A smattering of interesting news has occurred in comics. I'm not sure any of these are wild enough for me to make a full post about them, but a little overview of some comic-book news sounds like a nice way to catch up on some happenings!
BOOM! is integrating itself more within its distributor, Penguin Random House. Despite this restructuring, they are still their own publisher and, "Independent," to a degree, but PRH definitely has a lot more involvement in, ..."direct-to-consumer and business development efforts." Speaking of PRH, the publisher known as Drawn and Quarterly has partnered with them for distribution. We are seeing more and more consolidation with PRH and Lunar serving as the new home for a chunk of publishers (along with some other options emerging on the scene for smaller indies) who were impacted by the slow and painful death of Diamond.
In other news, I have been a longtime fan of (unfortunately) beleaguered publisher Silver Sprocket. They've had a store in San Fransciso for some time, but a sudden closure has now occurred of the shop, and I do worry about the publisher itself.
DC and Marvel are working on getting stores to order more of their comics lately through various methods. DC is offering packs of comics at discounts of up to 80% if a retailer orders extra copies of a series, and Marvel has added an extra 10% discount if orders on later issues of a comic match earlier orders.
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