Although this article from Sunday’s Houston Chronicle doesn’t cover as much creative ground as did last week’s Newsarama piece on the end of Strangers in Paradise, I thought the interview with Robyn and Terry Moore was definitely worth reading because it discusses the economics of self-publishing comics as well.
Wizard editor Brian Cunningham gets its right, crediting the success of Moore’s Paradise not only to good timing — it debuted smack in the middle of a mid 90s supernova-like surge of comics publishing — but sticking to it after the not-unexpected and much-sooner-than-later bust without a break for nearly 15 years.
And it’s paid off with an average print run of some 12,000 per issue for Strangers and the Moore’s Abstract Studios grossing more than $500,000 last year alone.
