Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 22:37:51 GMT -5
Warren Ellis has been using the phrase Republic of Newsletters to encapsulate the trend of creative types (writers & artists in comics and other media) moving away from streaming social media as a means of disseminating ideas and info to their fans/followers/readers and moving (back) towards e-mail newsletters as the means to do so for a variety of reasons (having a unique platform to yourself without the clutter of social media being a big one and the avoidance of comment sections that have more trolls than the underside of bridges destroying any kind of rationale discussion and overwhelming the message and information you are trying to disseminate being an unspoken second.
I was wondering how many of the folks here subscribe to newsletters from creators and which ones they do. I subscribe to a number of them, and look forward to reading most of them, even if I don't currently read books by those creators as they often offer insight into the creative process or other aspects I find just as entertaining as the comics/books they produce themselves do.
It started for me with the aforementioned Warren Ellis's newsletter Orbital Operationsand his sporadic postings on his blog Morning Computer. As much as I enjoy Ellis as a comic writer and novelist, I like him as a columnist more and Come in Alone still stands as one of my favorite comic centered columns of all time.
The most recent I subscribed to was Greg Pak
Other newsletters I subscribe to include
Ben Templesmith (sporadic/rare possibly discontinued)
Dirk Manning monthly
Kieron Gillen weekly
Joe Hill usually weekly, but skips weeks
Milkfed Criminals i.e. Matt Fraction & Kelly Sue DeConnick, sporadic
Ed Brubaker semi-monthly
White Noise Studios i.e. Dan Watters, Alex Paknadel, Ram V, Ryan O'Sullivan, bi-monthly
Ganzeer's Restricted Frequency on hiatus until spring of 2018
and I am always keeping an eye out for other interesting ones, so if you know of any or subscribe to any, please share.
I actually like these newsletters better than trying to follow creators on social media or visiting archaic websites or blogging sites, as they come to me, are dedicated to a single theme, and I can archive them for future reference in a way that is easy to find. I get info on upcoming projects and often previews, insights into the creative process, recommendations for comics, books, games, movies, etc. on a regular basis without the attendant echo chamber of social media diluting and drowning out the things that interest me. I do still follow a few creators on social media, but only because they haven't joined the Republic of Newsletters so to speak.
I also get newsletters for other things (such as the Mego Museum which offers a round up of what is going on on their forums, all the related social media sites plus press releases from Mego-related toy companies etc. but I am more interested in those from people involved in the creative process of storytelling.
-M
I was wondering how many of the folks here subscribe to newsletters from creators and which ones they do. I subscribe to a number of them, and look forward to reading most of them, even if I don't currently read books by those creators as they often offer insight into the creative process or other aspects I find just as entertaining as the comics/books they produce themselves do.
It started for me with the aforementioned Warren Ellis's newsletter Orbital Operationsand his sporadic postings on his blog Morning Computer. As much as I enjoy Ellis as a comic writer and novelist, I like him as a columnist more and Come in Alone still stands as one of my favorite comic centered columns of all time.
The most recent I subscribed to was Greg Pak
Other newsletters I subscribe to include
Ben Templesmith (sporadic/rare possibly discontinued)
Dirk Manning monthly
Kieron Gillen weekly
Joe Hill usually weekly, but skips weeks
Milkfed Criminals i.e. Matt Fraction & Kelly Sue DeConnick, sporadic
Ed Brubaker semi-monthly
White Noise Studios i.e. Dan Watters, Alex Paknadel, Ram V, Ryan O'Sullivan, bi-monthly
Ganzeer's Restricted Frequency on hiatus until spring of 2018
and I am always keeping an eye out for other interesting ones, so if you know of any or subscribe to any, please share.
I actually like these newsletters better than trying to follow creators on social media or visiting archaic websites or blogging sites, as they come to me, are dedicated to a single theme, and I can archive them for future reference in a way that is easy to find. I get info on upcoming projects and often previews, insights into the creative process, recommendations for comics, books, games, movies, etc. on a regular basis without the attendant echo chamber of social media diluting and drowning out the things that interest me. I do still follow a few creators on social media, but only because they haven't joined the Republic of Newsletters so to speak.
I also get newsletters for other things (such as the Mego Museum which offers a round up of what is going on on their forums, all the related social media sites plus press releases from Mego-related toy companies etc. but I am more interested in those from people involved in the creative process of storytelling.
-M
