O’Brien at Ninth Art: Re-Launches Rarely Work, Barely Matter

Here's advice shared by educators, television show writers and strip cartoonists: If you have new information to share, you generally have to say it several times before it sinks in. That's why I'm fond of today's article on mainstream comic book series re-launches (starting a series over with roughly the same title and a new #1 issue) at Ninth Art by Paul O'Brien. It not only pokes hole in the idea that something can be put away and brought back in today's market, O'Brien's piece underlines the increasing futility of goosing mainstream comic sales in general. The numbers involved today can be pretty shocking, particularly on the lower end, and should inform every discussion of mainstream American comic books; O'Brien, I think, realizes this, and rants accordingly.

Chris Ekman's piece on newspaper strips and politics is a bit less focused, but contains similar hard truths about the decline in that facet of the medium.
 
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