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Coming This Week And A Question For Everyone! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-12 14:58:13
Imported:
2024-01

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Hello, everyone!

Last week was a whirlwind of activity, so it was difficult to find time to make a post to keep you all informed about what was arriving that week. Not to mention, I seem to have a persistent cold that only now seems to be calming down.

Anyway...

This week a video about Melmoth is a certainty. I hope to get another short one done about Steve Gerber's Phantom Zone miniseries (because it's been written for a while, waiting for a place to be inserted) and start on a Danger Street review. AND my "audiobook" of The Call Of Cthulhu...which is recorded and being edited. So, it's another busy week for me.

As for the question:

I've long wanted to investigate the claim that the comic book industry is either dead or dying. With, you know, actual evidence/facts proving it one way or another. For the record, I have no pony in that race. I'm not a comic book professional. And the industry could collapse this moment and I'd still have enough material to keep my channel alive for another decade. So, it's a weird side discussion that seems to pop up every now and again, but I really haven't paid attention to any of the arguments. Because, well, from my perspective as a total outsider, I don't really see it.

So, for those that hold this opinion, why is the industry dying? Or is that a claim without substantiation?

This is a genuine, no judgment question. I sincerely want to know so I can investigate and see what I can see.

Comments

Anonymous

Not an opinion so much, or anything particularly insightful, but I feel like comics are like many creative industries (music, film, etc), and have struggled so far in the digital/online content era (in terms of financial rewards to the creators, at least). Not that comics don't translate well to that medium, but they are a different type of beast now, with kind of a more niche status, and one many people are more reticent to pay high prices in. Comic fans that know comics continue to seek them out, but new fans have little way to casually encounter them and become fans. It's a more extreme result like the death of newsstand distribution was. If the movies haven't proven great at driving interest in significant numbers, I'm not sure what would be. It's a shame there's not a way for more casual readers to encounter/discover them without actively seeking them.

Juan Navarro

It's amazing how many people in the industry, live in a bubble, and what you can get with a dollar is not the same. On top of an economy that is becoming a real grind, you have to compare the entertainment value at the hand of a new $4.99 comic versus something like Netflix or Disney+ and how hard it is to get that dollar from the general audience. I say this as a comic creator myself, who has other means, but that to get my book and work into people's hands, it's the best time to do it, but the hardest time to make money. The internet connects us more than ever and video channels like yours also keep the hobby and the art form alive by being a source of finding more. At the same time, we have fewer readers than ever, and many folks rather be spoon-fed material than read. I think there are some incredible comics out there, that need us to support them, not just read them, to keep it all going. So to sum up it's a great time to MAKE COMICS, but not a great time to MKAE MONEY making comics. If that makes sense.