How Do We Respond to Trump? “God of Horror” Passes Away and a lot of reviews— The Comic Bookmarks November 10th, 2024
O.k. So I missed last week. In my defense, it was a busy weekend (two concerts and a wedding to attend) and then this past Tuesday just knocked the wind out of everything else that was happening.
Scott Cederlund
Scott Cederlund
Headlines
Graeme McMillan
McMillan’s piece here isn’t so much about specific comics even as it uses V For Vendetta as a touchstone but about how in past periods, culture has driven the creation of art. But something that has lived in my head for 7 or 8 years ago now is a line from the the propaganda machine in V saying “… make Britain great again.”
Will Salmon
Kazuo Umezu’s artwork is some of the first images that come to mind when I think about manga.
Liam Elder-Connors
A great story about how Christine Farrell built one of the largest comic book collections.
Comic Sites on Comic Sites
Joshua Tyler
Classifying this here as GFR has done some comic writing in the past but reading this, it’s kind of scary to realize just how much power Alphabet (the parent company of Google and YouTube) has over publishers and creators right now. Google Search is such a big way that this site gets eyes on it but it’s just at the mercy of our technological overlords, isn’t it?
Business
SB Fair 2024 sales: £491,194. Especially happy considering we had fewer exhibitors/comics this year (than in 2023). Thank you so much for all your support 🌷✨ •Average sales in 2022, 97 exhibitors: £1521 •Average sales in 2023, 135 exhibitors: £2249 •Average sales in 2024, 117 exhibitors: £4198
— ShortBox Comics Fair (@shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social) November 7, 2024 at 7:34 AM
ShortBox Comics Fair gives us a glimpse of their sales and it’s fascinating to see the results and the growing success of this online model.
Good tip. Done.
— Derf Backderf (@derfbackderf.bsky.social) November 9, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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Some thoughts on the Absolute line, FOC, and fomo. The timing of how we have to order comics and what comics get picked by the spec sites can lead to some frustration balancing orders. Absolute Batman #1 was on FOC first, obviously. We were going in mostly blind, but lots of good incentives by...
— Ryan Higgins (@ryanhiggins.bsky.social) November 8, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Ryan has a whole thread on this where this is just the start of it. Click on the link and check out everything he has to say about FOC and the current speculation market for comics.
Thousands of creators are getting hurt by Apple's greed. I am one of them. www.patreon.com/posts/115213...
— Mathew Buck (@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social) November 2, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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The Funny Pages
Trump-Lucy (Trucy?) prob one of the most horrifying things i’ve seen this week so now you gotta see it too
— David Chen (@davechen.bsky.social) November 8, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Reviews & Features
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I’ll admit— The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic just intimidates me. It’s been sitting on the to-read pile for a few weeks now and I almost feel like I’m going to need to sit with that one for a year or so.
Joe McCulloch
Luckily, Joe McColloch is a much braver and wiser man than I am and dove headfirst into Moore’s book.
Ian Cordingley
I like reading reviews of Owen Pomery’s The Hard Switch because it is a book that I have a hard time connecting with. I keep meaning to give it another go because I loved his Victory Point but my general feel of this book was that it was just the beginning of something and that something felt like it could have been much more interesting than its beginning was.
Colin Moon
I hope I’m around to see the conclusion of Jessica Farm in 2050.
Jake Murray
This is another one of those mainstream comics that feels very much of its time.
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