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Skwirl posted:Don't retailers have to pay some small amount for Free Comic Book Day books? That's probably close to cost for printing. The cost of FCBD stuff is generally eaten by the publisher and retailers. Those range from 10 to 45 cents if memory serves.
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I'm not sure if a 99 cent digital price point is viable, but I am sure that giant megacorps Warner Bros and Disney should make it viable. Call it a loss leader if you need to, kill Marvel Unlimited as stone dead as DC Universe, add access to the digital comics catalog as a perk to HBO Max/Disney+, and just draw your revenue from the subscriptions.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:09
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Skwirl posted:How much does it cost Marvel to print a 24 page comic and ship it to a retailer? Does anyone have a close estimate? Does Marvel do it's printing in house, or do they contract it out to another company?
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Gripweed posted:Does Marvel do it's printing in house, or do they contract it out to another company? A group called Quad/Graphics, if I remember right. It used to be really hard to find out who printed what, and maybe still is.
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Dawgstar posted:A group called Quad/Graphics, if I remember right. It used to be really hard to find out who printed what, and maybe still is. Used to be inside most single issues.
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Sorry, off topic to the current discussion but important https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eumtx4wqRY Ultraman and Ultraseven are gonna fight.
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Rhyno posted:Used to be inside most single issues. My copy of X-Men/Fantastic Four #4 says "Manufactured between 6/26/2020 and 7/06/2020 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA" in the tiny, tiny print where they list all the publisher details.
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Dawgstar posted:A group called Quad/Graphics, if I remember right. It used to be really hard to find out who printed what, and maybe still is. I am not a business person, but I assume that makes floppies a bit safer. Since some Disney some Disney bean counter isn't looking at the expenses of maintaining a whole print shop for such a niche product.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:37
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Rhyno posted:Used to be inside most single issues. Yeah, I misspoke. You knew with Marvel (and DC), but it was kept hush-hush for other companies mostly because no comics company wanted their printer snaked out from under them. Here's an interesting (if old) article on it.
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Before you just say well comics are x right now so if they go digital it could be a even less, you should price in the fact that they should be paying everyone like double what they are getting and then figure out a cost
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Skwirl posted:My copy of X-Men/Fantastic Four #4 says "Manufactured between 6/26/2020 and 7/06/2020 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA" in the tiny, tiny print where they list all the publisher details. I grew up near Mechanicsburg, weird seeing it in this context.
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site posted:Before you just say well comics are x right now so if they go digital it could be a even less, you should price in the fact that they should be paying everyone like double what they are getting and then figure out a cost They could double wages while keeping costs the same simply by having the artists also write the comics.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:49
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Todd McFarlane log off
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Gripweed posted:They could double wages while keeping costs the same simply by having the artists also write the comics. hell yes only writer / artists allowed everyone else  also black and white only and NO EDITORS
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Jordan7hm posted:hell yes Would loving love to only read three issues of Spider-Man a year.
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Jordan7hm posted:hell yes If anything we need more and better editors, at least for Big Two superhero comics
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Ok fine I'll write and draw them all myself. I'll get them edited in the mod forum.
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How bad are rates for an average writer / artist? I feel I don't have a great understanding of the economics of the creative talent.
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How Wonderful! posted:Ok fine I'll write and draw them all myself. I'll get them edited in the mod forum. I own an original copy of Mark Gruenwald's "A Treatise on Reality in Comic Literature" so I hope you're prepared.
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How Wonderful! posted:I'll get them edited in the mod forum. At least we know they'll be poo poo ahead of time
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A Strange Aeon posted:How bad are rates for an average writer / artist? I feel I don't have a great understanding of the economics of the creative talent. Terrible. As a career plan you work at the big two long enough that your name will sell indie books that get you movie and/or tv deals that never actually happen, but still get you money, and then you continue to work at big two because you wanted to write or draw a character or team. Writers can always try and get jobs for tv shows or whatever that are actually in production as a fall back and artists have porn/furry commissions.
