The Apple Tax Hits Patreon, Comics’ Award Season Continue, a Zoe Thorogood Poetry Comic on Instagram, and more -- The Comic Bookmarks Aug 18th, 2024
The summer must end but not yet. There's still a few weeks left to it.
This week on the site, I explored John Porcellino's latest issue of King-Cat Comics & Stories.
Headlines
Enshittification, wiping out indie comics creators one by one.
— Derf Backderf (@derfbackderf.bsky.social) Aug 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Michael Simon
As usual, Apple wants their cut of any transaction that uses their systems. Remember that you can always just go to the Patreon website, support creators there instead of through an app, and use PayPal or a credit card to pay without having Apple eat 30% of the creator’s incomes.
TMZ Staff
TMZ covers the con as only they can…
JK Parkin
Chris Arrant
Awards season just keeps on rolling along.
Business
DC's most iconic stories—portable and only $9.99! The first six DC Compact Comics are available now, with more titles to come through October and beyond. https://t.co/8bGehPFQym pic.twitter.com/yOvRoCUa0S
— DC (@DCOfficial) August 15, 2024
I’m currently reading the Compact edition of Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman Earth One and it’s a great experience- a fantastic format that really works to make things easily available. It’s great to see DC’s official social media account putting this out there in the world. As of Saturday afternoon, this post has over 694K views, which looks to be huge for them.
Over the next few weeks you're going to see changes on social posts over at @thevaultcomics.
— Britta Buescher (@britta_buescher) August 14, 2024
Images are going to start to look /different/ here's why:
There’s a whole thread here about how Vault Comics’ social presence is changing as more social media companies are using art from posts to train their AI.
What comics sites do you read? Doesn’t have to be huge? Or do you just watch YouTube videos about comics? Who do you watch?
— Heidi MacDonald (@Comixace) August 12, 2024
Another good thread that fills me with both hope and dread about just how much of an audience there is out there for sites that cover comic books. I’ve found one or two sites in this thread that I didn’t know about but there’s still just a lot of the old guard sites listed here, as if we haven’t developed anything post 2010.
The Funny Pages
Reviews & Features
Comicbookdb.com was such a great site. It’s still disappointing that all of that data is lost. This is a reposting of an older piece by Sean Kleefield but talks about the need for some kind of cataloging solutions for collections.
Alex Hoffman
Rob Kirby
Two fascinating and complementary pieces about Rescue Party, a collection of work that was originally meant to just be online pieces, then was a controversial Kickstarter, and now is a book published by Pantheon.
Reed Jackson
I just love the question that leads off this piece— does Aidan Koch do a lot with a little or a little with a lot?
