Comments on: Comics vs. “Everything Else” http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/01/25/comics-vs-everything-else/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Sun, 19 May 2013 11:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: K-Box http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/01/25/comics-vs-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-714413 K-Box Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:11:22 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30801#comment-714413 "adolescent stories that are to be outgrown" Remind me how many millions of copies Twilight and Harry Potter have sold over the past several years, again? “adolescent stories that are to be outgrown”

Remind me how many millions of copies Twilight and Harry Potter have sold over the past several years, again?

]]> By: George http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/01/25/comics-vs-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-714401 George Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:26:49 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30801#comment-714401 I try to get my 9 year old son interested in comics every chance I get. No dice. He'll skim through them to pacify me I guess, and he loves the movies and cartoons, but he can take them or leave them. They can't compete with the xbox. He does like the Diary of a wimpy kid books though. Do kids still collect baseball cards? I try to get my 9 year old son interested in comics every chance I get. No dice. He’ll skim through them to pacify me I guess, and he loves the movies and cartoons, but he can take them or leave them. They can’t compete with the xbox. He does like the Diary of a wimpy kid books though. Do kids still collect baseball cards?

]]> By: ComicsCritic http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/01/25/comics-vs-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-714369 ComicsCritic Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:22:26 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=30801#comment-714369 While I think piracy takes away from any industry, though entertainment is usually the hardest hit, the fact remains that comics are a niche market because of it's illegitimacy. By that, I mean that there are not that many people who consider comics a legitimate form of either art or literature. If more people considered comics as a medium that bridges the gap between books and tv/movies, and not as adolescent stories that are to be outgrown, the industry would be thriving. Changing that mode of thinking is what the industry as a whole should be rallying around. Piracy will always be around, and piracy in small markets always have a bigger impact, but it can't be blamed for all the damage that the industry has taken over the years. While I think piracy takes away from any industry, though entertainment is usually the hardest hit, the fact remains that comics are a niche market because of it’s illegitimacy. By that, I mean that there are not that many people who consider comics a legitimate form of either art or literature. If more people considered comics as a medium that bridges the gap between books and tv/movies, and not as adolescent stories that are to be outgrown, the industry would be thriving.

Changing that mode of thinking is what the industry as a whole should be rallying around. Piracy will always be around, and piracy in small markets always have a bigger impact, but it can’t be blamed for all the damage that the industry has taken over the years.

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