Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the numbers guru and industry analyst John Jackson Miller notes that the effects of readership migration on-line are mitigated in part by the fact that the suppliers have a chance to control some of that migration. In other words, losing 10 percent of your readership to bootlegs isn't the same as losing 10 percent of your readership to a program you've cobbled together with Amazon.com's Kindle reader.

* missed it: the New York Times censors a cartoon. It seems to me like something that was done in the editorial process, because otherwise it's hard to believe that someone would buy a cartoon with the idea of changing it like was done with this one. Additionally, something seems odd and not quite right about this story.

* not comics: this is intensely stupid. Not everything is snark and it won't go away just because you fume and stamp your feet.

* this is the most forthright discussion I've seen yet from one of the major mainstream comics heavies on the subject of comics pricing. It's not very convincing. Pricing strategies are pricing strategies, not declarations of the creators' value. Joe Quesada hints that the money will be shared rather than simply going into Marvel's pockets. I guess that would be true of the people that get paid according to percentage, but if there really ends up being more money going to creators out of this, I hope someone will let me know as that happens. I'm skeptical that a steep increase is little more than a money grab, and that its success will depend on the hardcore fan continuing to buy the same number of comics and/or the companies that do it being able to hide any bleed on sales that results. Why companies insist on putting pressure on the system during a time of economic hardship is anyone's guess, but the hardcore fan is one sturdy customer, that's for sure.

* after-hours at WonderCon.

* finally, is it my imagination, or is this a pathetic list and not just for the stunt part at the end?
 
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