Survery Sunday: Last Survery Roundup

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So on the 12th we asked just what you thought was going to happen with comics!  Our results were:

Comics are going through a lot of changes, from ecomics to DC's reorg, from e-manga to webcomics. So what's the future of comics as an art for?

5.3% Comics are going to move to electronic, with occasional TPB and big-sale issues.

10.5% Comics are going to actually stay in print, with e-comics as supplemental income at best.

15.8% Comics are going to go electronic for the most part, but in a mix of mediums, from web to PDF to e-reader.

0% Comics are going to go electronic, but consolodate around one or two formats.

68.4% Comics are going to end up in a variety of formats, physical and electronic, that vary from company to company, title to title.

0% I have no idea.

So what did we learn:

  1. Most people here think comics are going to end up in many formats.
  2. No one in the poll thought comics would go totally electronic
  3. No one said "I have no idea."

 

– Steven Savage

 

The Big Adaptors

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So, HBO, flush from well-deserved success with their adaption of 'Game of Thrones' is looking at the difficult-sounding task of adapting Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' into a six season series.

Showtime has it's epic series, of course, as you know from hearing any reviews.

It seems the movie/premium channels are getting awful ambitious, from 'Spartacus' to 'The Walking Dead' and more.  Very ambitious.  Curiously ambitious.

I want to speculate that they may be onto something, and that movie channels may be uniquely positioned to become The Big Adaptors.  Their future may well be adapting works to films/television.

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Frustration Friday: Ignorance Isn’t Equal To Knowledge

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In case you haven't heard, the U.S. (at least when I write this) hasn't raised its debt ceiling as it's done  . . . well, forever.  This is kind of bad, when you realize we can default on our loans, crash the credit-worthiness of our country, screw up the bond market, etc.  You can go and do a quick search on the web to get the idea of what's going on.

Of course when you default on your debts, you get into trouble.  Countries get in trouble economically as well.  Yet, if you also follow the news, some politicians and pundits figure this is a good thing.  Yeah.  I know.

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