The Creator As Retailer
Great article by markandrewsmith:
We stand on the brink of a new Golden Age for comic books. Never before has there been such a diverse range of material and stories to choose from.
There is truly a comic book for every reader under the sun. In the next few years creator owned comics are going to spill into the mainstream of…
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Got some spare time? Make a comic!
Download the sample printable comic right here!
Reasons for doing this?
1: My followers can finally have a printed comic by me.
2: It seemed like a fun activity to do, specially with young kids.
3: It might be cool if interweb folks shared tiny little mini comics with each other. And a whole bunch of people can print each other’s comics and maybe we could collect ones by other artists. So… ya know. Why not?
ahhh cute
Yesss…
Now go makes some comics!
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The superhero is Western culture’s last-gasp attempt to say there’s a future for us.
Source: playboy.com
American comics are distributed almost exclusively by one company, Diamond, which—whether you like Diamond or not—is, in a free market system, madness.
Source: markwaid.com
Self-taught photographer AganHarahap takes a crack at putting superheroes in history with some simple photo-manipulations. Fun stuff! This and more on his Deviant Art page.
Source: toyib.deviantart.com
Designer Joe Stone put together some pretty cool Family Tree posters for the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four. The tag line is especially nice - Confused? Read More Comics.
Source: joe-stone.co.uk
Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
I never went to a comics shop looking for pals and fellow travelers; I went looking for comics.
Source: comicsreporter.com
Five Ways To Ensure You Don’t Innovate
It’s an interesting time for digital comics. Creators and publishers are pushing the storytelling envelope in new, innovative ways; but the comic book industry is nothing if not traditional. Here are five ways to shut that shit down! - Spread authority around to multiple people with different agendas.
- Make sure anything new only works within the parameters of existing systems.
- Don’t empower the people responsible for the work to make critical decisions.
- Discourage experimentation.
- Punish failure.
Civilians need to be trained in order to embrace serialized fiction the way that comics does it…in fact, they have to be trained to even read comics in the first place, and that’s much harder to do remotely on the internet as opposed to the personalized experience in a quality store.
Source: comicbookresources.com
