Food for thought: Anybody who’s worked on the alt side of comics knows the list of comics retailers who consistently support indy published comics beyond Diamond’s list of preferred publishers — DC, Dark Horse, Image, Marvel, Wizard — is woefully small, maybe not even 20 percent.

I’ve seen enough cases that prove even when known creators do it all “right” as Sim suggests, they can still have orders under 1,000, and those come from a fraction of those 3,100 retailers.

In many cases, you’d think a retailer should be able to sell one comic about nearly anything with some effort. And 9 times out of 10 you’d be dead wrong…

I’ve seen both sides of this, and it ain’t pretty…

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