{"id":5564,"date":"2009-12-18T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:41:02","slug":"comics-in-serial-form-necessary-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/comics-in-serial-form-necessary-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics in serial form: Necessary and vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tilting-at-Windmills-Brian-Hibbs\/dp\/0971977577?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0971977577&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20\" alt=\"Tilting at Windmills\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a long time since the days when I was editing <b>Brian Hibbs<\/b>&#8216; <b><i>Tilting at Windmills<\/i><\/b> column every month for <b><i>Comics Retailer<\/i><\/b> magazine, but I wanted to direct readers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=24104\"><b>this month&#8217;s internet installment<\/b><\/a>, which includes an analysis of the reasons why the comic book periodical is and remains a necessary component to the North American comics publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these are points that have been raised here and elsewhere for a long time, having to do with how comics are produced, and the limitations of a graphic-novel only strategy; Brian compiles them in a compelling analysis that also takes in the manga comparison. Were this 1999, this&#8217;d get a cover blurb!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since the days when I was editing Brian Hibbs&#8216; Tilting at Windmills column every month for Comics Retailer magazine, but I wanted to direct readers to this month&#8217;s internet installment, which includes an analysis of the reasons why the comic book periodical is and remains a necessary component to the &#8230; <a title=\"Comics in serial form: Necessary and vital\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/comics-in-serial-form-necessary-and\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Comics in serial form: Necessary and vital\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trade-paperbacks-and-graphic-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}