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: on the 14th February 1986, Gosh! Comics opened its doors…
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A collection of 16 posts
For my photographer readers
[http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517](http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517) (from the wonderful PC Hipsta comic…)…
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 joy each morning at the same moment across the country,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…