|
Post by rberman on Jun 28, 2024 8:37:09 GMT -5
Absolutely. It just doesn't work for a book people are putting out monthly if you only get two or three issues before a fill in. Do the fine work for a GN or limited series. Or you know maybe find a publishing model that lets your creators do their best stuff and doesn't foist lesser quality products on your consumers because of an arbitrary deadline. Monthly periodicals with their incumbent deadlines and need for fill ins (or in the past inventory stories and reprints as well) are a vestige of an old market reality that is no longer true, and is only kept around as a vestige of nostalgia. It is an obstacle to growing the audience, an obstacle for creators to produce their best stuff, and a hindrance to the medium evolving and becoming all it can be. It's had its time, but its time is done and the powers that be in comic publishing need to read the writing on the wall and realize that. The future of comics and the growth market for comics lies in other formats and other publishing models. Yup. I haven't bought a monthly comic in almost forty years. That format was designed to be disposable. I do wonder about Italian creators. They put out a 100 page comic every month. How do they do it?
|
|
shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,514
|
Post by shaxper on Jun 29, 2024 8:42:07 GMT -5
Read that title too quickly and thought Conan had gotten more humble... ![](https://i.imgur.com/QMCpwQn.jpeg)
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,712
|
Post by Confessor on Jun 30, 2024 16:11:36 GMT -5
Saw this on Facebook earlier -- "Ditko hands". You really need to see a doctor about that. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/ncKkDD6P/IMG-0746.jpg)
|
|
|
Post by Ricky Jackson on Jul 3, 2024 13:15:07 GMT -5
Finally got around to reading the famed Captain Marvel Monster Society of Evil serial from the 40s. Holy crap is it racist. I know this was the 40s, and I knew racism was the reason that DC canceled a reprint volume years ago, but still...holy crap is it racist
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Jul 3, 2024 14:54:26 GMT -5
Finally got around to reading the famed Captain Marvel Monster Society of Evil serial from the 40s. Holy crap is it racist. I know this was the 40s, and I knew racism was the reason that DC canceled a reprint volume years ago, but still...holy crap is it racist Read The Young Allies sometime. Really, if you look at a wide range of comic books and newspaper strips of the 30s and 40s, and even into the 50s and 60s, you will find plenty to offend.
|
|
|
Post by Ricky Jackson on Jul 3, 2024 16:28:46 GMT -5
Well, of course. I'm no stranger to the old strips and comics. I was mostly stunned by Captain Marvel sounding like Archie Bunker
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Jul 3, 2024 19:01:34 GMT -5
Well, of course. I'm no stranger to the old strips and comics. I was mostly stunned by Captain Marvel sounding like Archie Bunker Now I really want to read it …
|
|