This Is Money site reports that Scottish publishing and comics giant DC Thomson has accused the BBC of competing unfairly with independent companies, specifically a BBC magazine about animals, aimed at younger readers, had, according to chief executive Andrew Thomson, taken a chunk out of sales for DCT’s own Animals And You publication. Some may [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Robot 6 (via Publisher’s Weekly) notes that indy comics publisher Boom! Studios is to launch a new imprint, Boom! Town, with “which they plan to publish and market “literary comics,” selective reissues of out-of-print works and merchandising.” Well known industry figures Denis Kitchen and Shannon Wheeler are also involved – a set of Robert Crumb [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 4, 2010
Drawn (via John Freeman’s Twitter) has this interesting video from publisher Bonnier on possible forms of E-readers and their implications for comics and art books: Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Rod McKie ponders the investment in time and emotion (and possible financial repercussions) of the cartoonist creating something they like themselves but which doesn’t work for publishers or readers and how a canny cartoonist can sometimes rework it to suit when its a single cartoon but how much more difficult it is if they have [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
You might remember a few weeks back Eagle award winning creator Tom Humberstone posted up some advice on how to go about selling your small press comics (see here). Now Tom’s followed it up with an article on printing your own comics: “You know that famous illustration that appeared in a punk fanzine (Sideburns I [...]
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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