Long-running independent comic company SLG Publishing (formerly Slave Labor Graphics) has always been a scrappy canary, leading the way and pushing the boundary when it comes to particular industry trends. They were the first significant publisher to sell their publications digitally back in 2006, setting up their own web store and providing downloadable PDF or CBZ files, although getting readers to participate was a struggle. That same year, they offered certain comic series as digital-only, serializing them online and then […]

Although I was wondering about the future of Life With Archie magazine, it looks like they’ll be around for at least four more months. Archie has just announced that an older version of their popular Kevin Keller character will be appearing in Life With Archie, and in issue #16 (due out January 2012), Kevin’s getting married to his “Mr. Right”. As suggested in the currently running Kevin Keller miniseries (in the Veronica comic beginning with issue #207), Kevin joined the […]

I thought I was done writing about SPX, but then they posted the panel I moderated, “Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape”. Here’s the full 48-some minutes via Vimeo. The lineup, from left to right, is Meredith Gran, Julia Wertz, Domitille Collardey, Roger Langridge, Mike Dawson, and me. I was honored to be part (temporarily) of such a distinguished group of creators. Here’s the description from the program: In the early 2000s, corporate publishers nearly raced to acquire graphic novels. Now, […]