|
StumblyWumbly posted:That's interesting, I thought Marvel had been outselling DC for a while, but I guess I haven't paid attention to that in years. Scholastic books are in color and on good paper! And, yeah, keep in mind that this isn’t including the direct market, just book stores. Telgermeier hasn’t come out with a new book in a couple years so that’s slowed her sales down but she’s still in the top ten of creators by sales. Jordan7hm posted:The direct market is a big portion of the comic sale market in NA, so that’s missing a big piece of the pie. In 2020 it was something like 60% of the more traditional book market. Even if that’s gone down, it’s a huge number for Marvel and DC in particular. I admit I’m a bit ignorant here; does the direct market include trade paperbacks or is it just single issues?
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 00:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 19:07 |
|
|
I think it includes trades, but this is from dim memory of comic shops with trades only having one big delivery in a week.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 06:38
|
|
|
It includes trades. Depending on the store, that could be a very big chunk of sales.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 12:18
|
|
|
When Elon bought Twitter I wiped my tweets, set the thing up with links to forward to other sites, and left the account parked with notifications to be sent to a secondary email box in case someone I needed to hear from tried to get in touch there. Today I got this alert and instantly shivered.  Apparently at some point the site broke in a way that it undeleted retweets. That's neat.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:00
|
|
|
lmao sorry you gotta totally delete your account now
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:59
|
|
|
secretly best girl posted:When Elon bought Twitter I wiped my tweets, set the thing up with links to forward to other sites, and left the account parked with notifications to be sent to a secondary email box in case someone I needed to hear from tried to get in touch there. Lol I wonder what those tweets were. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Apr 7, 2023 |
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:15
|
|
|
Found a copy of Ragman #1 (1976-1977). I'm excited about it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:28
|
|
|
I keep forgetting what a douchebag Rob Liefeld is. I started watching a recent Cartoonist Kayfabe with him as a guest and he almost immediately starts making GBS threads on the New Mutants' prior to his run on the book, the Fall of the Mutants storyline in particular. Starts around 9:28 or so if you're interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLA78FFMuU&t=565s ymmv regarding his talent versus Blevins and Louise Simonson but his whole attitude here is off putting to me
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:42
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1644437427828715529?s=20
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:47
|
|
|
That sucks. I've only read her DOOM patrol and that was good.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:56
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/bader_diedrich/status/1645123513022578688 I'm sad now.
|
|
#
?
Apr 9, 2023 19:21
|
|
|
Al Jaffee has passed away.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 00:37
|
|
|
Mr Hootington posted:Al Jaffee has passed away. Sad news. Those fold outs were great, his name will always be synonymous with MAD.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 00:57
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 13:12
|
|
|
I think this leaves Sergio Aragones as the last of the classic MAD crew. He wins the tontine and gets to keep The Lighter Side Of...
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 16:09
|
|
|
This took so much loving effort to find, I'm so pumped I finally got it: I've also got a copy of Howard Chaykin's American Flagg I am very excited about en route. It's been a good week for me bookwise
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 16:38
|
|
|
Frog Act posted:I've also got a copy of Howard Chaykin's American Flagg I am very excited about en route. It's been a good week for me bookwise I got this digitally and just couldn't read it. His artwork just does not work for me and I can't read anything drawn by him. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:03
|
|
|
Nemesis the Warlock owns so much
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:16
|
|
|
Uthor posted:I got this digitally and just couldn't read it. His artwork just does not work for me and I can't read anything drawn by him. Interesting, that's the first time I've heard that about Chaykin - in my experience he's been universally praised as a pointed satire of the Reagan era and kind of a classic of politically incisive but still intelligent and amusing comic art, but I haven't actually read anything by him. I started it on readcomiconline and enjoyed it enough I wanted to read it IRL though and I can see where you're coming from taking a look at it again. Hopefully I won't have the same reaction, though I recently picked up the Tank Girl collection and felt the same way you did about Chaykin, I just have a really hard time parsing the extremely busy panels. Gripweed posted:Nemesis the Warlock owns so much It might be my favorite, either that or Marshal Law, but Nemesis stands out for more or less singlehandedly defining everything that'd later make 40k what it is. I guess really my favorite is just Pat Mills
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:27
|
|
|
Frog Act posted:I recently picked up the Tank Girl collection and felt the same way you did about Chaykin, I just have a really hard time parsing the extremely busy panels. I unironically love the Tank Girl movie, but those comics also didn't hold my attention. The art worked fine for me, but there just wasn't a plot between the issues (or in the issues), so it felt like I was just reading funny sketches.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:35
|
|
|
Gripweed posted:Nemesis the Warlock owns so much BE PURE! BE VIGILANT! BEHAVE! God, it feels like a lifetime ago now.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:38
|
|
|
Frog Act posted:Interesting, that's the first time I've heard that about Chaykin - in my experience he's been universally praised as a pointed satire of the Reagan era and kind of a classic of politically incisive but still intelligent and amusing comic art, but I haven't actually read anything by him. I started it on readcomiconline and enjoyed it enough I wanted to read it IRL though and I can see where you're coming from taking a look at it again. Hopefully I won't have the same reaction, though I recently picked up the Tank Girl collection and felt the same way you did about Chaykin, I just have a really hard time parsing the extremely busy panels. Chaykin's 80s art was ok, but anything after the mid 90s is the ugliest God damned art put to page.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 17:42
|
|
|
Uthor posted:I unironically love the Tank Girl movie, but those comics also didn't hold my attention. The art worked fine for me, but there just wasn't a plot between the issues (or in the issues), so it felt like I was just reading funny sketches. Yeah same I thought, as a big fan of the film and the animated segments, the comics would also be the same kind of wacky-but-coherent post apocalyptica where there was a neat world to imagine some creative but not-too-zany characters occupying and that did not turn out to be the case. Instead the very first issue begins with her weird hybrid dog man boyfriend-cum-manservant doing a long monologue about how they like to gently caress and then engaging in some very disappointing action. I’m gonna try to push through to see if it improves but I’m not hopeful Mr Hootington posted:Chaykin's 80s art was ok, but anything after the mid 90s is the ugliest God damned art put to page. Interesting, I think American Flagg was entirely in the 80s and while the art does look a little funky I think it still ends up being distinctive rather than muddled. Curious to see how it looks in print which just has a fundamentally different five for me than readcomiconline
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 18:04
|
|
|
Frog Act posted:It might be my favorite, either that or Marshal Law, but Nemesis stands out for more or less singlehandedly defining everything that'd later make 40k what it is. I guess really my favorite is just Pat Mills Oh yeah, especially towards the end where it gets very explicit that neither Torquemada nor Nemesis give a poo poo about anyone, their promises of order or freedom are both equally lies, it's just a never-ending battle between monstrous inhuman forces that humanity is trapped in.
