On The Shelves: 12/13/06
Reading is fundamental. Don’t waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly, semi-informed look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 12/13/06 follows. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure
ComicSpace
It’s like “MySpace for comics”, which is a rather scary thought when you think about it… Warren Ellis promoted it via Bad Signal about a half hour ago and quite possibly crashed the site, so it may take a few minutes to get in. I got in right before the rush: http://www.comicspace.com/glecharles/ NOTE: In a
Download Comics Legally
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some advertising somewhere for Wowio recently, but had no idea what it was until I saw it mentioned in this Newsarama article about Devil’s Due publisher Josh Blaylock’s latest project, Pullbox Online: NRAMA: What effect do you think this will have, a) on your print titles, and b) on your
My New Reality
It’s been 2.5 months now since I made the transition from marketing to sales, and so far, despite the exponentially increased workload and almost total lack of free time, I’m still pleased with the decision. It was admittedly a bit nerve-wracking to leave behind 13+ years of experience on one side of the fence to
Help Wanted: Comics Promoters?
Comics Should Be Good offered an essay yesterday by the extremely likeable comics creator Jimmie Robinson that, in his own typically rambling style, makes a good point but lays the “blame” at the wrong doorstop: If you’re reading this, that alone makes you exceptional, makes you care about the medium of comics. You might even
On The Shelves: 11/29/06
Reading is fundamental. Don’t waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly, semi-informed look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 11/29/06 follows. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure
AdWatch: Platinum Studios’ "Babes"
“You may not be able to get into her pants…but you can have her in yours. Platinum Studios Mobile” It’s in Flash format, so I can’t figure out how to save it and display it here, but I came across it on the main page over at The Pulse (of all places) and you can
Belated Halloween Happiness
Bumperboy is one the reasons I could never give up comics completely! Debbie Huey rocks.
Call me muy lame-o!
So, I’m in Boston with a free night, an expense account and my first appointment tomorrow not until 10am and a mere three blocks away from my hotel and I… 1) Walked 5 blocks over to Faneuil Hall and had dinner at a divey Mexican restaurant I could afford on my own; 2) Rushed back
COMMENT: Civil War, Indies and Marketing 101
The interesting discussion over on The Engine about the potential opportunity Marvel’s Civil War flub has opened up for indies misses a key point: your average Civil War reader doesn’t care about non-Marvel titles, and condescendingly referring to those titles as “spandex super fights” or “Muscular Mutant Man Monthly” suggests they’re not your audience anyway,