Mike Miller: He’s not all about Christianity anymore:
Five secular comic book series that were left out in the cold when Alias Comics decided to concentrate on the Christian bookstore market (see “Alias Refocuses Efforts“) have found a new home at Abacus Comics, a new company headed by Alias Comics’ Executive Director Mike S. Miller. Three of Miller’s own titles, Imaginaries, Lullaby, and Sixgun Samurai will move to Abacus along with two Mortal World Entertainment books, Kord and Harley, and Soulless.
Abacus already has a website, with some interesting ground rules for what they’ll publish:
Comics have to be ongoing series. Mini-series come and go, and no-one cares a year later. With our ‘ongoing only’ policy, we give fans time to care about the characters we create.
“Mini-series come and go, and no-one cares a year later”? Isn’t that almost as if they’re admitting that they can’t do good mini-series? I mean, if the mini is good, people will still care a year later…
October 26th, 2006 at 11:28 am
WHY IS THIS GUY STILL AROUND?
October 26th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Ignoring the Alias/Abacus thing for a moment, I have to agree with Miller’s assessment. Outside of the Big Events, minis DON’T matter. I cannot remember the last time I picked up a mini-series that wasn’t either a Big Event or a spin-off from such.
Can you?
October 26th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Off the top of my head: Supermarket from IDW. Local from Oni. The Escapists from Dark Horse. The Other Side from Vertigo… See, now I can’t think of what I’ve even been reading lately…
October 26th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Miller is following retailer advise on this one.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Aren’t the most successful indie properties basically borne out of mini-series? If not when initially published in mini form, then once they are wrapped as a tidy trade/GN?
October 26th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
People stopped caring about Watchmen 20 years ago.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:04 am
Just an update, I’ve decided not to run the Mortal World books for various reasons.
Wish them the best of luck wherever they land, though.