Finder Serial To Go On-Line



According to Heidi MacDonald, Carla Speed McNeil announced at this weekend's SPX that issue #38 of her long-running Finder would be the last in serial comic book publication, and that she would be shifting to an on-line followed by print trades model. As noted in the recent Diamond Small Press "notice of potential purging" story, Finder sold better as a serial than people thought it did, but still sold modestly and was treated by the cartoonist as a loss-leader driving people to the trades.

While McNeil is certainly not the first person to take material on-line that would have in the past bee serialized in comic book form, she's the first in a while, Finder is maybe the most mature title in terms of issues published and entrenched audience to go this route, and the move has potential symbolic importance as this is the kind of title the Direct Market broke semi-routinely in the 1980s and hasn't in 11 years.
 
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