Diamond Comic Distribution enter Chapter 11

Sad news in that the worldwide distributor of comics is in financial trouble.

The slightly better news is that I think our friends in the UK are OK in that their jobs seem to be safe. Let's hope that's the case as times are hard enough for everyone at the moment as it is.

Diamond have seen the likes of Marvel and DC move away in recent months and this no doubt contributed to their problems.

Not sure what it means to comic publishers in the UK as yet, time will tell I guess.

Time Bomb Comics have 3 comics in September's Previews Catalogue

Looks like it's just like the situation with buses, no Time Bomb Comics in Diamond Distribution's PREVIEWS catalogue for ages and then 3 come along at once...

So, if you fancy reading any of these then pop into you friendly neighbourhood comic store and use the codes (SEP23018, SEP23019 or SEP23020).. it's as easy as that.

WesterNoir Volume 2 is in the September PREVIEWS

The good news is that as WesterNoir Volume 1 did quite well in the PREVIEWS catalogue Diamond have accepted Volume 2 as well.

If you'd like your local comic shop to order you a copy (saving you postage), so you can follow Josiah Black's tale further, then you just need to ask them to order is using the Diamond code SEP232020.

WesterNoir Volume 1 books have reached Diamond's Warehouse

Despite the postal strikes etc in the UK, the boxes of WesterNoir Volume 1 have made it to Diamond.

Hopefully they'll be on their way across the Atlantic over the next few days.

WesterNoir Volume 1 on its way to Diamond Distributions

 It's been a tough year for me, I'll post later about my time in hospital but the ongoing result is that I'm currently unable to drive.

Before all of this happened we got WesterNoir Volume 1 listed in the Diamond catalogue, so that it could be ordered by shops around the globe, and we got a pretty good order from the USA.

And then I got ill, and then I moved house and then I realised that I'd be unable to get the stock from my Storage Locker easily or get them from my house to Diamond's warehouse up north.

Well a friend stepped in to help get them from my storage locker to my house and from there I used the Royal Mail's Collection service to get them from my house to Diamond.

It's a great feeling sending the books on their way.

We'll put Volume 2 in the catalogue sometime next year, probably around June.

 

Small Invisible Man update.

It's always difficult to know how well your comic books are doing once the boxes leave the house and are shipped around the globe through Diamond distribution. Every now and then I use an internet search to see if there are any reviews or comments.
It's encouraging to come across an article that indicates that it's selling out at Diamond after only a week... http://investcomics.com/features/sold-out-new-1-and-2-comics-for-january-8-2014-release-week, but then again we didn't get a huge order when you compare it with any of the big companies so it's no surprise I guess.
Haven't managed to find any recent reviews though, so I'm not sure what those people who have picked up a copy think of it.

Invisible Man seen in comic stores...

I've just been informed by my local comic shop (Millennium Comics in Northwich (thanks Dan)) that Missing - Have You Seen The Invisible Man? has been delivered by Diamond and so should be in stores across the country (and wider) as of tomorrow.

If you would like a copy then I suggest you pop in before they run out as stores don't tend to order many.
And please do let us know what you think of it.

Diamond Geezers.

Well I've finally managed to get my hands on a copy of the latest PREVIEWS catalogue from Diamond Distribution (number 268), and once again the guys at Diamond UK have done us proud.

We've taken on a lot of advice from Diamond UK over the years, which resulted in us improving our books (over a span of some 4 years) until they were good enough to attract the right kind of attention and interest from Retails and Readers alike.

It was obvious to me early on that Diamond would have no reason to put down a book that they believed would sell, so if they had problems with something then there would be nothing personal in their view. It's purely commercial, and based on their experience of the market.

Their experience of what sells and what doesn't is far greater than mine, so I've always taken their advice very seriously.

A few years later we took the result of our fine tuning to Diamond UK in the shape of The Wolfmen and the ZOMBIES anthology. The advice from Diamond this time was that we'd arrived. These books would look good on the shelves of Comic Stores across the globe, and they would be happy to recommend these books to the parent Diamond company in the US.

All of the Accent UK books since then have been listed in PREVEWS, and many have had attention drawn to them through Spotlights and other recommendations, and our latest book The Fall Of The Wolfmen is no different.

In fact in the PREVIEWS UK section of the catalogue the Diamond Geezers have gone so far as to make our double pack, adding the original The Wolfmen comic, a FEATURED ITEM.

This type of added exposure can only help raise the books profile, and we're very grateful.

In the global part of the catalogue, which is seen outside of the UK, they've highlighted the book with a CERTIFIED COOL logo. Again this is unexpected and very welcome.

All of this helps with getting our books out there and combined with the reviews we get is very encouraging.

It'll be a few months now until we get sales figures from Diamond, but all things considered there's not much more that they could do to push our books.

I know they've had a pretty bad press of late, but I will say that they've always been very helpful to us. We respect their input and I believe that they respect our approach to the whole thing.

I think it's what could be called 'a win win situation'.