Comics Writings From the Weekend-Plus

* Brian Hibbs talks about installing a POS system in his store. It's a good thing that retailers are going to these systems -- it's a sign of progress, and it should eventually yield interesting in-store and between-store sales numbers. I know people hate on comics retailers all the time, but there's a part of me that I know is going to miss the raggedy-ass aspects of the first three decades of Direct Market retail, a system for the delivery of an entire art form manned to a significant percentage by the merchant equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys.

* Salon runs a small excerpt from Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics. Eddie Campbell is first to comment. I like and respect Douglas, and I realize it's always dicey when you look at the result of gigs you couldn't get if you had a magic lamp, but that excerpt raised so many flags for me the inside of my eyelids looks like Red Square circa 1985. In two pages of 400-plus (!) there are at least three assertions for industry terms that either don't exist on a widespread basis or don't always mean what Doug asserts they mean, a dissection of comics labeling as if it were super-important when that kind of thing really only matters to writers about comics like Doug, and potentially the dimmest reading of Robert Crumb ever. I greatly look forward to reading the entire thing.

* Somebody tell me: why don't the big companies avoid delays on short runs and limited series by getting the whole thing in-house first? I know why the small companies don't: cash flow and a history of getting stuff out for their artists immediately.
 
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