Posted on 09/21/2010 5:56:35 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
[T]he Aug. 2010 comic sales were down 17 percent from one year earlier, the steepest year-over-year sales slide since the 19 percent drop in May 2009...Only time will tell if this is an aberration or the sign of a steepening slide for the sequential art industry....the most popular comic book in the country sold a little over 90,000 copies nationwide. That's a smaller circulation than many regional newspapers.
As many people know, comic books used to have sales figures in the millions. Even as late as 1996, an issue of X-men had a circulation more twice what it is now.
I'm sure there are many reason for the decline. Still, I have to wonder if the mainstream companies' strong pro-Obama, pro-liberal, bias isn't a contributing factor.
Since 2009, mainstream comic books, especially from industry leader Marvel, have gone out of their way to laud the president and attack his detractors. The company even went so far as to publish a story where Captain America all but declared the Tea Party to be a group of racists.
At any given time, approximately one-third to one-half of the country supports conservatives and/or republican policies. With this in mind, any sane business would have to stop and consideration whether alienating half their potential customer base is a good thing.
It's entirely possible that, as the bloom comes off the Obama rose, entertainment companies that continue to try and shove the president's policies down the throats of their audiences may see their fortunes fade just as quickly as those of the Democrat party.
check the link! I was an avid reader, but never subscribed.
Flaming Carrot was the last great comic book hero. After him, there was nothing.
It’s pretty much why I no longer buy Spider-Man or Captain America. Marvel’s “Noir” series are worse than propaganda. That and the writing has gotten crappier and the books have gotten thinner. I pulled some of my 1970’s era Incredible Hulks out of storage and I couldn’t believe how thick they used to be.
Sure is...there were morons out there paying upwards of $100 PER COPY for this issue of Spider-Man within a few days of its release. Marvel reprinted the crap out of this issue, and made a fortune. Fans? Screwed again by their own stupidity, as eBay clearly indicates...you can't GIVE these away now. (Just saw an ad elsewhere offering the hardcover collection of this crap at 75% OFF cover price. No takers, natch...)
I suspect a lot of the fall off in comic book sales is much more simple: no places to buy comic books. They are being dragged down by the death of other media, such as newspapers and magazines. Independent bookstores, and even some of the major chains are closing.
The comic book companies could prove this while boosting their sales, by just sponsoring a few small bookstores that feature comic books, near some of the more populated, middle and upper middle class neighborhoods with lots of kids.
Then, create incentives for the kids to go to those bookstores. These do not have to be expensive, just enticing. Hopefully these little hole in the wall stores will pay for themselves soon enough, so the total cost to the parent company would be tiny.
Only then would it become obvious that all this Obama bulldada is costing them money. Their own readers would tell them to cut that b.s. out.
Well, don't know if the link dumped the pic or if FR Mods did ... but not taking any chances with reposting the photo again, so moved it to here, with a link only:
1974 MAD "Number One Ecch Magazine"
View at your own peril ..... /laughs
Holy Lord.
No wonder they are losing out.
Some have pointed to video games. But there are other factors: competition in essentially the same medium that doubtless is not showing up in “comic book” sales statistics—translated Japanese manga and graphic novels (both of American and Japanese origin).
>>explicit hentai comics<<
Now the otakus get out of moms basement for Comic-con only.
:)
Well, I seem to remember that one, so my kid must have had it also!
June
OMG, I have to go dig my copy out.
I haven’t thought of that book in years!!!
Unless they can get bus fare to Dragoncon or Balticon, yeah.
Ah yes, back in the good old days when the Earth was populated with the kind of colorful creatures that you’d have to drink a quart of Old Overcoat to see nowadays! :) I loved Bored of the Rings. I bet I’ve read it 5-6 times over the years. One of the funniest books ever, particularly for those who read the Tolkein books before discovering the Harvard Lampoon version.
I had an original print, like your photo, and a friend borrowed it and lost it. He bought me a far less desirable reprint that looks nothing like the original.
Like I said, I've been buying comics and Previews since the early 1990s, and I have NEVER seen such lickspittle laudatory overexposure of a living "celebrity" in all those years, before BHO.
This crap leveled off dramatically in March 2010, and since then there have been a few issues of Previews in which there was either no BHO stuff, or I overlooked it-but you sure couldn't overlook the BHO cranked out immediately after 11/2008.
Forgive me, FRiend. Could not resist winding you up a bit, as the Brits say.
Gracious!!!
LOL!! Got that right!
Perhaps after electing children to run the government, people have waken up to the fact it is time to grow up and put away childish things.
Such were the little visual games that MAD would play back in it's heyday, and this one was a real whopper! /laughs
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