It’s not much of a secret that basically all new comics are out there in the ether in digital form within a day or two of hitting the stands, and it’s not terribly hard to dig up a lot of older comics, too […] [+]
I worked in a comic book store in the mid-’80s and loathed the customers who came up to the counter with their own plastic bags and acid-free cardboard backing boards to begin the process of preserving their investments right away. [+]
New mainstream comics about anything other than superheroes aren’t entirely obsolete, but they’re definitely anomalies; if there are three war comics running at the same time, it’s like some kind of harmonic convergence. [+]
There is no way of getting around it: if you are going to look honestly at American comics, you are going to encounter superheroes. [+]
Unsurprisingly, the maleness of comics culture has been self-perpetuating: if reading (or collecting) comics is understood as “something that guys do,” then the woman in the comics store is an anomaly. [+]
The language of comics criticism is still young and scrawny — it’s so underdeveloped that there’s no good adjective that means “comics-ish”. [+]