52 Stories From ComicsPRO – Time To Catch Up On What You Missed Out On

Well, that was a busy few days in Memphis, Tennessee. Here are 52 stories from ComicsPRO – mostly covered by Bleeding Cool but there’s more besides. And bout to be more to come out later in the week…

Full house at the Diamond Comics Q&A at @comicspro annual meeting. pic.twitter.com/HxCAnQGKAK

— Matthew Price (@nerdage) February 16, 2017

State Of The Industry

• More Comics And Graphic Novels Sold In Comic Stores In 2016 Than In 2015, ComicsPRO Attendees Told By Diamond
• ComicsPRO Meeting, The Industry Equivalent Of The Bilderberg Group, Begins Today
• The Morning After The Night Before At ComicsPRO
• On Boycotting DC $3.99 Titles And The Lowest Marvel Sales In Years
• On Not Boycotting DC $3.99 Titles – And The Lowest Marvel Sales In Years
• Industry Awards Given
• Steve Olsen Elected To ComicsPRO Board, Pete Dolan Re-Elected

Exclusives

• DC Comics And Marvel Exclusives – And More – From ComicsPRO 2017…
• Dark Horse’s ComicsPRO 2017 Exclusives – Ashcans, Signs, Cocktail Parties And More
• IDW’s Exclusive Giveaways For ComicsPRO – And Highlander Variant They Will Destroy
• Boom Studios’ ComicsPRO 2017 Exclusives – Wrestlers, Green Lantern Rings, Keynote Speeches And More
• Valiant’s ComicsPRO 2017 Exclusives – Rings, Comics, Party Suites And More
• A Few Exclusive Variants For Attendees Of ComicsPRO
• Space Goat Exclusive Giveaways For ComicsPRO
• The Full List Of AfterShock Giveaways For ComicsPRO 2017

Marvel

• Make Mine Marvel At ComicsPRO
• Our First Look At Marvel’s Netflix Defenders In Comic Book Form – Ahead Of Free Comic Book Day, At ComicsPRO
• Marvel To Publish A Baby Groot Comic By Christopher Hastings And Flaviano, Announced At ComicsPRO
• Guardians Of The Galaxy: Mother Entropy By Jim Starlin And Alan Davis Finally Announced For ComicsPRO
• From Alex Ross And Marvel – All The Different ‘Generations’ Together
• Archie To Publish Marvel Comics In Big Box Stores And On Newsstands

DC Comics

• DC Comics To Do To Looney Tunes What They’ve Done To Hanna-Barbera, From ComicsPRO (UPDATE)
• Jim Lee’s Final Swipe Of Justin Bieber, Revealed At ComicsPRO
• Geoff Johns Has Plotted The Batman/Flash Watchmen Crossover – And It’s Heading To Flashpoint (UPDATE)
• DC Comics Announces A New Wonder Woman Day For 2017, On June 3rd

Image Comics

• Image Has Something Called A Dying Land

Dark Horse

• Berger Books, A New Line Of Comics From Karen Berger, Published By Dark Horse Comics, Announced At ComicsPRO
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Comic? Dark Horse Has Something To Crow About

IDW

• IDW Launch Funko Comic Books For Ghostbusters, TMNT, The X-Files, Strawberry Shortcake And Judge Dredd, Announced At ComicsPRO
• IDW Publishing Top 100 Comic Book Movies Book

Diamond

• AfterShock And Lion Forge Join Diamond’s Final Order Cut-Off Scheme
• Will Free Comic Book Day 2017 Be Smaller Than 2016?

Valiant

• Valiant Teases First Year of X-O Manowar With New Art From Giorello, Braithwaite & Crain For ComicsPRO
• Valiant Teases “Icons” at ComicsPRO
• Valiant Rolls Out Six-Figure Marketing & Sales Campaign for X-O Manowar #1
• Valiant Partners With Vans Warped Tour, Brings X-O Manowar, Faith, Bloodshot And More To 2017 Festival
• Valiant’s Warped Tour Partnership to Offer Comic Shops Free Exhibition Space

Archie

• Little Josie And The Pussycats From Archie Comics, Art Baltazar And Franco, At ComicsPRO

Boom

• Ross Richie’s Keynote Address To Retailers At ComicsPRO – “Lumberjanes – YOU Started That” (VIDEO UPDATE)
• BOOM Studios! To Have Their Logo In Front Of The Empty Man Movie
• Grumpy Cat To Meet Garfield In New Series From Dynamite/BOOM!
• BOOM! Studios To Offer Select Returnable Title Programme
• Legally Blonde’s Writer Kiwi Smith Writes New BOOM! Comic Tackling Female-Driven Comic Book Series Misfit City

Lion Forge

• Catalyst Prime’s Tour T-Shirt Lays Out The Comics Line – Free At ComicsPRO

Titan Comics

• Titan Confirms Publishing European Adaptation Of Millennium Trilogy At ComicsPRO
• Titan To Publish The Death Of Stalin Ahead Of The Armando Iannucci Movie, Announced At ComicsPRO
• Games Workshop’s Blood Bowl Turned Into Comics By Titan, Announced At ComicsPRO
• New Tekken Comic From Titan, Announced At ComicsPRO

Oni Press

• Oni Announce $1 Issues And $10 TPBs At ComicsPRO
• Oni Press Announce New Merchandise Line, Starting With Enamel Pins, At ComicsPRO

Space Goat

• Sneak Peek At Space Goat’s Presentation To ComicsPRO – Evil Dead 2, The Howling And Ted Naifeh’s Superheroines

F1rst Comics/Devil’s Due

• Bill Willingham Returns To Creator Owned Fantasy With 1First/Devil’s Due In 2017, Announcing At ComicsPRO

52 Stories From ComicsPRO – Time To Catch Up On What You Missed Out On

via https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/02/18/52-stories-comicspro-time-catch-missed/
Rich Johnston