Newsarama: Alias Goes All-Christian

The comics news site Newsarama has an interesting news brief up this morning about the comics company Alias making the movie from a secular comics company carrying titles with Christian overtones (think Michael Landon) to a company making books for the Christian market with chances for potential crossover (think Kirk Cameron).

Upon its debut in 2005, Alias became perhaps the poster child of an independent comics simply not ready to publish regularly, with a series of embarassing delays on its initial titles despite an ambitious business plan that promised a lot of product. The company restructured late last year and landed a book deal with Christian publisher Zondervan, Newsarama notes.

The interest here is less Alias than what it potentially says about the Christian comics market. Christian-directed works are a healthy bookstore category, but also driven in part by a series of small store owners much more conservative in terms of what they'll carry than even the most stereotypical, Big-Two-locked-in comic book shop. It is also a category that has received a lot of attention by Christian publishers for the last few years, so it should be interesting to see what the upper limit of comics in that market will be. Also, my personal experience is that many Christian businesses are more generously capitalized than secular counterparts of the same size, which could be a huge advantage.
 
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