Die, pamphlets, die!
Devin Faraci, one of the main editors at the movie site C.H.U.D., has a mild-mannered editorial which brings together all the doomsday scenario ideas floating around -- how comics going to $4 will destroy...
NYCC ’09: In this post, I will reveal the FUTURE OF COMICS!
New York Comic-Con 2009 is nothing but a lingering sore throat now, but all the forces and dramas that clashed and mingled continue to ricochet around the industry. Coming, as it did, at the...
Book news: BEA changes; Harper reorg
With the New York Comic-Con seemingly successfully behind them, Reed Exhibitions has announced major changes to the BEA, the annual book trade fair. The show will stay in New York until 2012, and...
Some links about the Diamond thing
§ Prominent comics blogger Tom Spurgeon has a longish post on why Diamond's new policy isn't such a hot idea -- we haven't had time to read it, but a quick scan suggests...
ICV2 conference coverage
As we remarked to more than a few people at the show -- everyone seems to be so busy Twittering a running tally of the show, no one goes home and writes about it...
Graphic novels sales up in ’08
ICv2 has a condensed version of the white paper presented at yesterday's conference, and graphic novels sales were UP in '08, from $375 million in 2007 to $395 million in 2008. Sales rose four...
More Diamond thoughts
§ Chris Butcher finally weighs in with his thoughts on the Diamond changes and it seems we've reached the end of an era:
I have always argued this, and while my arguments haven’t fallen...
More on Diamond and the future
There's been a lot going on since Diamond's new benchmark bombshell, with several alternative distribution sources cropping up, notably Ka-Blam and their Print-on-Demand ComicsMonkey. However, a much lower discount than retailers are used to...
Recession Watch: Alt-Weekly cartoons
§ Cartoonist Matt Bors sits down with Kevin Allman, editor of The Gambit, an independent alt-weekly out of New Orleans, to talk about the recent weekly comic holocaust. The result is sobering but...
Magazine distribution wars continue
Time Inc. has taken a hard line with two magazine distributors who are asking for an additional seven cents an issue to distribute magazines: Time said "No dice" to the price increase, and they're...
CRICKETS ceases
Sammy Harkham says that CRICKETS, his comics series from D&Q will end its current format; Diamond's new policies is once again the reason.
Wanted to just let those favorite few of you out...
Reactions to last week’s doom stories: Diamond, MAD
§ Cartoonist MK Reed shakes her fist at doom with a resource-filled post that includes alternative distributors and other places where you can sell comics besides Diamond. Recommended.
§ Speaking of other channels, ...
