September 17, 2005
CR Week In Review
Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, September 10 to September 16, 2005:
1. A presumed roll-out of new sales terms and policies from Diamond Comic Distributors
becomes widely known without, oddly, an official press statement or even, really, confirmation (perhaps it's all a dream). The policies as cobbled together by interested parties are believed to have the most significant impact on small press comics.
2. Viz Media
finds partner for formal expansion into Europe.
3.
Publishers Weekly to
launch free weekly newsletter covering comics, graphic novels and manga; Calvin Reid as editor.
Winner of the Week
Blank Label and those participating in their
webcomics telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims, an effort that went up quickly and smoothly.
Losers of the Week
If those conjectured Diamond sales terms develop as many expect, then comic shops that rely on pre-orders of certain items will have to take a hard look at whether they want to bother doing pre-orders on books that may be cancelled after being listed.
Quote of the Week
"Super heroes remain as super as ever, but much that was heroic has been leached from their character in the false name of art and complexity." -- Prominent retailer Buddy Saunders in the midst of a debate on the business site ICv2.com about the idea that the overly gritty and grim superhero comics out right now have, ultimately, limited sales appeal.
French edition of Nausicaa underlines the opportunities of the European markets and Viz Media's new effort to pursue them -- a huge, established appetite for manga combined with a number of existing publishing deals.
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