And the audio and transcript have been posted from today’s “Marketplace” show — Jim Lee, Joe Field, Dave Pifer, and I are interviewed. My line about first issues is accurate, to be sure — though I did try to make some wider points about legacy title numbering throughout comics history, and how mileage has … Read more
Still churning on the end-of-year analysis, but in the meantime, I was a guest recently for a wide-ranging ComicBookPage podcast with John Mayo and Bob Bretall. It’s actually a “Super Fan Spotlight,” getting into my personal collecting interests and comics and fiction writing — but as John and I both track the same numbers in … Read more
Here’s part of a talk I had with Tom Spurgeon of ComicsReporter about comics and recessions. Some of this is stuff I’ve said elsewhere, but I think the general theory is true — we need to look at front-market and back-market separately, and then you need to look at how the structure of the comics … Read more