Posts Tagged ‘the downward spiral’

Artists Fear “Comics Apocalypse”

Some of the biggest names in indie cartooning are sounding alarms over various alt-weeklies shedding their comics (I recently wrote about how we were, sadly, ahead of the curve on that one). Max Cannon of "Red Meat" calls it a "comics apocalypse" and says that if the "humble $10 to $20 that I generally get [...]

The Upside of Village Voice Media Cutting Its Comics

In November 2007, faced with budget targets that we'd walk over hot coals to have to hit now, we decided to cut most of our comics. It saved us a little bit of money and earned us no end of pissed-off letters from fans of our onetime back-pages mainstays. Today the Minnesota Independent is reporting [...]