Go, Read: Brian Hibbs On The Serial Comics Mini-Series Format

The retailer and Direct Market advocate Brian Hibbs has a short piece up on the mini-series format, by which I think he means a short run of comic book issues with a limited publishing scope, something that is only supposed to run four issues, say.

It's a nice, compressed look at the different issues those retailers balance when presenting work to the public, and the way the North American comic shop market is beginning to resemble the French-language bookstore market a bit in one sense: that it's brutal for specific concepts to stand out because of the sheer volume of material out there. This is doubly, even triply true of concepts that are more tossed off than considered and planned. I think what he's saying along those lines supports a theory I float here as a kind of general, driving market force: that readers right now want to be directed to the books that matter, and there may be relatively very little consumer exploration underneath the bigger umbrella of sales. At any rate, it's worth a quick if you're interested in those kinds of issues at all.
 
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