Archive for June, 2008
[Resource of the Day] - Publish or Perish, or Publish AND Perish?
Monday, June 30th, 2008Today’s article: Publish And / Or Perish
by: Brian Hibbs
via: CBR’s Tilting At Windmills column
I read Brian Hibbs’s column fairly regularly; it’s a good resource if you’d like to know more about the innerworkings of the comic book direct market. This recent column talks about TOKYOPOP’s decline as of late. TOKYOPOP has been the darling of [...]
[Resource of the Day] - Five Things the Comic Book Industry Is Doing Right (?)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Today’s article: Comicscape: 5 Successes In Mainstream Comics
by: Kurt Amacker
via: Mania.com
A little while back, I posted a commentary on an article about the 5 things wrong with today’s comic book industry. That article promised a followup about 5 things the industry was doing right, so I thought it’d be only fair to go through them.
This [...]
[Comic Book Publishing] - How Comic Books Came to Be What They Are Today (and How It Affects A Publisher)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Thinking about publishing comic books? You might want to think again after you read this article. Comic books have a long and interesting history, and the format we read today is a result of many different choices that were made along the road.
Believe it or not, the format we use for comics today happened as [...]
How to Deal With Being Told That You Suck
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Try your hand at anything in life, and chances are good that, before long, you’ll be told that you suck.
And most of the time, it’ll be true.
But there’s nothing wrong with sucking. Society has conditioned us to believe that we must be good at everything we do, or else we shouldn’t bother. We watch movies [...]
Army Ant Publishing Update - June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008I rebooted my website almost a year ago to talk about publishing, and all the while, I’ve been promising that I’m applying what I’m writing here to my own business: a company I’ve referred to simply as “Army Ant Publishing.”
But why, you might wonder, has news about this company been so slow to come out?
First [...]
The Price I’ve Paid For Being Poor
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008In the winter of 2006, I made a bold decision: I quit a fairly good job and decided to return to college to finish my undergraduate degree.
One of the hardest things about this decision was that my wife and I would effectively cut our income in half so that I could be a full-time student; [...]