Comics Christmas Shopping Update



One of the reasons I like to cover the Christmas retail season is that even having a holiday-period comics retail shopping season is a sign of the growing importance of the bookstore market and the markets for various ancillary products. That's a huge change, one that ripples out into what's released and why and when. While I don't think it's totally captured the comics publishing world's focus -- no one, for instance, would think a comics publisher to be insane for releasing a big book in January the way they would think poorly of a studio's business acumen if a Harry Potter movie opened then -- I think there are more moves to recognize that potential audience October 15 to December 15 now than ever before.

Anyway:

* Click here for the CR Holiday Shopping Guide, complete with newly updated Thing Mug photo, as seen above. I hope its gives you an idea of what's out there and how you can orient yourself to making comics purchases part of your Christmas-shopping artillery, if you're so inclined.

* Three publishers that I know of have announced holiday sales that are currently taking place: NBM, Top Shelf, and La Mano. La Mano to a great extent and NBM as a kind of a throw-away line have both indicated they could really use your consumerist attention.

* Several people wrote in to suggest dismay that I somehow failed get their very excellent comics-related item on the list, or just to suggest I might want to add their own project. I made no claims for comprehensiveness or authority when it came to putting various items in the spotlight; I'm sure there's another 200 things that could have been selected. However, I don't want anyone to go away mad if I can help it, so here are a few specifically named by those readers.


The Artist Within, Greg Preston, Dark Horse Comics, 2006


Godland Celestial Edition, Joe Casey and Tom Scioli, Mini-Essay by Me, Image Comics, 2007


End Times/Tiempos Finales Vol. 1, Sam Hiti, Self-Published, 2006
 
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