Ash Aiwase interviews AiT/Planet Lar publisher Larry Young for Your Mom’s Basement. Lots of good stuff here, from Black Diamond to updates on AiT media projects to Young’s response to the whole Diamond/barcode thing:
Jon Proctor’s cover aesthetic - not unlike Becky Cloonan’s approach to the Demo covers - has given Black Diamond a unified look on the stands. Does Diamond’s new barcode mandate change the approach that you and Jon are taking to covers?
Naw, all that did is make sure we don’t do any more floppies. I think we’ll see PREVIEWS getting thinner because of this, though, and more webcomics and POD things appearing.
Really? Why’s that?
Well, because it costs so much more money to slap the UPCs on for monthlies. For us, why bother? Just do OGNs, as we already have the infrastructure in place.
