A Tale of Two Titles… Two Formats, Too

Two books, two different sales results. Heidi MacDonald notes that Alex Robinson's Tricked has reached the five figure mark, while Fantagraphics Co-Publisher Kim Thompson doesn't mince words about the fate of the anthology Bete Noire (which grew out of another anthology called Blood Orange). You could make a pretty fair observation about the current market from this: it favors graphic novels from known quantities that gather sales traction, and doesn't have as much room for periodical formats, unknowns, and perhaps even is experiencing some oversaturation with anthologies. This may sound like conventional wisdom, but it's still enough of a rare thing for a comic with a certain pricde point to do 10,000 stealthily, or for a comic from a pedigreed publisher to fold that quickly and thoroughly, that commenting on it seems wise.
 
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