2%...that's barely enough to compete with inflation.
And this despite the fact that they're (allegedly) holding the prices down, introducing a more diverse cast, and doing pretty much everything to get new readers.
How do we save the industry?
Why are comic sales barely increasing?
ditch floppies and adopt the euroalbum format
no-one wants to buy floppies online and no-one wants to go to a comic store
>all other genres going up
good. also someone should bring back /croc/ i really enjoyed the comics that were showcased in those threads to the point of actually reading comics for the first time that wasnt just a 1 off chapter of literally anything.
Make your own threads, nobody is stopping you.
Why would you invest time and money into something that is eventually going to get retconed or rebooted? Never mind the fact that the quality of the book could dramatically deteriorate depending on who the author or artist on the book is.
mangas are comics too
That's bookscan
The direct market actually did see significant growth
Incredebly bad format and far too niche with how they're sold. Meaning its hard to attract new readers, and old readers dont like stuff constantly being changed so they also dont tend to care.
Add that comic piracy is genunly far too easy and you get the result.
It is moronicly expensive for what gives 6 minutes of entertainment at best. There's a lot better ways to spend money than on single issues.
It's simply not worth it and it just rots later on.
Because floppies are not a good deal for how little content they have. People who aren't already invested in comics don't want to buy them, and they don't want to wait 6 months for the trade to come out.
Additionally, despite being owned by some of the biggest media giants out there, they don't get promoted at all.
My question is how well do manga collections like shonen jump? I never got why you want to buy them? You dont want half the stories. But i can see that it is good to get pitches out or see what people are interested in.
Jump and other manga publications have non moronic e-reading formats at reasonable prices.
>read batman for 5 years
>batman becomes gay out of the blue
Is a waste of time to start any comic
Make new shit.
Make shit that people who aren't Twitter addicts and self-hating white people will actually want to fricking read.
It's literally that simple.
>makes new shit
>makes it interesting and unique
>no one reads it because people would rather read and complain about whatever social political inserts was put in a single 2 by 2 inch panel
if i learned anything from gays who cry about wanting to bring back traditional 2d animation, they wont acknowledge the things that try to appeal to them
So clearly the real way to help the industry is to keep appealing to an increasingly-small group of Twitter addicts and self-hating morons while everyone else just reads manga instead.
Frick making new shit, that's bad because someone on Cinemaphile didn't acknowledge it apparently.
Manga artists are against twitter.
Anyone who's not moronic is against Twitter.
>never read twitter
Based nips.
the point is to make money and keep making money. until then thats how the industry wants things to be. until people stop being upset or zealous about fricking drawings then corps will continue to use outrage culture as a method to sell a product.
>but no one bought it
and it drummed up enough attention to not be instantly forgotten a week after release like whatever else they were selling at the time, people will talk about whatever made them upset for years and check out if the next thing will be the same shit or something different.
>the point is to make money and keep making money.
And therein lies the issue, they're not making money.
2021 was the best year on record for printed comic/graphic novel sales in 20 years, and capeshit saw minimal growth.
The industry needs to get its head out of its ass and realize that people aren't going to pay money for garbage, it's VERY simple to just go to RCO and find whatever garbage you're looking to laugh at and read it for free, outrage sales don't work in the age of simple and easy piracy.
>they're not making money.
The comics you moron, no one who watches capeshit movies gives a frick about capeshit comics.
I know this is bait, but non-capeshit is increasing by 22% in one year. I think that tells you that consumers are just tired of the same old stories.
Because you don’t get a full story in a single issue anymore
>introducing a more diverse cast,
they're adding gays and trannies, which are an irrelevant number of the US population. Hispanics are the 2nd biggest ethnicity in the US yet very few comics characters are Hispanics (there are more Black folks than Hispanics).
Americans still haven't realized mestizos are a thing. To them there are two races, black and white.
Do marvel and dc make profits? Perhaps they should fold and be replaced by the movied
>introducing a more diverse cast,
>doing pretty much everything to get new readers.
Pick one.
Potential readers aren't gonna be hooked by Diversity(TM). They're gonna be hooked by good stories and interesting characters. The push for diversity is just a lazy substitute.
Comics don't have wide appeal anymore, they're basically all made for Twitter, gay people, and liberal white women.
America is like 30% Hispanic and comics still have basically nothing that appeals to heterosexual Hispanic readers.
The action sucks, the women are beat, the dialogue is fricking terrible, the stories are uninteresting, it's all just shit made for people to excise their victim complex in a public forum, and that's why you see so many Japanese names in the top seller lists.
>Oshimi Shuzo
Huh...
That's an unexpected name to see on a top-seller list.
Comparing the increase in units sold versus inflation is a real misunderstanding of either inflation or sales or something.
>doing pretty much everything to get new readers
They're really not, though. They come up with gimmicks, but it's still almost exclusively capeshit. The type of consumer that's been cultivated by the direct market is mostly averse to change, too, so they're mostly half-assed attempts.
Reduce reliance on the direct market, expand into new genres, and raise awareness of comics that exist in the romance/non-cape adventure/crime/horror/etc. niches. There's a lot of good stuff being done outside of capeshit, but the average person on the street only thinks of Batman and Spider-man.
I wonder how the upcoming recession will affect the industry.
It's a shame Cinemaphile doesn't have half the janitor/moderator interest as Cinemaphile. If this Concern Troll thread was made on Cinemaphile, it would live about 30 seconds and get the OP a nice ban.