I had the coolest job for a 16 year old ever thanks to Gord and Brian during the Bid Time Returns era. I started on the shop on Queens, helped open both the downtown and White Oaks Endless Adventures, moved to the Dundas street store, and went on to Heroes with Mike and Sean. I [...]
Posts Tagged: All New Comics
This is My Next, Well What Exactly?
2011 marked several significant milestones for me. I turned 40, Charlene and I celebrated our 10th anniversary, December marks 5 years at Info-Tech for me, our basement, begun October 2009 will finally be fully finished Also, my hands-on, day-to-day involvement with All New Comics ended. It’s been six years since I joined up with Peter [...]
New Comics Preview for December 2010
Here’s a little peek at what’s shipping in December from publishers big and small. As always, make sure you get your pre-orders in to All New Comics as soon as possible to ensure you get everything you’re looking for. DC Comics: The Batman Hush – Unwrapped Deluxe Edition HC presents all 320 pages of Jeph [...]
New Comics Previews for November 2010
Well, it’s the end of September, which of course means we at All New Comics are thinking about November’s comics. There’s loads coming out, and there’s plenty of stuff to stock up on. From the end of my favourite series of Hardcovers (Starman Volume 6 comes out this month, putting a bow on the Starman [...]
New Comics for September 2010
It’s the middle of summer, so of course, our minds wander to the month of September, when we go back to school, back to work, traffic gets busier, and a ton of new comics come out. This is my monthly look at the Diamond Previews catalogue. If you’re a subscriber at All New Comics, make [...]
Why Comic Shops Can’t Afford Larger Discounts
I recently sent out a survey (here is the survey, and here are the results), and one of the choices I let people choose was “give a larger discount”. I also suggested we might start a referral program, and the overwhelming choice there was “give a % discount on my subscriptions”. Unfortunately I don’t think [...]
New Comics for August 2010
Wow, this summer is just flying by. We saw some of you at the Toronto ComiCon the first weekend in June, and we hope that we’ll see more of you come out to the big August show in Toronto (not only is it Canada’s largest comic show, but it’s North America’s 3rd largest comic show). [...]
My Comics for November 2009
I put out our monthly email about the great new stuff that we’ve added to All New Comics and I’m this is what I’m adding to my own Comics Pull List. I’m trying to keep my monthly list pretty much status quo, so I don’t want to add more stuff than I take off (through [...]
Fan Expo in review
August 28th to 30th was the annual Fan Expo Canada (yeah…almost two weeks ago!), and once again All New Comics was there. Initial reports have the attendance pegged at 59,000 people, and I’ve gotta say…it sure looked like about that many people to me. I got there Friday afternoon (after being busy Friday morning with [...]
See you at the Fan Expo!
Work is done, and I’m heading home. Tomorrow morning I’m going to set the framing guys up with what we want them to do…and then I’m off to Toronto for 3 fun filled days and nights at Fan Expo Canada, hanging with my nerdly brothers and sisters. Check out the All New Comics Twitter account [...]
