However, my personal crusade to find Christian professionals in the mainstream Comic Industry has yielded few returns. Perhaps some are on this site, but I am also open to suggestions on blogs, magazine/news articles, and preferrably interviews on podcasts, secular or Christian.
If you know of any, please post.
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Blessings,
Lee
P.S. Good seeing you (albeit too briefly) in NY. Hope you and your tribe had a good time!
Alec
Wow...what a dramatic change from 20 years back (when I owned a pair of retail shops) and the best sellers sold regularly from 100k to up to a million per month, and the threshold for cancelation for a series was 45k or less for the big two.
For contrast, when I secured my first book trade distribution contract, (in 2005), the person who signed me (who was a veteran of the trade...helping to develop the Christian arm of Ingram), told me that a best seller in book trade was typically thought of as one selling 10,000 copies.
bob-
www.headpress.info
Years ago I received a phone call from the editor of a very well known and successful line of comics who, after we talked for a bit, began to break down and weep. He admitted to being a backslidden Christian and said, "I don't know why I'm even working on this stuff!" It was eating at his soul. I told him to get out of it, to quit his job and do something else. He didn't take my advice. Some time later we spoke again and he was hard as stone. He had shaken off all conviction. What a tragedy. He had become like Esau who, after he had sold his birthright, had no way to repent, no way to change his mind.
Matt- it's an interesting comics world we live in. I can't believe their that expensive in Australia! [tho i understand the currencty exchange, etc.].
But this is the basic break up of pricing- less comics sell, so companies raise their prices- to maintain profits, but then people buy less, which in turn raises prices again- that or other cost cutting measures are taken, such as lines being dropped and people loosing jobs... so it's a bad cycle overall, with various factors dwindling it down...
It seems the Christian bookstore marketplace hasn't yet "gotten it" as to what graphic novels are, and who their target audience is, or the fact that their secular counterparts are, at times, treated as a legitimate art form (and literary form). Perhaps the digital venues will succeed in reaching the audience that the "brick and mortar" shops failed to do, especially once digital is the norm.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/09/dc-entertainment-plans...
I read online that in August, 2010 no Marvel or DC comics titles sold over 100,000 copies per single issue, and that over 45% of them sold under 15,000 copies per issue.
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