Retailer Q | #5: Non-superhero Market

Welcome to Retailer Q, spinning 52Q’s format at top Canadian comic retailers.  Comic Book Daily asks the question and our retail friends give their perspective. Is the non-superhero market alive and well from a comic shop perspective? Calum Johnston, owner of Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities, Canada’s oddest comic bookstores. Trying to share the comic book goodness. Alive and kicking for stores that do some outreach. So many people looking for material like Hark! A Vagrant, Darwyn Cooke’s Parker, Craig Thompson’s Habibi, Love & Rockets, Locke & Key – stocking it is only part of the...

1941 In Comics Aug16

1941 In Comics

This weeks Pick 5 is a little bit different.  Since there are many lists that feature “this day in”, I thought I would try it here.  So this week’s Pick 5 are big events in a given year.  The year I chose is 1941.  A very big year for comics. #5 – Adventures of...

SDCC 2011 – Comics, ...

The Annual 42 Comic-Con International was held in San Diego, California, July 20 – 25. The weekend ended with a bang as Cowboys and Aliens premiered, Hugh Jackman made a special appearance, and Arkham City was released to the masses for a little preview. Twitter was full of information....

Auction Highlights #44

A regular reader of my Auction Highlights sent me this link. I like it and I’ll break with the tradition of highlighting just graded comics to report it to you...

Cliff Chiang's Archie...

Cliff Chiang shares his cover for the Hero Initiative’s newest cover project, which features artists drawing their own rendition of the cover to Archie #600. You can check out more covers and read more about the project here. Is it just me or is this more than a little Love and...

Trailer: Run, Archie, Run

Of all the comic books that I really could do without in seeing in video game form Archie is up there. But apparently someone out there thought that there was a market for it. I suppose if it was a real time strategy game (like The Last Express) where all events happen in real-time and you...