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Post by owaddled on Dec 15, 2023 20:44:20 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 What if people that buy the whole enchilada could vote to see which ones get printed and a discount on the final printed version?
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Post by jporcellino on Dec 15, 2023 21:07:24 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? Probably a little bit on my Patreon page? I've only co-taught one class so far, which was sitting in on an established Intro to Creative Writing class, where I helped incorporate some comics reading and exercises into the syllabus. In a few weeks I'll start teaching my own strictly comics course... The textbook is going to be the first volume of Ivan Brunetti's Yale anthology. The class is in the English Dept at Beloit College, but is cross listed with both Art and Media Studies. It'll be loosely based on the weeklong workshops I've given in the past. I'm pretty excited about it!
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Post by jporcellino on Dec 15, 2023 21:09:18 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 voilĂ , 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 I occasionally think about listing them individually for sale online, where I'd certainly make a LOT more money, but the thought of dealing with that is even more depressing than a house full of unread books.
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