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 18:56
|
|
|
I've actually been waiting to finish it until I got that second book but Nemesis's singleminded selfishness and lack of regard for both humanity and the aliens he claims to represent feels like it has been thematically present to some degree or another all along, very excited to actually see how the latter half of the story goes
|
|
#
?
Apr 11, 2023 19:08
|
|
|
Are there any good modern choices for reading comics on PC? Not so much managing collections as for just having a pleasant reading experience. I've been using ComicRack for... God, at least a decade, and it's always been kind of janky and is now apparently abandoned. It feels like there must be something new out there, but all the ones I've been able to find have been focused on the "managing a giant collection" aspect of things.
|
|
#
?
Apr 12, 2023 03:56
|
|
|
On my laptop I use a program called MMCE and on my android tablet I use an app called ComicScreen
|
|
#
?
Apr 12, 2023 04:16
|
|
|
generally i use cdisplayex because it has smooth scrolling, but the dev has essentially abandoned the pc port to focus on the android version. sometimes i run into a thing where it just decides random comics are broken even though i can open them fine elsewhere mcomix is my fallback. it used to also be abandoned but i went to get the link for this post and discovered someone actually made some bug patches for it, so that's interesting. sadly doesn't have smooth scrolling or lanczos scaling like cdisplayex just a heads up though neither have anything for collections or reading lists, these are purely readers
|
|
#
?
Apr 12, 2023 04:31
|
|
|
I use cdisplay on my laptop. I can turn the lap top on the side and rotate the image so it's like reading a physical book. At home, the laptop is typically plugged into my tv, so I just scroll normal style there.
|
|
#
?
Apr 12, 2023 17:32
|
|
|
I was looking for a TMNT thread but there isn’t one so I’m gonna leave this here. https://twitter.com/henereyg/status/1646724524849893382?s=46&t=K6CRMiA33aFQep_ZPx64DQ
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 13:17
|
|
|
Gripweed posted:I was looking for a TMNT thread but there isn’t one so I’m gonna leave this here. OK?
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 14:12
|
|
|
There’s a new publisher on the horizon. My initial reaction was old man yells at cloud, I HATE names like that. Taking out vowels isn’t clever. Stop it. https://twitter.com/georgegustines/status/1646529792362127360?s=46&t=2Vl5mZOAuXyv2LbW1v-6cQ
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 14:24
|
|
|
Joe Fisto posted:There’s a new publisher on the horizon. Yeah, it's, um, not getting a good reaction in the digital comics thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3611527&pagenumber=157&perpage=40&userid=0#post531153909
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 14:56
|
|
|
Uthor posted:Yeah, it's, um, not getting a good reaction in the digital comics thread. Oh wow. That's great.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 15:27
|
|
|
Kestral posted:Are there any good modern choices for reading comics on PC? Not so much managing collections as for just having a pleasant reading experience. I've been using ComicRack for... God, at least a decade, and it's always been kind of janky and is now apparently abandoned. It feels like there must be something new out there, but all the ones I've been able to find have been focused on the "managing a giant collection" aspect of things. Cdisplay is my no frills easy reader, but I primarily use Cover as it acts like Plex for conics and can retrieve books from OneDrive while tracking progress and such.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 15:29
|
|
|
All the Corto Maltese talk made me realize I'm missing a bunch as well...and also some Asterix...and some Mampato...and Valentina and... Oh god I need to win the lottery.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 17:50
|
|
|
Joe Fisto posted:There’s a new publisher on the horizon. Screw "digital scarcity". gently caress em.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 17:51
|
|
|
Vincent posted:Screw "digital scarcity". gently caress em. Seems like there’s several years too late to catch up on that lovely trend.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 20:23
|
|
|
Is this why Amazon kneecapped Comixology?
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 20:47
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 19:07 |
|
|
Vincent posted:All the Corto Maltese talk made me realize I'm missing a bunch as well...and also some Asterix...and some Mampato...and Valentina and... What's Mampato and Valentina. (NUFFIN MUCH WHATS MAMPATO AND VALENTINA WITH YOU) Anyway if you want printed cartoons from Europe, check out Tardi, Comes, Buzzelli, and especially Altan.
|
|
#
?
Apr 14, 2023 22:42
|
|