Go, Read: Kiel Phegley Interviews Ross Richie, Jack Cummins

I thought this was a pretty good effort from Kiel Phegley to sort out some of the basic issues involved in the just-announced deal that Archaia was to become an imprint of BOOM! Phegley focuses on the nature of the contracts offered by each company and any philosophical divide their differences portend; he is assured that these are marginal differences, but it's good to have that line of questioning out there. He also gets at a key nuts-and-bolts question: the Archaia offices will move into the BOOM! workspace.

I also thought interesting that Ross Richie puts forward a positive defense of publisher participation in IP aspects of comics properties -- he basically argues that full participation is an incentive for the publishing part of that relationship just as it is for the creator part of that relationship. That is actually a fairly fascinating set of principles there, and I think one that we have kind of a goofed-up way of talking about in the comics industry sometimes. I am generally in favor of really hard, stringent standards being applied rather than any hard, fast rules about one contract set-up over another. Whether or not a company that actively pursues deals and takes a larger percentage is potentially more exploitative than a company that leaves all of that up to the creator and their people but still takes a percentage, perhaps a smaller one, is a question that goes back, I don't know, something like 80 years in the industry. It isn't easy to resolve, but talking about it is a good thing.
 
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