News and Whatnot for Friday, February 23, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on February 23, 2007 - 11:08

BUSINESS

Dirk Deppey has a great discussion today of the growth of graphic novels as the now-predominant form of print comics in North America. The discussion is based on analysis from industry analyst Milton Griepp (more of the analysis at ICv2). Interestingly, the total sales numbers also represent the highest sales for the comic and graphic novel market since the early 90s. Even more startling is Deppey's estimate that the manga market is somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the total marketshare for comics of any kind in the United States today.

INTERVIEWS

The Daily Cross Hatch presents the second part of its interview with James Kochalka (link from Journalista!) (The Daily Cross Hatch is a great new blog on comics - worth checking out!)
CBR has an interview with Wesley Green, who publishes the online indy comic site Independent Propaganda and also started up Ambrosia Publishing and the webcomic hosting service Ambrosia Digicomics.

OTHER WIKI(s) WATCH

I don't know why the TV Tropes wiki has entries on webcomics but there's an interesting one on "webcomics time", and a list of other "webcomics tropes":

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

PinkRayGun has an overview of a comics collectiveSweet 7000 Baaadassss Comics (7000 BC). Awesome name - go check out their comics. called

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Over at Fleen, Anne Thalheimer writes a self-described "fannish" post on some webcomics she likes. If you're going to go all fan-boy on something, Scary Go Round ain't a bad choice...
Thomas Mauer says, "Build a buffer kids!" I'd link to his webcomic, The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo (if for no other reason than the name) but he didn't link to it from his blog.
T CAMPBELL says Hey Rich Johnston! TokyoPop still does the webmanga!

xerexes wrote:Thomas Mauer

by Tim Tylor - 02/23/2007 - 11:49

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Thomas Mauer says, "Build a buffer kids!" I'd link to his webcomic, The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo (if for no other reason than the name) but he didn't link to it from his blog.

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It's in the "Webcomics" side-links. EAPoo is definitely worth a look.

Thanks!

by Xaviar Xerexes - 02/23/2007 - 12:54

Didn't see that there.

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Xaviar Xerexes

On second thought, let's not go to Comixpedia. It is a silly place.

I run this place! Tip the piano player on the way out.

Trope links

by Tim Tylor - 02/23/2007 - 11:39

Unfortunately, some of the trope links go to the "edit" pages, so you can't see them without a password. (Or maybe they're just not written yet, as with some of the links in Wikipedia.)

Password is given to you

by Xaviar Xerexes - 02/23/2007 - 11:44

If you're not seeing anything it must be b/c it hasn't been written yet (I copied the list of tropes but did not check each one out).