The Putting Things Together Files

* Sammy Harkham's sweeping post about journalists at the Family store web site seems slightly mysterious until you read publisher Alvin Buenaventura's floor-cuffing of some random Internet pest that goes into detail about how Harkham was apparently misquoted and misrepresented in this City Pages article. I thought the profile was flattering, and should do no harm, but that's not a standard that excuses making stuff up.

* Dirk Deppey caught this article at Publishers Weekly that Amazon.com experienced huge gains last year. You can rightly (I think) assume that this relates to comics sales at well, but you're going to be buttressed in that belief if you recall an eye-popping statement made by Kuo-Yu Liang, VP of Sales and Marketing at Diamond Books, during the annual survey of opinions about news done by Heidi MacDonald. Under "Biggest stories in 2007," Liang writes: "Amazon becoming the #1 retailer." Liang's statement is important because of his status -- who knows the biggest retailer more than someone who sells that entity a lot of that stuff? -- and it read to me (at the time at least) as much more confident than the usual stab in the dark because it seemed like trend analysis, with the VP being rather specific about where that trend ends up.

* This is a fine, measured mini-essay of the on-line variety I haven't seen anyone mention yet about comics' current historical moment and the pervading stink of sexism that lingers in a far more obvious and open way than anyone should want. It would probably be too easy to link Chris Conroy's post to a display of said sexism, but its implication of a segmented marketplace made me think of this post by Heidi MacDonald at writer Warren Ellis' The Engine that mentions New York's shop Forbidden Planet has physically separated two portions of the store in a way that reflects some of this division -- not 100 percent of course -- in the audience.
 
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