Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie is an excellent case study of the different options over the years for publishing webcomics as the industry (and audience) has changed. There were some early self-published editions, then There Are No Stars in Brooklyn came out from Villard, an imprint of Random House, in 2010. Big book publishers were eager to get in on the graphic novel boom during a time when more traditional lines were struggling, and comics showed huge growth potential. Only the […]

The latest issue of Comic Book Creator, #10, has a couple of interesting announcements tucked in amongst editorial comments. Under the theory that good journalism doesn’t date, I assume, the TwoMorrows publication will be running several pieces planned for magazines no longer with us. The first comment comes in the opening editor’s note. Jon B. Cooke confirms that his 2015 new periodical launch, ACE, All Comics Evaluated, is defunct. As he puts it, it “suffered from low order numbers that […]

I edited my first podcast! While traveling from Virginia back to Wisconsin after the holidays, KC and I stopped off to have lunch with old buddy and comics maven Beau Smith. KC asked him some questions about his creation Wynonna Earp, soon to be a TV show, I recorded them, and the result became a 16-minute audio interview. Find out more at KC’s latest Westfield column, where you can listen to the two of them.

It’s just past Christmas, so time to get people to spend those gift cards! Amazon sent out an email this morning promoting Graphic Novels, and I found their organizational system fascinating. There were six categories listed: Media Tie-In Graphic Novels Religion & Spirituality Graphic Novels Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels Contemporary Women Graphic Novels Romance Graphic Novels Literary Graphic Novels All the superhero, zombie, or science fiction stories lumped into only one “tie-in” category! And that fourth category is a […]