Big Fun Comics Opts Out Of Diamond

The fourth issue of Big Fun Comics, a lovely, magazine-sized anthology dedicated to well-drawn newspaper comics of the past is now available. The catch: after moving three issues through Diamond, the latest is only available through the American Comic Archives site directly or from Lulu.com.

"It's probably a story you've heard before," Big Fun's Mark Schwartz told CR. "Relatively low demand, relatively high cost to produce and a steep discount that Diamond demands (around 65+ %) it's not worth my time. Going through a place like lulu.com is a risk and clearly sales will be much lower but so will the cost to produce and distribute the magazine. We'll see what happens, but I don't see going back to Diamond as an option."

Issue #4 containes a complete Captain Easy story from Leslie Turner, a chapter from an extended Scorchy Smith story from Bert Christman, and 11 Lance Sundays from Warren Tufts.
 
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