Some thoughts I had yesterday, summarized here since twitter’s not really the best venue for a longer contextual conversation:
comics: if 100,000 people read the superperson comic book, that is not the #comicsmarket. that is THE MARKET FOR THAT COMIC.
— Ivan Brandon (@IvanBrandon) January 25, 2012

you are no more entitled to ANY PIECE OF THAT AUDIENCE than you are to any …

I have finally on my deathbed compiled my year’s list. Here are the movies I saw and liked in the year of our lord 2011:
1: The Tree of Life
2: Melancholia
3: Drive
4: La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In)
5: 13 Assassins
6: The Trip
7: Moneyball
8: Tryannosaur
9: Hugo
10: Margin call
Runner up: Rampart
Movies I didn’t see that might conceivably have made the …

I think there’s a problem of context with a lot of the conversations about pricing of comics. People can agree, maybe, that $4 is enough to repel a casual consumer, but that doesn’t mean that $3 will attract them. It’s not a magic switch that reverses polarity.
All you’ve done, hopefully… is made a tenable entrance point. So that if (and …

if you’re american, to get to istanbul you need a visa. maybe even if you aren’t. for $20, not lira, not euro, they put a sticker in your book and then they stamp it.
it’s a big airport, very clean, the van that picks us up has captain’s chairs that face both ways. the route’s ornate, bright. the parapets of mosques …

there’s an ongoing debate, for a bunch of years now. there are numbers that circulate every month, inaccurate numbers, people track them, people use that flawed “data” to comment on what they see as the progress or decline on the list. a lot of comics professionals are against this, for a lot of reasons. in my case, for my books, …

shout out from the great john hodgman:
“One major exception=@ivanbrandon‘s MEN OF WAR. That’s something I would share with ANYBODY.” -john hodgman
https://twitter.com/hodgman/status/127766054603730944

4:30-6:30 PM Sep 21, 2011

7-9 PM Sep 21, 2011

i wanted to take a minute to talk about tr!ckster this year, about why i invested so much of my attention to it, about why i think it deserves yours.
i’ve been at the san diego comic con for over 10 years now. it’s been an immeasurable part of my professional life… it’s in a lot of ways my comics mecca. …

starting tonight i’ll be in san diego for comic con. i’ll be doing VERY few appearances, but you’ll probably find me wandering TR!CKSTER fairly often.
(at the San Diego Wine and Culinary Center 200 Harbor Drive, Suite 120) feel free to come and say hi if you see me, whether or not i’m signing.
here, however, is my official schedule:
TUESDAY NIGHT 7/19/11:
TR!CKSTER OPENING PARTY 5PM-12AM …