Reminder that the comic industry isn't dying and looks better than ever, it just doesn't include Marvel and DC.
Reminder that the comic industry isn't dying and looks better than ever, it just doesn't include Marvel and DC
Matthew Young
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Isaac Wood
>people don't want to read woke, pozzed garbage
who'd have thunk it? god bless the nips
Robert Garcia
This board would improve a lot if Marvel and DC died
And the fans too
Austin Gomez
Based, I've always preferred graphic novels over superhero comics anyway.
Hudson Nelson
>it just doesn't include Marvel and DC.
Good luck getting that through the skulls of the casual retards that dominate this board.
Carson Hall
the day diamonds die and foreign comics can finally be sold somewhere else than specialized shops is the day capeshit dies overnight.
Landon Flores
Well it seems that everything is dying in 2020. But most of you already knew that.
Camden Ross
Same.
I can respect the superheros, but they have been run into the ground.
Colton Garcia
So what falls under the definition of graphic novels?
Jonathan Gray
At this point Marvel and DC can't milk any more Spider Man and Batman than they already do. Even their latest mode is similar: endless alternate universe versions.
Gavin Gomez
>it just doesn't include Marvel and DC
Yeah, Dog Man is doing great for Scholastic, selling to 5-8 year olds.
It's funny though, Japan would never merge children books with their Manga sales to pretend their sales are better, but in the US, this is the only way they can pretend that the comics industry isn't dying.
Nolan Johnson
There's plenty of money to be made in comics, just now for Marvel, DC and the other pozzed companies. Some comic shops will go out of business but the smart ones have been hedging their bets with back issues and tabletop games.
Wyatt Gutierrez
>Foreign comics
Most manga are sold in bookstores or big box retailers rather than specialty shops like capeshit is. Or are you referring to eurocomics?
Comics, typically original stories, written for and collected in trades rather than floppies.
Henry Hill
>Japan would never merge children books with their Manga sales to pretend their sales are better
What's the difference between children's manga and just manga? Isn't manga a broad term used to describe all professionaly published comic output in Japan?
Grayson Torres
>pozzed
>FaggotFrog shit
Post disregarded
Jaxson James
Marvel and DC aren't going to die, neither parent company will allow their biggest money farms to croak especially when superhero popularity still remains high.
But comic output from either company might seriously contract and undergo significant changes. Physical floppies and the direct market will likely be shut down, and comics will be released digitally followed by print trades sold in the same places Scholastic and manga are.
Juan Carter
reminder that in the west, every decision inadvertently creates as many negatives as positives. for as shitty as capeshit can be, do you want american comics to be dominated by comis like "ctrl+alt+del" or "dumbing of ages" or 50 "homestuck" knockoffs?
cause thats what we'll probably get.
Nicholas Jenkins
>NPD reports that the manga sub-category accounted for nearly three-quarters of the growth in this most recent quarter.
Manga is growing
Comics are dying
You fucking retards
Here's the article if you wanna see for yourselves.
gamesradar.com
Tyler Rogers
>my time has come at last
John Long
All your examples are zombie webcomics that won't as print comics and aren't counted as industry sales.
Despite that, there are always going to be a fuckton of bad to mediocre comics compared to good ones, it's going on right now. It's not just a western thing too, there's plenty of garbage in the eastern sphere that just never gets picked up and brought over.
Josiah Gutierrez
DC's trade sales went up
Samuel Young
Manga volumes and comics for kids, mostly.
Owen Sanchez
Yes. Manga is holding up the industry. But big two comics are dragging it down & indies don't have enough of an impact the way manga does.
Matthew Bell
>Japan would never merge children books with their Manga sales
Shonen Jump is literally for children
Ian Baker
The IP's won't die but the comics definitely could. I doubt any new characters they make will have any real staying power. The last one people actually liked was Anti-venom.
Jack Baker
The 'youngest' manga is the shonen jump stuff that is aimed at boys 10 and up, there is no manga for little babies that I know of.
Christian Martin
any collection, trade paperback, hardcover, omnibus...
Grayson Reed
Coronavirus may have one positive benefit.
Daniel Howard
>Superhero sales are declining while other graphic novels have seen increases in sales
Comics aren't dying, Marvel and DC capes are.
Jose White
No, it's for teenager. And read by teenagers. Capeshit is also for teenagers but it's read by 40 year old manchildren.
Chase Gutierrez
there are kodomo manga like Doraemon.
Leo Green
BATMAN BATMAN BATMAN
XMEN XMEN XMEN.
Forever and ever.
Lincoln Miller
To be fair I never buy individual issues. I always buy trade paperbacks.
Levi Parker
>No, it's for teenager. And read by teenagers.
SJ Advanced is their teen branding. Regular SJ is for preteens.
Aaron Johnson
Can this become a general thread about non Big2 publications worth reading?
Lately I've picked up
>The Black Monday Murders
>Manifest Destiny
>Torpedo
The latter two are finished and quite good, BMM got hiatus'd as the artist is slowly dying or something but is pretty alright, sort of shat itself at the end of volume 2 but I'm invested enough to want to finish it.
Ryder Ross
>SJ Advanced
huh?
Jeremiah Collins
>comic industry
*manga industry
Brody Nelson
Ah yes you are right I forgot about that. But I wonder if there is market for that stuff in the west.
Jose Bailey
Non-floppy/strip/web comics. It's a descriptor of girth.
Logan Martin
>But I wonder if there is market for that stuff in the west.
Hello Kitty?
Eli Bailey
Wasn't the Electric Tale of Pikachu ridiculously popular back in the fucking day?
That was a manga for babies.
>checks
>At the time of its release Issue #1 was the best-selling manga issue, and best-selling comic book of any type, in the United States.[1] The first volume, The Electric Tale of Pikachu!, was released on September 5, 1999. In the United States, the volume sold 1.001 million copies, the highest for a single comic book since 1993.[2]
Yep. Babies confirmed for reading manga.
Colton Rodriguez
You poser retards knownthat graphic novel is a publication format and there have been many superhero graphic novels (to the point of Marvel literally having a line called "Marvel Graphic Novels"). What the fuck is wrong with people like you, who storm in high and mighty when you have NOTHING of value to contribute to the conversation. You fucking disgust me.
Jose Rogers
not that it matters because as the article explains, THEY'RE COUNTING MANGA, AND MOST OF THE GROWTH IS FROM MANGA, NOT COMICS
Jason Barnes
>American manga publishing is booming
>no one is licensing good manga
Justin Moore
If we're talking about very small children here, then let it be mentioned that picture books are very popular and more are published than ever.
Ryder Ross
Oh that explains it, youre a little Zig Forumsutist dancing on the equivalent of a mildly disliked neighbor's grave. Fucking embarrassing faggot.
Evan Phillips
Be grateful. Scanlators work immeasurably faster and if the good series don't get picked up nobody has to worry about cease and desists.