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Reminder: Today’s the last day of free shipping in time for Christmas from Amazon

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  • December 16, 2010

And if you want to support ComicMix every time you shop at Amazon, bookmark this link and use it whenever you do your online shopping.

Again: We are NOT asking you to forgo shopping at your local comic store, far from it. Support your local shops. If you don’t know if you have one near you, go to the Comic Shop Locator. Many stores really need your support– Cosmic Comics in NYC, for example, is doing 80% off of back issues from now to the end of the year. They were very close to closing, and have survived only with a last minute reprieve.

What we are thankful for, and how you can help ComicMix (and thank you for asking)

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  • November 24, 2010

We’re thankful to you. Each and every one of you who keeps coming back to the site because you like the people, or the comics, or the occasional snark.  We all know how tough it is out there, not acknowledging that fact doesn’t make it any less tight in the wallet. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who
arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress
in this period in history. But we’re glad that you’re here, reading and occasionally commenting.

We’d also like to ask you, if you’re doing any shopping at Amazon this holiday season, do it through us and help us keep the lights on. If you want to support ComicMix every time you shop at Amazon, bookmark this link and use it whenever you do your online shopping. And if you order before December 16th, you can still get free shipping before Christmas ends.

We are NOT asking you to forgo shopping at your local comic store, far from it. Support your local shops. If you don’t know if you have one near you, go to the Comic Shop Locator. Many stores are doing door-buster sales– Cosmic Comics in NYC, for example, is doing 80% off of back issues and 50% off new books on Friday. I don’t care what kind of advantage you get from Amazon, that’s real tough to beat.

Things may be a bit light over the next few days with holidays and tech stuff, so enjoy yourself and watch out for crazy drivers and rogue TSA agents.

SCARLET SPIDER costume added to SPIDER-MAN: SHATTERED DIMENSIONS

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, SPIDER-MAN: SHATTERED DIMENSIONS is the newest video game to put players in the webbed shoes of the arachnid hero.  Spanning across multiple alternate universes, Spidey has to contain the magic of a mysterious tablet that sends him through varied versions of his reality in order to restore things to what he knows as “normal”.  Through these four main dimensions, players will control uniquely skilled and powerful versions of the iconic character.  While the four dimensions have already been announced (Amazing, Noir, 2099 and Ultimate), another costume, presumably used as an alternate for one of the already announced dimensions, has been revealed via the following trailer.  This, in addition to the two pre-order exclusive costumes (Cosmic Spider-Man from GameStop and Iron Spider from Amazon) makes seven different versions so far for the game.  For more info on the title, out on September 7th, you can check out the official website at http://www.spidermandimensions.com/

How Amazon could force comics to go digital

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  • January 30, 2010

Remember about a month back, we posted an article about Fox Networks and Time Warner Cable playing hardball over being carried?

Well, as of Friday books from Macmillan, including all sub-imprints like Tor books and St. Martin’s Press, have vanished from Amazon.com. According to the New York Times, the disappearance is the result of a disagreement
between Amazon.com
and book publishers that has been brewing for the last year. Macmillan,
like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of
electronic books from $9.99 to around $15. Amazon is expressing its
strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books.

Now with this as a precedent, let’s take it to the next level:

“Hello, DC Comics? Jeff Bezos here. Hey, how come we don’t have Batman: Black & White available for the Kindle yet?”

“Oh really? Do you know how many thousands of copies of Watchmen we sold for you last year? How many Batman and Sandman graphic novels? Don’t even get me started on Smallville DVD sets.”

“Let me spell it out for you. If we don’t start getting files for the Kindle by the end of this month, we’re going to stop selling the print editions of your books.”

Think it can’t happen? Are you sure?

A Good Day for ‘Monty Python’ Fans

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  • November 20, 2008

It’s a good day for Monty Python fans.  First, Amazon is offering the just-released box set of the entire pioneering television deeply discounted for 24 hours. The normal $99.99 list price is down to a mere $39.99 until midnight.

