i know the boreders book store on the big island is sinking because people are not buying books. howzit going where you live?
aloha.
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Bob Luedke said:
Hey Alec - you got a link to that Jamaica thing?
Understand, I heard the same kind of things 8 years ago, when I set out to create the first Eye Witness book. I also heard the same thing about the comic industry in the late 80's when I pondered opening a store. People with stories to tell or art to create, don't stop to guage the business marketplace, they just do it!
It's quite easy to see the worst in almost any situation, but hold on to your dreams but make sure to do your homework (from a business side). If it's story worth telling, God will open the doors to make it happen.
"Sunshine" Bob-
leo said:
Production cost : output ratio : audience willing to buy to cover said cost. (If you have an audience to begin with).
You have any pointers on production vs. return?
In this day and age, there seems to be an expectation that everything is supposed to be an immediate smash hit and make lots of money - when most people don't realize it takes years to build an audience. And then once the audience is built - you have to do the hard work of maintaining it.
IF the product that you (universal you) love so much that you created for yourself DOESN'T SELL, then the world at large obviously didn't care for it too much - re-adjust and try again. (This leads in to the David Mazzucchelli thing).
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Re: D. Mazz and ASTERIOS POLYP
I can tell immediately why it will never sell to a mass audience: It's too smart for itself. It may be brilliant, it may be clever, it may be absolutely fantastic - but it's trying too hard.
(This is also the same issue with the brilliant Ulysses by James Joyce. It's too smart for itself. After reading half a chapter you want to rip your eyes out with a fork - though those who are willing to wade through it will be highly rewarded with smart word play, clever thoughts, insights on multiple levels, and possibly even a new language. But who's got time for that? Again limited audience.)
Outside of the traditional comics readers who happen to know who D.M. even is, and the "intellectuals" he seems to be reaching out to, no one knows his stuff - and no one cares. It's a niche book for a very select audience and needs to be treated as such. Again, an audience has to be built - and Rome wasn't built in a day. Did he or his publisher build a large audience outside of his traditional comics work? Maybe - but I've never seen it.
A point I was attempting to make in another thread - but may never have clarified, is (and this is particularly important for the Christian producers): Don't rely on one market, don't rely on one product, don't rely on one mechanism to sell/push your stuff. If something of yours gains traction RUN WITH IT and support it with all your might. If something of yours is constantly failing or seems like it's running into brick walls, re-think, re-adjust, and try again.
I think Buzz (with Snokie), Alec (Calvary Comics) and Bob L. (Head Press Publshing) are doing things the right way and there is much to be learned from reasons why they produce their stuff, to how they get it out there.
Build over time - and improve always from your previous effort.
Buzz Dixon said:
In the U.S., one out of ten people's homes are being foreclosed upon. The jobless rate is still at 10%, if not higher, and things are not looking any better. College tuitions are so high that within ten years only the very rich will be able to afford to send their children. Comics fans like to cite the Great Depression as a boom time for comics---but comic books were 64 pages in color for only ten cents, and cheap entertainment like that is long over. What can you get for ten cents now? It's a new scenario with new dynamics.
Personally, I believe we're on the brink of the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), and then there will be a total economic fallout that only the Antichrist can "solve." We need to keep our eyes on Christ and our hearts filled with the Holy Ghost as we prayerfully meditate upon and act upon His Word. Soul-winning is what it's all about, anyway, not entertaining lost humanity as they plummet down a greased slide into a lost eternity.
Our lives must be a transparent, compelling testimony for Christ to the masses, and the work of our hands should refect as much, too.
Brazil, Turkey, and one other nation have entered an agreement to provide uranium to Iran for its nuclear program. Jamaica's prime minister has just ordered all Americans out its country within five days. We've just come through all sorts of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and Iceland's volcano paralyzing Europe's airlines for a time. We're on the brink of incredible change in so many ways, and we should not be caught unawares.
Martin Murtonen said:
But, they don't sell that well anyways do they?
Martin Murtonen said:
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