Pipeline Comics

How can Marvel or DC successfully create a line of original graphic novels? How is it that they've failed this long at it? What can they learn from both the French publishing model and the Amazon Kindle model?

I've solved all of these problems in one short podcast. I should get a consultant's fee for this kind of work, but instead I give it all away.

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My streak is now past 590 days! Il chante sous la pluie!

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There are parallels between the North American and Franco-Belgian publishing market. Take, for example, the way serialized stories are collected into larger volumes in addition to albums. This is the story of how Jean Dupuis took the unsold issues of Le Journal de Spirou and created a secondary market for them that helped grow the brand.

It's a model that would be repeated by Spirou's competition. I did a whole article explaining how it worked for Pilote Journal, for example, complete with video.

I hope to get a hole of a Spirou collection someday so I can do something similar with it. For now, this podcast will have to do.

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My streak is now past 555 days! La pharmacie west ouvert.

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Uderzo gets a menhir and the side of a three story building in Angouleme:

• https://www.actuabd.com/Angouleme-se-pare-aux-couleurs-d-Albert-Uderzo

Spirou et Fantasio gets a new creative team:

• https://www.actuabd.com/Un-nouveau-trio-pour-reprendre-la-serie-mere-de-Spirou-et-Fantasio

From 2018, "Spirou and Toxic Fandom," in which I discuss the issues Vehlmann talked about with fandom and his Spirou run:

• https://www.pipelinecomics.com/spirou-and-toxic-fandom/

The René Goscinny Obelisk in Angoulême:

• https://www.pipelinecomics.com/rene-goscinny-statue-obelisk-bust/

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My daily streak is now past 550! J'ai fini met devoirs. Maintenant, je joue aves mes amis.

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It's also my nightmare website.

But if I ever decided to go "Bigger Is Better," what kind of website would I create to deliver the maximum traffic and create a singular source of European Comics news and reviews like you've never seen before?

Spoilers: It might remind you a little bit of CBR from the early 2000s. I might be biased in that direction, though...

This podcast is my brainstorming session.

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My daily streak is now past 545! Je lis ce livre chaque soir.

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Comic book prices in the open market are going through the roof. Is this the start of another boom and bust cycle, fueled by speculators? Or is this the new normal in a world where the internet gives us the tools to do interesting things, like arbitrage? I'll explain...

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My streak is now past 540 days! Je ne travaille pas a Paris; Alice et Paul travaillent a Paris.

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Hard to believe, but "X-Force" #1 came out 30 years ago this past week. I feel so old just saying that, but I'm trying not to think about it too much.

Now, since this is Rob Liefeld we're talking about, there's a small bit of controversy in Twitter-land.

For some reason, people want to rain on Liefeld's parade. One went so far as to cite one website's Top 10 list of Best Selling Single Comics of All Time that has, to put it mildly, some faulty logic at its very core. This podcast is me correcting that fault and pointing out its intellectual bankruptcy.

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In this special bonus episode of the podcast, it's Mike Wieringo's birthday. While I never interviewed him for the original incarnation of the Pipeline Comics podcast, I did talk to his partner in "Tellos", Todd Dezago. In that interview, we discussed Tellos for a few minutes, and Ringo's "Captain Marvel" issue also gets a shout out.

To listen to an actual Mike Wieringo interview, listen to his appearance on a very early episode of John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast:

http://www.wordballoon.com/media/WBmikewieringo.mp3

Todd Dezago Announces "Tellos" Compendium Edition:

https://www.cbr.com/todd-dezago-announces-tellos-compendium-edition/

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In this podcast, I make the case that mint comics are an amazing rarity in the world and so rare that, yes, they probably do deserve to be priced ridiculously high.

This, I imagine, will not be a popular podcast. ;-)

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My daily streak is now past 530! Les enfants jouent a la plage. Je nage a la piscine.

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He's a robot Yojimbo in an abandoned theme park fighting some paramilitary dudes with big guns. What more do you need to know?

It's fun!

Since I recorded this podcast a couple weeks back, the second issue of the series is already out, with the third on its way in the next month. Check it out on Izneo.com or Comixology.com

The review this podcast is based on can be found here:

https://www.pipelinecomics.com/yojimbot-v1-metal-silence-part-1/

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My daily streak is now almost 530 days! Au début du cours, les etudiants ne comprennent rien.

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It's a good idea to take your head out of the ground and look up once in a while.

Or, if you prefer a different metaphor, it's good to look outside your bubble.

I recently checked out the untranslated books available at Izneo.com/fr and found a few titles that look good. I hope they get translated someday.

This is their story.

Check out "The Lost Ages" in English today:

https://www.izneo.com/en/european-comics/fantasy/the-lost-ages-38144

Learning French: I'm using DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends! My daily streak is now past 520! J'apprends l'histoire à l'école.

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