Comics and the media...

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

Neil Gaiman: ...Partly because we've already done the hip and trendy thing. We had our moment in the late '80s when everybody went, "Wow! Comics aren't just for kids." The trouble is, the next time a journalist goes back to an editor and says, "Great, can we do a story about comics?" They go, "No, we did one." Nobody ever seems to do that with movies. They don't say, "Well, hey, we reviewed a movie is 1988. Look, it says here we reviewed a movie in 1988. Look, it says here we reviewed a novel in 1991, our readers will be bored with it." But that really is the phenomenon you get with comics. Most papers say if they did it once, then they did it.

[anthony the ghost]

hmmmm...i havent noticed that really. i think if a paper is going to review em, they will do it on a semi regular basis. at least trades or the like.

[Flonk]

My paper does Comic of the Week on the same page they do the DVD reviews, music and books coming out that week, ect.

[mike black]

Ryan, I think this ship sailed sometime yesterday.

[Shannon Chenoweth]

You know what has started to annoy me? That EW hasn't reviewed comics in a few weeks. What's up with that? I know they don't do it every week, but its been awhile since the last one.

RC

[joe peeler]

there are some british papers that do a regular graphic novel section right?

in general, though, comics get little love from the mainstream.

hell, i got a skateboarder kid and his mom today to buy amazing joy buzzards and they are seriously contemplating getting the big bone volume. it doesn't take a lot to sell them on stuff since the books are so good, but if they weren't coming into the shop to get new trucks or wheels or whatever they'd have no idea the books even existed.

[Mark Andrew Smith]

Yeah I agree with that, I think that that comic stores are going to have to be mixed with some other pop culture stuff for kids, wether it is skating, music, or a game store, in order to get NEW readers. It's rare for someone to accidentally stumble into a shop and get into comics.

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

I was thinking about this yesterday.



Comics are in that trendy cycle again.


The only reason the media is covering them at all now is because movies based off comics are doing relatively well...

[You Killed Hawkeye]

You know what has started to annoy me? That EW hasn't reviewed comics in a few weeks. What's up with that? I know they don't do it every week, but its been awhile since the last one.

RC

I thought they had that in their supplemental magazine, along with Video Games and other stuff no one cares about.

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

bump.