And librarians are realizing they're not just for kids.
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
DavidS - Dec 12, 2006 6:02:59 pm PST #9938 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kalshane - Dec 12, 2006 6:09:23 pm PST #9939 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I would imagine a lot of folks who would be inclined to produce indie comics are moving towards making webcomics instead just because it's easier to put up a webpage and try to get people to link to it than it is to print something up and try to 1) get stores to carry it 2) get folks to buy it. I'm sure it's not the only reason for the decline in numbers, but it certainly helps.
DavidS - Dec 12, 2006 6:13:19 pm PST #9940 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would imagine a lot of folks who would be inclined to produce indie comics are moving towards making webcomics instead just because it's easier to put up a webpage and try to get people to link to it than it is to print something up and try to 1) get stores to carry it 2) get folks to buy it. I'm sure it's not the only reason for the decline in numbers, but it certainly helps.
The big lesson I learned in comics/publishing when I was in it was simply that distribution was the great bottleneck. The internet circumvents that. If you can build up an online following, get some ad revenue and then publish book-store carriable collections then you might be able to make a run at it.
I don't know. Bone might be the last really successful paper-first indie comic.
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2006 6:17:33 pm PST #9941 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Also, comics are becoming huge in libraries. And librarians are realizing they're not just for kids.
Heh. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm one of the top comics-checker-outers in my library. Whenever they get a new TPB in that I've been wanting to read, I always thank them.
Just call me Teppy, GirlGeek.
amych - Dec 12, 2006 6:25:58 pm PST #9942 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2006 1:42:01 am PST #9943 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
It's strange, though, that Girl Genius is the only comic that I'm aware of that started out as hard copy, and then moved online. It isn't really that indie comics are moving online, they're getting displaced by them.
Another thing I'm noticing is that the indie comic aesthetic is having a huge influence on contemporary art. Maybe it's easier to sell prints online than comic books.
Oh, and indie animation is the new indie comic.
Strega - Dec 13, 2006 6:12:36 am PST #9944 of 10000
It's strange, though, that Girl Genius is the only comic that I'm aware of that started out as hard copy, and then moved online.
A Softer World was in zines before it was online. I'm 90% sure there's another fairly well-known comic that stopped hard copy production and moved online recently but I don't have time to dig around right now.
P.M. Marc - Dec 13, 2006 8:43:20 am PST #9945 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think the web comic that's up on girl-wonder.org was print before it was online, and stopped doing print a few months back.
(Which reminds me, I need to write my stupid column, now that I have some free time.)
CaBil - Dec 14, 2006 4:11:28 am PST #9946 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Well, the great series Finder made the jump from print to online, with the plan for the yearly collections to be released at SDCC. The Finder GNs were what was making money for the creator anyways, not the floppies.
David, there has been some interesting long tail analysis of comic sales, and the basic result was that basically everything after the top 40 or so titles are drastically underordered. Hell, most months Image doesn't even have a title in the top 50...
Strega - Dec 14, 2006 5:08:35 am PST #9947 of 10000
Finder! Yes, that was what I was thinking of, thank you!