The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

I imagine many of you will have Dirk Deppey’s !Journalista! blog as one of the must read daily blogs (Tom Spurgeon’s Comic Reporter would be another, and hopefully the FPI blog!), so I imagine Dirk Deppey interviewed by Tucker Stone at Comixology will be of interest.

Especially when it’s full of the sort of snark mixed with a general common sense approach to comics that we’ve come to expect from him:

“Take a look at bookstores: YA series like Harry Potter and Twilight might be serious blockbusters … but bookstores don’t devote their entire sales strategy towards teenage fantasy novels. A good chunk of sales come from new books and perennial sellers in a wide range of genres and interest topics, which is why a wide range of consumers still shop in such places.

The Direct Market doesn’t have this advantage. Thanks to the various sales and distribution fiascos of the 1990s, comics shops have pretty much been reduced to hardcore superhero fans and a smaller collection of art-comics readers for their bread-and-butter, which effectively cuts off the oxygen for publishers of most other kinds of books. And “most other kinds of books” is what most other people in North America tend to read. “

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