Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you know, I never understand these articles where the premise is that the trend is toward Market Outcome A and then all that gets listed is examples that break away from that supposed trend to underline some argument that things don't have to be the way A dictates they are. Well, you didn't prove A in the first place. You asserted it. Comics publishers have been trying every single market out there that they can reach for years and years now, and two of the three markets mentioned as some sort of revelation bucking the made-up trend have been plumbed since at least the late 1980s. It's a faulty premise and an issue only cursorily explored: just a bad article.

* this page on Microcosm's site about a BFF collection that I didn't know about and is either a) brand new or b) a sign that I'm totally out of touch indicates that the Bloomington-based company is opening a storefront in Portland. Anyone know anything about this?

* the writer and retailer Chris Butcher notes a disappearing Akira volume and its potential as support for a Kodansha to publish some work itself rumor.

* well, of course he's a cartoonist.

* I can't really buy reading digital comics as a substitute for the print comics buying experience until people testify that this is a substitution they're actually making, but it's probably worth noting that if gas prices do keep people from going to comics shops -- and I think this likely because of the thinning of area-to-area coverage that came in the 1990s when the mainstream comics companies decided that they needed to close a lot of small comics shops -- they won't keep people from accessing the comics they get on-line.

* finally, Shogakukan and Shueisha announce that they're deepening their relationship, with an eye towards smoother licensing efforts and, it looks like, digital publishing.
 
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