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Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years Paid Members Public
30 years of selling comics in London [http://www.goshlondon.com/2016/02/gosh-its-our-30th-birthday/] 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 for the
For my photographer readers Paid Members Public
[http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517](http://pchipsta.tumblr.com/post/131939129517) (from the wonderful PC Hipsta comic [http://pchipsta.tumblr.com]…)
The end of the shared media moment Paid Members Public
Berkeley Breathed on the reaction to his return to Bloom County [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/14/berkeley-breathed-speaks-here-is-why-bloom-county-is-really-returning/] : > “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 radical politics of Peanuts Paid Members Public
What happened when Peanuts introduced a black kid [http://hubpages.com/hub/How-The-Peanuts-Comic-Strip-Got-Its-First-Black-Character] ? > 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’
Amazon versus Captain America Paid Members Public
re/code on Amazon’s rapidly escalating war with media owners [http://recode.net/2014/08/09/amazon-takes-on-disney-and-captain-america/]: > 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
The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print Paid Members Public
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 more in digital than print,
Clickbait, as mocked by comics Paid Members Public
Looks like Marvel Comics has take the measure of today’s news cycle. From yesterday’s Original Sins #1 [https://www.comixology.co.uk/Original-Sins-1-of-5/digital-comic/104064]: The “spammy click bait phase of the news cycle” just entered my vocabulary. Good work. (Not the first time comics have commented on
The publishing winner on iPads - comics - are under threat from Amazon Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/comixology-new-app-3708.html] 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
