event where comic creators devoted an entire day to creating a 24 page comic book from scratch. To reach the goal requires perseverance and dedication. There are some tips that can help you to stay focused [...]

September 22, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

24 Hour Comics Day Challenge

Can you imagine what you could accomplish if you just set aside a whole day of uninterrupted time? That what comic book creator and theorist Scott McCloud asked himself in 1990. He and his fellow artist, Steve Bissette, seemed to struggle to create more than one comic page a day. Yet, when Steve went to [...]

September 11, 2009 Quarter Bin 4 Comments

Cracking the Internet in half

In the five years since I’ve gone from being a comic book fan to comic book retailer I’ve heard news from Marvel that was supposed to crack the Internet in half. After all those years, they did it. In case this is the only website you ever read, Disney announced that they had [...]

August 31, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

Now serving…

It used to be that when you waited in line, you took a number and waited until you were called. Delis had them. Post Offices had them. They were everywhere. Things have changed and the number dispensers aren’t as prevalent anymore. What I liked about the number counts was that you knew where you stood. [...]

August 6, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Fanboy Faux Pas – Six Degrees to Blackest Night

Sometimes Fanboy Faux Pas can have positive effects that extend beyond the object of fanboy affection. Attending my first San Diego Comic-con, I got into the groove of going to the signings at the DC Comics booth. My favorite character is Batman. I saw that Judd Winnick was signing and I had to see him. [...]

July 25, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Fanboy Faux Pas – It gets ugly fast

For someone whose primary purpose of going to Cons is to meet comic book creators in the hopes that some day they might come to my shop to do a signing, I sure say some messed up things. Sensitive readers should stop reading past this point because it gets ugly real fast.
It was the spring [...]

July 25, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

Fanboy Faux Pas – Down with the Brown

I have this friend. He is a big time indy comics fan. He’s done a lot for the local indy comic scene. He even writes his own mini-comics. His name is Brandon Huigens. Brandon loves Jeffrey Brown. When I started to build inventory for the store I picked up a few of Jeffrey Brown’s books. [...]

July 24, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Circus

The greatest show on Earth comes to San Diego. It’s nothing that B.T. Barnum could have ever imagined in his wildest dreams. If you don’t believe that it’s a circus, you’ve never been to the San Diego Comic-con. Where else could you see elves, Hobbits, Leia in her Slave Girl costume, Catman and Spider-man all [...]

July 24, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Labels

I want to talk about labels. I’m not talking about shipping labels, although I could probably discuss how much Avery 8126 labels have changed how I ship comics. I want to talk about labels that people put on us and we put on ourselves. I want to talk about labels, titles or job descriptions. Comic [...]

July 13, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

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