The current comics market is a funny thing. On one hand, it's obvious to see the downward spiral of the direct market...perhaps not in sales per outlet but in overall impact yet there is also this growing growth in a lot of different areas such as webcomics, print on demand, online sales, etc. It is a market that is increasingly becoming polarized into the old way and the new way. Although the old way still dominates as far as sales, publicity, and visibility, it is interesting to see how fast things are changing.

I came out of the old ways with retailing (I had four comic stores at one time) and publishing (Caliber Comics) and after I shut down Caliber, I sort of let things fade. I got back into comics with my writing and yet, I felt that things were rather dormant. Upon starting Transfuzion Publishing (first books are just coming out now) as a print medium and putting my library of comics on Drive Thru Comics (more are being added but up to over 200 issues now), the next phase is to begin producing webcomics.

I work with Steve Jones quite a bit and we discussed things as he was doing Talismen with Barb Jacobs and it got a pretty good response. So, I have a number of projects in the works for that new direction and now looking for the best means of presentation and distirbution.

So, it's a frustrating market on one side but one full of exciting possibilites on the other.