May 7, 2005
CR Week In Review
Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, April 30 to May 6, 2005:
1. Newspaper face a grim Monday of
new numbers that reveal general circulation losses, particulary among the big newspapers that anchor the syndicated comic strip businesses. Three major papers that had inflated their numbers in the recent past were left out of the final accounting or the general figures would have been worse.
2. In a time when it seems editors are cautious and readers are hyper-aware,
none of the 1000+ editors taking Johnny Hart's B.C. complains about a Sunday castigating the founders of Evolution theory.
3. Start-up company Alias
fails to ship a single title in April after promising 12; now to load up 9 titles in single May drop date.
Winner of the Week
The legacy of the late Bill Finger, in whose name a juried award for lifetime achievement in comics writing
will begin this summer.
Losers of the Week
Comic shops that bought Alias comics that aren't prepared to handle 9 launch titles on a single day.
Quote of the Week
"Are you sniffing glue? Do you know anything whatsoever about comics, and publishing, and basic marketing 101? There are AGES (and PAGES) of examples of publishers who have tried this kind of idiotic penny-wise, pound-foolish ship-it-all-at-once tactics, and every time EVERY TIME, it cuts into their own sales as you fight for dollars among your own products. -- Retailer Brian Hibbs talking sense in the direction of Alias in a
Fanboy Rampage comments section.
posted 6:36 am PST |
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