October 30, 2014
Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital
By Tom Spurgeon
* this is genuinely fascinating to me: Kelly Sue DeConnick
asks for life updates from Warren Ellis Forum members. That was an influential hub of early -- or earlier, depending on how you personally measure these things -- comics-related, Internet-based activism and socializing. That place was super-helpful to me -- I mostly lurked -- in trying to understand a group of people with very different interests than the hardcore alt-comics community in which I found myself, but that were smart and passionated about how they saw things.
*
this also caught my attention in a big way: a
ComicsAlliance story profiling a Caleb Goellner-edited digital comics anthology featuring talent like Ulises Farinas, Ming Doyle and Meredith Gran. That one debuts in January, and will be free when it does so.
*
here's Medium's Halloween mixtape.
* I spent about 15 minutes looking at
the best-sellers list on comiXology, and... well, I've got nothing. Any attempts on my part to
explain digital consumption habits runs into two to three major obstacles and like 50 minor ones. I know plenty of people that buy comics through that service and download comics more generally, but I'm not sure I know anyone that does a lot of new-comics purchasing in a manner that would resemble the chart in an even same-ballpark sense. It's an interesting list, though;
Saga's hit status all by itself, across multiple formats, suggests a lot of potentially intriguing things about the nature of the current market. If I just look at the titles as a group without knowing anything about who buys this way the one that stands out for me as a surprise is
Southern Bastards #5.
* finally, Gary Tyrell
caught a report from Dean Trippe as to why aspects of his crowd-funded
Something Terrible book project has been delayed. We wish Trippe the best in getting back to it.
posted 5:25 pm PST |
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