Winter of This Content
A preview of what you can expect from The Indirect Market during this season.
The Indirect Market begins in earnest next week, but before we kick things off, I wanted to do a quick post about what you can expect.
101 | I’m going to be focusing on different themes in different chunks of time to provide a bit of focus - and to start, we’re going to be tackling the basics. The 101 series will be focusing on the foundation and give you a glimpse on how things work and move in the comic industry as it stands. Articles will run here on this Substack as they are ready, and will provide the basics before we try and blow things up.
You Read These With Your Eyes | A regular series focusing on one or two new releases that are particularly notable for the week. This feature will not be a review of the comic itself, but of the presentation, and how it relates to the art of connecting people with their new favourite book. This will appear almost every Wednesday morning, offering insight on how retailers (might) engage with different titles.
Previously | I have an extensive volume of comic industry reference material, and in the Previously feature, we’ll be visiting times past to learn lessons both good and bad. A good chunk of this will feature us digging through things like old Comic Retailer magazines, reference books, and online publications like the Matt Fraction co-production Savant.
Articles at The Beat | With an aim of “twice a month”, I’ll probably be posting ten articles at The Beat over the course of this year. (Listen, I know who I am, and how I engage with deadlines.) These will generally be timely, and focus on something important effecting the industry. The first article will be arriving on Tuesday, January 24th and will be focusing on what the comic industry should be doing in 2023, and what the comic industry will do in 2023. Those two things are very different.
Meanwhile | A collection of content either about the comic book industry, or something that is relevant to the comic book industry from other sources. This will be a batch of recommended reads or listens, with commentary.
We kick things off this Monday.
Talk with you soon,
-B.