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Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years

30 years of selling comics in London Gosh, a London comics shop, is 30 years old: So not a bad year for comics, and not a bad year for us:

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For my photographer readers

[http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517](http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517) (from the wonderful PC Hipsta comic…)

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The end of the shared media moment

Berkeley Breathed on the reaction to his return to Bloom County: “There is no media that will allow a Charlie Brown or a Snoopy to become a universal and shared

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The radical politics of Peanuts

What happened when Peanuts introduced a black kid? I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’

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Amazon versus Captain America

re/code on Amazon’s rapidly escalating war with media owners: Retail giant Amazon is giving Captain America, Miss Piggy and Maleficent the cold shoulder. Consumers are suddenly unable to place advance orders to buy DVDs or Blu-ray discs of forthcoming films from Walt

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The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print

Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells

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Clickbait, as mocked by comics

Looks like Marvel Comics has take the measure of today’s news cycle. From yesterday’s Original Sins #1: The “spammy click bait phase of the news cycle” just entered my vocabulary. Good work. (Not the first time comics have commented on the state

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The publishing winner on iPads - comics - are under threat from Amazon

It’s interesting to note that one type of publication was hugely assisted by the arrival of the iPad: comics. Very few people bought comic books digitally before the iPad (probably more stole them). Remember how the iPad was going to save publications? This

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Dear Superman, about that blogging thing...

An open letter to Superman: Firstly, let’s talk money. I assume you are being paid at The Daily Planet? You are? Well being a blogger is slightly different. As a blogger, you are expected to eat your “raised profile” sleep under “increased traffic”

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Clark Kent quits newspapers to become a blogger...

Tomorrow, newspaper journalism loses another icon. Clark Kent, well-known reporter on that famous Metropolis organ The Daily Planetquits, to go into online journalism. That’s right, Superman is getting out of print journalism, and he’s not the only great icon of comics to

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The Mighty Marvel Pinterest

Marvel Comics launches Pinterest and Tumblr accounts. A visual content publisher promotes itself on visual aggregation and sharing sites. Utterly simply, perfect match. I could do without the “begging for engagement” comments under every image, though: “What do you think of this blog post

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Beyond the inverted pyramid

The tyranny of the inverted pyramid in most journalists’ minds right now is one of my recurring bugbears. It’s a product of print, and of the working techniques needed to get words onto paper in a timely fashion. But people can’t seem

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The Future of Newspapers (via Spider-Man)

When I was growing up, my understanding of who and what journalists actually were was largely defined by the staff of the Daily Bugle, employer of Peter Parker, better known as the Amazing Spider-Man. In particular, they were defined by this chap, the infamous

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Weapons Illustrated

It appears that the arms tradedefence industry publishes comic books. Not good ones, mind…

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Comic reaction

John Allison of Scary-go-round fame comments on the day in cartoon form.