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Gripweed posted:Sorry, off topic to the current discussion but important So, basically Boom MMPR but with Ultraman?
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Skwirl posted:
porn/furry commissions AND jobs as a storyboard artist.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So, basically Boom MMPR but with Ultraman? I don't know enough about Boom MMPR to confirm or deny.
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Was thinking that it's a shame that Green Lantern Mosaic had to be done by such a shithead as that comic would have made a great TV show.
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Apologies if this isn't quite the thread for it, but it seems like the closest fit and I have neither the skill nor the energy to make the sort of OP a proper From Hell thread deserves. Anyway; I finally got around to reading From Hell and I was absolutely blown the gently caress away, although my soul feels like it needs a shower. That said, I was wondering if there's any good write-ups/discussions/threads here or elsewhere that get into it.
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I too love from hell but afaik even though it's well acknowledged here there hasn't been any thread or prolonged discussion about it
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Apologies if this isn't quite the thread for it, but it seems like the closest fit and I have neither the skill nor the energy to make the sort of OP a proper From Hell thread deserves. Do you have the version with all of Alan Moore's notes?
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Yep. They were fantastic. Also the Dance of the Gull Catchers at the end. I thought all the omnibus editions had both appendices?
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How did the coloured version of From Hell turn out?
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I need input from someone else who's been reading early 80's and 90's comics. Is Timothy Truman racist or just has some huuuuuuuuuge blinspots? I very well could be over-reacting but I'm reading Hawkworld and then I checked out his Guns of the Dragons and yikes!
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Vincent posted:I need input from someone else who's been reading early 80's and 90's comics. Is Timothy Truman racist or just has some huuuuuuuuuge blinspots? I very well could be over-reacting but I'm reading Hawkworld and then I checked out his Guns of the Dragons and yikes! I can't speak to any of his older work, but if you were concerned he went full Chuck Dixon MAGA in his dotage, rest easy?
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We're watching Doom Patrol and seeing Willoughby Kipling reminded me--has Constantine ever met Kipling? I feel like some writer would have gotten some comedy out of that.
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A Strange Aeon posted:We're watching Doom Patrol and seeing Willoughby Kipling reminded me--has Constantine ever met Kipling? I feel like some writer would have gotten some comedy out of that. Has Willoughby Kipling ever been in anything besides Doom Patrol? the only "list of appearances" I can find for him is just literally a dozen issues of Doom Patrol https://dcuguide.com/w/Willoughby_Kipling_Chronology I checked Constantine on that site and it looks pretty complete except it stops at Hellblazer 300, no Doom Patrol (which isn't surprising, since not being able to use Constantine is the entire reason Kipling exists)
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Every few weeks, I dip into the upcoming release list on Comixology and pre-order my trades for the next month or so. Did that this morning, and gosh did I miss doing that during the heat of the “pencils down” period. The bummer is that DC doesn’t put their listings up more than a week or two ahead, but at least I’ve got the next Daredevil, Sex Criminals and X-Men trades to look forward to.
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Skwirl posted:Has Willoughby Kipling ever been in anything besides Doom Patrol? the only "list of appearances" I can find for him is just literally a dozen issues of Doom Patrol He's just fundamentally a Constantine rip-off, I figured some writer in the decades since his appearance would have been a little meta and had them meet. They ostensibly exist in the same universe now, right? So they should be aware of each other.
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Willoughby Kipling exists because Grant Morrison was told he couldn't use John Constantine in his Doom Patrol run.quote:Willoughby Kipling was created because, at the time that his story was being written, editorial would not allow Grant Morrison to use John Constantine in his run on Doom Patrol (Volume 2) for fear of spoiling the realism of the character. Rather than base his replacement character on Sting's appearance (like Constantine was), Kipling is meant to look like Richard E. Grant's character Withnail in Withnail and I. Later, Phil Foglio was forced to create Ambrose Bierce when he was refused the use of both John Constantine and Willoughby Kipling.
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https://twitter.com/TanookiKuribo/status/1297302288948748288?s=20
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Anyone have recommendations for places to get comic books in Australia online?
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