Radical Hive

The comicon ended on Sunday, and I got home in the wee hours of Monday morning. The drive from Toronto to London gave me some time to mull things over and in the end I’d say that it was a fun weekend, and a mostly successful one at that. I got to meet [...]

One week from tonight I'll be winging my way down to Toronto for the Paradise Toronto Comicon, where All New Comics will be making its presence felt for the second year in a row. It will be a pretty good time, but secretly I dread it a little bit.
I like the actual show part, [...]

I already discussed that Free Comic Book Day was a huge success, new people are still visiting the site and buying stuff from us, and we’ve made a tiny profit despite the huge expenses of shipping Free Comics this month. This, as Martha Stewart would say, is a “good thing”. What’s not good [...]

So last Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, and for the second year in a row All New Comics participated, despite the Brick and Mortar based “Free Comic Book Day” Committee’s desire to keep online retailers like us from doing so.
At midnight on May 5th we posted our ten selections, and within minutes people were [...]

At work I'm knee deep in a redesign of our corporate website, while at home I'm toying around with a pretty major redesign of All New Comics. This one is mostly just visual, but I'm going to group a bunch of things together and make the site a little more graphic…I know, what a [...]

The Toronto Star had an article in yesterday's paper about how comics are losing their value. Of course no actual figures were given on how comics are losing their value, the article was horribly written and incredibly disjointed, and had no merit other than a pithy title that cashes in on a failed TV [...]

It has been a busy bunch of months, but finally after all that time, I'm off for a week! Time to sit down, take a load off, chillax, and do pretty much nothing.
…or maybe not.
I'm pretty much swamped at work lately, even with the addition of a new developer. Actually, that's [...]

Every now and then I daydream. Lately those daydreams have been about comic stores. I still have this dream to open a comic store, and one day I will…the question is, what kind of comic store? Will it be hip and trendy, cool but safe, or totally out there?
This isn't something that [...]

Last weekend was the real world debut of All New Comics at the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon, and it was a big success both financially and in terms of getting our name out there.
On Friday we got to the National Trade Centre around 11am, and started to set up for the 3pm start time. [...]

So with All New Comics poised to become a HUGE online success story, I've been thinking about what our next steps should be (because that's what makes me a big picture thinker…I think 5 steps ahead of the curve). Of course our first steps are to become a massive online resource, but eventually we're [...]