Comic book shops and a publisher in St. John’s are still grappling with the repercussions more than a year after a major distributor declared bankruptcy.
Diamond Distribution, one of the world’s largest English comic book distribution companies, filed for bankruptcy in the United States in January 2025. For decades, it had been a supplier of comic books, board games, collectives and figures.
“Truly, everything you see in my shop, like, at one point I could have ordered from Diamond,” said Kerri Neil, owner of Downtown Comics in St. John’s.
Neil now orders from eight different distribution companies to stock her shelves. She said there were problems with having just one company dominating the industry, and it was expensive to use…