Comments on: Comics Journal to beef up print, Web presence

By: Geoffrey Long

Geoffrey Long — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:26:50 +0000

Hey, Chris – I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the letter actually says that “we can pretty much guarantee that no ‘issue’ will be less than $19.99″, not “a single issue will never cost more than $19.99″ as noted above. Still, as I understand it, these ‘issues’ will actually be books. Charging over twenty bucks for each volume in a series of huge, rich, beautiful books isn’t that shocking (nor that difficult to swallow, speaking as a fan of huge, rich, beautiful books).

By: Gnubeutel

Gnubeutel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:39:36 +0000

Exactly this trend was the reason why i dropped my TCJ subscription a few years ago.
The issues got bigger and bigger. Too many essays by kids right out of literature class, describing in detail a panel sequence that was printed next to the text or – as it often happened – three pages away from where it was mentioned.
And not rarely the news had five pages of minute by minute court room recounts that could have been condensed into two paragraphs. I still have a years worth of unread Comics Journal magazines on my shelves.