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Brian Wood on digital vs brick and mortar: “Everyone is bleeding.”
Everyone is bleeding - The Beat commenting on Woods response to the Dark Horse vs. retailers clash over pricing of simultaneous digital releases.
Problem is…we do all love our retailer friends but they haven’t been able to grow the market for comics. That’s a fact. I love each and everyone of them but if things had been going well DC and Marvel wouldn’t have broken the glass on their last ditch emergency axes. Is a tiny, warty **** really the only thing we have to look forward to?
Everyone I know loves comic shops. Everyone I know who makes comics, especially creator-owned comics, is hurting, financially. EVERYONE is bleeding, its a bad time. So to what extent does digital as a publishing format represent an additional revenue stream, one on top of print sales through shops, one that can ease some of the suffering?
Max Douglas (born 1970) is a Canadian comic-book creator. Since approximately 1996, he has worked under the pen name of Salgood Sam which is derived from a reverse spelling of his name.
His last full Graphic Novel is Therefore Repent! with Jim Monroe, and you can currently find his work in Ghostbusters: Tainted Love, the Eisner winning Comic Book Tattoo, Popgun 4, Awesome 2: Awesomer, and the slip case edition of Sea of Red. Online you can read his next book as an ongoing webcomic, Dream life. And short stories on RevolveЯ.
Online at salgoodsam.com. dl.txcomics.com. RevolveЯ. Sequential. G+. youtube.com. flickr.com. twitter.com. linkedin.com. flickr. freesound.org. facebook fan page. & facebook group.
