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Post by mamalips on Sept 17, 2023 21:30:40 GMT
Shortbox Comics Fair - 100 new comics coming out every year in October....but it's all digital only, so I just have zero interest. I can't be the only one?? All that work and no print copies? It puts me off it for some reason.
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Post by nate on Sept 18, 2023 2:53:33 GMT
Can’t do digital. At all. Just not how I want to read work created for print.
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Post by adamszym on Sept 18, 2023 17:14:14 GMT
I certainly don't prefer to read stuff digitally, but I'm glad the show exists because a lot of artists do very very well in it. From what I hear sales from that are much better than most people's best sales at shows, and if that financial success allows those artists to then be able to fund a print version of that same comic then I'm all for it.
Digital will never come close to holding a book in my hand though, that's for sure.
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Post by awfulquiet on Sept 18, 2023 17:23:59 GMT
I guess that's how i'll "wreck my cred." I have no problem with digital. I love it. I prefer physical but I read a ton of digital. Especially manga. The availability of stuff on Hoopla, and to a lesser extent Comixology, really helped bring me back to loving to read comics when I was starting to fall away in the last decade.
But really, for manga, I would read way less of it if it wasn't for the Jump and Viz apps. I don't have shelf space or the disposable income for dozens of tanokobans of multiple series. But I will very often buy physical copies of the stuff I read first digitally and really love.
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Post by robindh on Sept 18, 2023 17:39:03 GMT
I have no problem reading digital comics, really (though I'll concede my preference is analog and it helps to see the page as a holistic unit). It's just that I, for some reason, have come to dislike paying for digital-only comics, even if they aren't costly. I acknowledge that that doesn't make much sense.
I'll probably buy stuff from the fair, a few things have caught my eye. Namely: the Sterte, Furler (Bark Bark Girl is as close as we've gotten to a perfect YA book in the last decade), Wallander, and the Joe Sparrow autobio
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 13, 2023 0:55:06 GMT
This is sort of a wreck your cred thing and also related to the discussion of digital comics and the Viz app immediately above -- I started rereading One Piece from the beginning a few weeks ago. I was thinking about it for the first time in years because of the Netflix show (which I haven't watched), I was thinking about shonen manga in general (I'm sure I'm not the only voracious early/mid-2000s scanlation reader here, oh for the salad days of toriyamaworld.com), and I was curious to try the Viz app.
And it's great, of course! It's fun! I, uh, really like Oda's nibwork. He has such a vibrant line and there's so much crosshatching whenever characters are dirty or bloodied which is most of the time. There's such a distance between the energy of his drawings and the perfect, lifeless speedlines or even the slight overrendering in most backgrounds. Most shonen authors have a great line early on but lose it over time, presumably because they're drawing less themselves and/or just giving in to the assembly line nature of the work. Oda seems to avoid that.
The dense, talky pages are so tiresome but I just zoom right by them. I have 700 chapters to go, after all.
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Post by eheitner on Dec 13, 2023 14:09:36 GMT
Sometimes, I look at my bookshelves so stuffed with comics that they are literally buckling (bowed out sides so the shelves start to slide off the support pins) and think to myself-- maybe I don't need to buy any new comics? I could probably spend the rest of my life just rereading the comics I have.
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Post by owaddled on Dec 13, 2023 17:40:11 GMT
Sometimes, I look at my bookshelves so stuffed with comics that they are literally buckling (bowed out sides so the shelves start to slide off the support pins) and think to myself-- maybe I don't need to buy any new comics? I could probably spend the rest of my life just rereading the comics I have. Same...except my shelves are full of comics I haven't even read once...but I keep buying new ones.
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Post by junkflower on Dec 13, 2023 18:18:58 GMT
Yeah, a history of FOMO, curiosity, and scratching the emotional itch with conspicuous consumption has left my own apartment pretty crowded.. I'm looking to shave off a good chunk of my comics and hone my buying habits this coming year. I'm reaching that intersection of age and marriage where I'm experiencing some pretty severe buyers' remorse...
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Post by owaddled on Dec 14, 2023 17:06:56 GMT
Yeah, a history of FOMO, curiosity, and scratching the emotional itch with conspicuous consumption has left my own apartment pretty crowded.. I'm looking to shave off a good chunk of my comics and hone my buying habits this coming year. I'm reaching that intersection of age and marriage where I'm experiencing some pretty severe buyers' remorse... I think it's unavoidable but I've also had donor's remorse. My LCS is far too generous and gave me store credit for the multiple tubs of books I brought in to make space when my wife moved in. I ended up buying Band For Life back (it was 50% off though) and I sometimes regret giving away my League of Extraordinary Gentlemen books...though often I don't.
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Post by castingsigils on Dec 15, 2023 13:24:14 GMT
i've got no cred to wreck so can freely admit i'm a big 90s guy and am usually well liked by store owners for ridding them of their most undesirable extreme studios books
if jordan barry-browne wasn't so cool, i'd have probably wrecked his cred when he was pulling issues of brigade for me that he found at a show
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Post by jporcellino on Dec 15, 2023 18:19:20 GMT
My collection became insane once I found In Stock Trades and their discounts, and realized that lots of publishers view books as periodicals, ie making small print runs that sell out quickly with no intention of ever reprinting. So I have a LOT of books I have never read, piled up everywhere. I also, with the idea that I'd end up teaching at some point, began buying books that I thought I "should" have, so I could use them in class if necessary.* Cue domestic discord, etc.
Last year I started making regular trips to Half Price Books with boxes of such titles. They pay a pittance, but voilà, the books disappear, just like that.
* I am teaching now, but immediately realized I don't need any of those books to do so.
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Post by owaddled on Dec 15, 2023 19:15:08 GMT
* I am teaching now, but immediately realized I don't need any of those books to do so. Have you written anywhere about how teaching has been? What are the books you did end up teaching?
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Post by castingsigils on Dec 15, 2023 19:34:08 GMT
My collection became insane once I found In Stock Trades and their discounts, and realized that lots of publishers view books as periodicals, ie making small print runs that sell out quickly with no intention of ever reprinting. So I have a LOT of books I have never read, piled up everywhere. I also, with the idea that I'd end up teaching at some point, began buying books that I thought I "should" have, so I could use them in class if necessary.* Cue domestic discord, etc. Last year I started making regular trips to Half Price Books with boxes of such titles. They pay a pittance, but voilà, the books disappear, just like that. * I am teaching now, but immediately realized I don't need any of those books to do so. i've used a similar service or just taken big piles of books to charity shops that probably could have sold for a decent amount if i could be bothered with ebay but when you want the space cleared, it becomes so unnecessarily urgent
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Post by castingsigils on Dec 15, 2023 19:39:04 GMT
Shortbox Comics Fair - 100 new comics coming out every year in October....but it's all digital only, so I just have zero interest. I can't be the only one?? All that work and no print copies? It puts me off it for some reason. there's something to the idea of shortbox comics fair but im totally with you. when i was asked for the first one, it was gonna be about 80 books sat on a gumroad page for a month which felt a bit miserable. i dont know what the answer is to make an all digital thing like that more exciting for print heads but there's gotta be something more than that
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