Comic Book Distribution Quotes

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

The '90s was a great period for the fans that were collecting at that time. Comics sold at an all-time high and reached the largest audience in our modern age, and the energy in our business was fantastic. Any bad feelings from fans of that era were a result of the poor delivery of the product we sold them.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.

Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I think the biggest challenge is going to be finding a place that sells comics. Ideally, you want someone to come out of a movie theater, look across the street, see a newsstand, walk in and find a copy of the 'X-Men' sitting there. But that's not what's going to happen.

If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.