Commentary on various aspects of publishing and marketing, primarily focused on books, magazines, and social media.
Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 5/18/05, courtesy of ComicList. Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it.Recommendations, sometimes blind, in BOLD. Which ones are YOU reading?AEON Bugtown #5 (Of 6), $2.95AMAZE INK (SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS) Strange Eggs #1, $3.95ANTARCTIC PRESS Heaven Sent #10 (Of 11), $2.99 Ninja High School #128, $2.99ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Betty & Veronica Spectacular #70, $2.19 Jughead #165, $2.19 Sonic The Hedgehog #149, $2.19 Tales From Riverdale Digest #2, $2.39ATOMIC DINER Freakshow #6, $2.95BONGO COMICS Simpsons…
Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 5/11/05, courtesy of ComicList. (NEW: Recommendations in BOLD.) Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it.What are YOU reading?AC COMICS Americas Greatest Comics #11, $6.95A. D. VISION Tactics Manga Vol 2 TPB, $9.99AIT/PLANETLAR Surviving Grady, $7.95ALIAS ENTERPRISES LLC 10th Muse Vol 1 TPB, $9.99 10th Muse Vol 2 #1, $2.99 10th Muse Vol 2 Photo Cvr Foil Ed #1, $4.99 Deal With The Devil #1 (Of 4), $0.75 Elsinore #1 (Of 9), $0.75 Judo…
Support Independent Comics!Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day and to celebrate, I read EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of the 28 comics that will be available at finer comic book shops around the country, and in other parts of the world! Why would I do such a thing, you ask? So I could write up a comprehensive review of them for Buzzscope, that's why! Check it out here, along with an updated interview with FCBD founder, Joe Field. Good stuff!Comics being released tomorrow, 5/7/05, courtesy of ComicList. To find a participating comics retailer near you, click here.Which ones are you looking forward…
Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 5/4/05, courtesy of ComicList. Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it.What are you reading?AARDVARK-VANAHEIM/WIN-MILL PRO Following Cerebus #3 (AA), $3.95AC COMICS Best Of The West #50, $6.95 Femforce New Millenium Coll Pack, $24.95 Women Of Mystery Pack, $44.95ACTOR Actor DFE Magdalena Preview Book (AA), $3.00 Actor DFE Transformers War Within Vol 3 #1 Foil Ed, $14.99 Actor DFE Witchblade Red Foil Ed #48, $5.00 Actor Identity Crisis #7 Sgn, $29.99 Actor Superman #204…
Most mainstream comic books these days ride a rickety wooden roller coaster throughout their ever-shortening life spans, offering an uneven mix of definitive and forgettable story arcs before inevitably being rebooted by some flavor-of-the-month talent in the kind of short-term thinking that brought down corporations like Enron and Worldcom. Then there are comic books like The Losers, defined by a singular creative vision that, hopefully, is allowed to carry through to its organic conclusion and then able to rest in peace. Typically, though, these types of comics die on the vine, languishing in obscurity as they are ignored by the…
Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 4/27/05, courtesy of ComicList. Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it.What are you reading?AARDVARK-VANAHEIM/WIN-MILL PRO Following Cerebus #1 (AA), $3.95 Following Cerebus #2 (AA), $3.95ABIOGENESIS PRESS Strangehaven #17 (resolicited), $2.95ABSTRACT STUDIOS Strangers In Paradise #73, $2.95ADHESIVE COMICS Too Much Coffee Man Magazine #22, $4.95AIT/PLANETLAR Filler GN, $12.95ALTERNATIVE COMICS Centerfield One Shot, $3.50 Hickee Vol 3 #1, $2.95AMAZE INK (SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS) 15 Minutes #3, $3.95 Skaggy The Lost TPB, $16.95 Slave Labor Peepshow…
A month or so ago, Top Shelf Productions was running a great sale on some of their backlist, with an assortment of graphic novels and comix for $1 and $3. [EDIT: The sale is apparently still on, here.] A mixed bag of titles, the vast majority of which I'd never heard of, I decided to randomly pick several that caught my eye and see whether or not any of them could match the subtle brilliance of Craig Thompson's Blankets, a highly acclaimed Top Shelf publication, which I finally read earlier this year. A rather lofty standard-bearer, for sure, but when…
