My monthly “Life in Comics” column for Publishers Weekly went up last week — it’s here. September’s column is about independent comics publishers having to compete with big publisher-backed graphic novel imprints. Last month’s column was about how the infrastructure of the comics industry was built to support a model that is increasingly irrelevant and unworkable.
Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about the challenges of being an independent comics publisher because, well, it’s a challenging time. Those in publishing know this, and those in comics publishing know it particularly.
