But with the development of electronic publishing, the automatic association of comic books with print has been challenged. Thus, most of the social practices of comic book collecting have been based around the materiality of comic books. Even if a collector orders an issue online through eBay or elsewhere, the issue still must be packaged and transported physically to the collector.
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In addition to the material nature of the books themselves, comic book collecting often affects the collectors physically, as putting together a collection, if one didn’t buy the series from when it was first published, can involve years of visits to flea markets, garage sales, used bookstores, comic conventions, and comic book stores, among other places, in order to find all the issues of the series one is collecting. Individually, the typical printed comic book-say an issue of The Flash-can seem insubstantial, but a monthly accumulation of Flash issues over a number of years can fill a box, and a comic book collection of many titles can fill a room and beyond as it grows.Ĭonsequently, anyone who collects comic books has to deal with this factor of materiality, emphasized further by collected comics often being bagged and boarded for preservation purposes, and classified according to grades of physical condition from mint to poor for commercial or trade purposes. As a result, I, or anyone else who has ever moved a comic book collection, especially a sizable one, can testify to its material presence, particularly its weight. Helping a friend move, I once filled up the back of a pickup truck with comic books. This paper explores the possible consequences for the comic book collecting hobby and the comics industry as a subculture traditionally based in print begins to mutate in the digital age. With the advent of DVD-ROMs published by Graphic Imaging Technology and other companies collecting decades of such titles as The Amazing Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four on a single DVD, comic book collectors and general readers may be more and more tempted to read on screen in the future. Without further ado.Once a quest that often took years of visits to flea markets, garage sales, used bookstores, and the local comics shop, collecting an entire run of a comic book title may become as easy as downloading a file from the Internet. I have been unbelievably welcomed here and I appreciate it. My Greek friends, thank you all for helping me bring Vassilis story into the light. Give me bit and I promise it will be up in its entirety. Unfortunately I am having a little technical problem with the blog on the site. the whole Q and A will be posted at the FCC blog.
the Q and A article with Vassilis ran a little long. And I am still researching for the upcoming article on Kabanas books and hoping both MORIBUS and X_for_Xepeta will be co-authors with me. Id also like to thank X_for_xepeta in helping me wade thru everything initially and getting me in contact with MORIBUS in the first place. Lots of new things going on with us! We have a forum now dedicated to all things "foreign" comic related here. I have to thank my buddy Tim for helping me get this thing out.
As managing editor of FCC I hope to share the amazing stories of both Vassilis and Gustavo all over the American comic journalistic landscape. All while things in my personal life got in the way.īut I tell ya what didn't get in the way! Vassilis AKA MORIBUS was amazing throughout this whole thing! My goal is to get a copy of issue #4 in Stan Lees hands. My god this issue was a real bitch to finally get out! I had to redesign and rebuild the entire magazine from scratch.
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