Go, Read: Dirk Deppey on Digital Comics

Dirk Deppey does me the honor of responding at length to a few remarks I made yesterday regarding on-line comics vis-a-vis certain recalibrations I'd recommend for the serial comics market. As is usual with this kind of thing, most of my objections to what he argues are to rhetorical constructions that I don't think fairly or completely represent what I've said. I was never recommending that comics pursue affordable downloads as a way to combat piracy, for instance, nor was I arguing that comics downloads couldn't become a sampler market as much as I was stating that it's not a desirable, exact replacement for the kind of sampler market comics used to have in singles. There's a big difference there. Also, I don't see my general recommendation that comics vigorously pursue multiple tracks to market as a platitude because I feel comics history is in part defined by the abandonment of practices that we know work for something that might potentially work better -- not because economic forces dictated that should happen but because the response to those market opportunities was short-sighted and limited. Still, I don't want to get into a characterization argument point by point by point, because I think you'll miss the meat of Deppey's interesting perspective. Just keep in mind that I don't always agree with the picture being painted on my behalf, will you?
 
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