Meantime, the Monty Python troupe now has a YouTube channel featuring about 24 collections of clips, outtakes and interviews with the gang. And instead of pretending its all about getting to know its audience, the group admits the channel is a direct ploy to sell Monty Python DVDs and merchandise, utilizing YouTube’s new partnership with Amazon (see above).
 

Amazon Now Selling Comic Subscriptions

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  • August 17, 2008

Maybe some bean counter finally tallied up all those comic book trade paperback sales. But Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer of, well, just about everything is now offering comic book subscriptions. Not for collected editions, but the regular old monthly books that some call “floppies.”

Is this a direct attack against your local comic store? Hardly. Amazon has been offering magazine subscriptions for years now. Adding comics to the mix is just an expansion of that business.

The offerings from Amazon are for the more mainstream, monthly comics. Not the best-sellers only found in direct market shops, like Secret Invasion, but titles more likely to appeal to the “My son really liked the Dark Knight movie, so let me get him a subscription to Batman” set.

It’s true that this could potentially take some casual market dollars out of dealers’ hands, but today’s shared universe, interconnected comics might have those readers seeking out stores for more titles. And think of the benefit to readers who live nowhere near a comic shop.

‘Watchmen’ Atop Amazon Fiction Sales

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  • July 28, 2008

watchmen-cover-2203991From a Wired article about the excessive success of this year’s Comic-Con is a little tidbit about the success of comics: Watchmen is now sitting at the top of Amazon’s fiction and literature sales list.

DC has been printing up copies like mad to meet the demand, which is of course churned up by the upcoming Zack Snyder film adaptation.

From the article:

Last week’s release of the movie’s trailer sent sales of a paperback collection of Alan Moore’s original Watchmen comics through the roof. The graphic novel now sits at the top of Amazon.com’s literature and fiction sales list.

"That’s never happened before," said DC’s Levitz. "We literally can’t print enough…. I don’t think we’ve been able to kill any more trees fast enough."

Comics & F&SF People Speak To You

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  • July 22, 2007

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Comic Book Resources talks to Eric Powell about The Goon.

The eighth week of “X-Position” from Comic Book Resources is an interview with Peter David about what’s going on in the X-books. (Silly, CBR, don’t you know that exposition will never wash away the sins of mankind?)

Comic Book Resources also chats with Dynamite Entertainment Publisher Nick Barrucci about their upcoming Alex Ross/Jim Krueger book Superpowers.

SciFi Wire interviews Ellen Datlow about her new anthology (with Terri Windling) The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales.

Amazon’s blog has a quick phone conversation with Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, in the middle of his tour.

Transmissions from Wintermute interviews short story writer Benjamin Rosenbaum.

Who’s your daddy, Dagwood?

blondie-2640056They’re about to throw the book at Blondie.

Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History by strip writer Dean Young (son of Chic Young, Blondie’s real daddy) and Melena Ryzik have penned the definitive tale of the world’s most heavily circulated newspaper comic strip. Even if you find today’s efforts rather mundane, Blondie started out as a continuity strip: the story of millionaire Dagwood Bumstead and his love for jazz-age flapper Blondie – despite the threat of being disinherited by his family! 

Yep, Blondie’s roots are dark, indeed. Personally, I want to find out what happened to Daisy’s many, many pups. They all disappeared, you know. Hmmmm…

According to Amazon.com: It’s all here in this definitive book for the Blondie fan: Blondie and Dagwood, their children Alexander and Cookie, their neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, the family dog Daisy, Dagwood’s boss Mr. Dithers, the mailman Mr. Beasley, and the neighborhood kid Elmo Tuttle. The book includes early history; Dagwood at work, Blondie’s starting her catering business, favorite cartoon strips, and the story of Chic and Dean Young, the creators of Blondie.

Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History comes out this August.

(Artwork copyright King Features Syndicate. All Rights Reserved.)

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