She, along with Deb Aoki, is also doing a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to «giving a shit about Japanese comics within
the larger comics industry,» and that alone is worth buying both of them a dinner.
Not exact matches
«I've said this before, and believe it strongly, the ability to appear on air to bring these great
comics to a
large audience helps grow the
industry one reader at a time.
When he sat down to talk to me about
Comic Con's importance to the future of entertainment, he explained that digital distribution was the single
largest growth segment in the
industry.
Perhaps there's some bias on my part as the editor of an indie
comics blog, but I would argue that, more often than not, that's where true innovation in this
industry tends to originate, amongst the artists who are not constrained by the wants, desires, and politics of
large corporations.
The print
comics industry earned more than $ 700 million in 2012 — you can see how it breaks down by category here — http://blog.comichron.com/2013/02/overall-print-
comics-market-topped-700.html — and sales in
comics shops are the
largest portion of that — and were up again in 2013.
San Francisco, CA, April 4, 2012 — VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the
largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, has announced that two of its critically acclaimed manga (graphic novel) series have been nominated for the 2012 Will Eisner Comics
Industry Awards, as announced by
Comic - Con International on April 4, 2012.
The company bought the
largest book discovery site GoodReads and now own a huge percentage of the digital
comic industry with the purchase of Comixology.
The world's
largest children's publisher has also become known as one of the top
industry leaders in children's digital content, and on the same day that Pocket God released its free
comics, Scholastic announced its partnership with LeapFrog to bring the award - winning and bestselling Magic School Bus series to LeapPad and Leapster Explorer devices.
Comixology currently has a similar deal to sell exclusive single issue
comics with DC, the
industry's second
largest publisher accounting for nearly half of all
comic sales.
The past 20 years have been specifically depressing when it comes to how the
comics industry, particularly what we think of as «mainstream»
comics and «art -
comics», have regarded the massive changes that have been happening in the
larger medium of
comics and graphic novels, and their perception and place in North America.
Free
Comic Book Day began in 2002 and is coordinated by the
industry's single
largest distributor, Diamond
Comic Distributors.