When you compare America to S. Korea, France, Japan, and Italy we are WAY less likely to pay for comic content. Lots of Americans want to read comics for free. Why?
Why don't Americans want to pay for comics?
When you compare America to S. Korea, France, Japan, and Italy we are WAY less likely to pay for comic content. Lots of Americans want to read comics for free. Why?
Because we've been burned too many times. That and where the frick do I even buy comics?
Because American comics are full of woke garbage, and they’re on record saying they don’t want my business.
I'm not asking why Americans buy manga more than "woke" Big 2 comics you dumb frick. I'm asking why are Americans less likely to spend money on comics in general. Webtoons for example has stated multiple times that they have a way harder time getting money from Americans compared to Koreans and the Japanese.
How many Americans read webtoons? Probably not many.
12.5 million active monthly viewers from America alone.
What are webtoons? Is it like fanfiction? Like fan mangas or original stories
It’s mostly Korean web comics. Drawn in colour and in long strips for reading them on smartphones.
Oh I've read one of those
I'm a Martial Art Villainess but I'm the Strongest!
>Stories are poorly written and drawn out.
>$5 for only about 30 pages of comic, and most of those are drawn out dogshit that doesn't properly further the story you're paying for
>Endless events that interrupt and ruin other comic books for no actual gain on the reader's part
>No communication or cooperation between authors, if an author is popular enough they can effectively end a character's entire run out of the blue if they want them for something else
>Heavily inconsistent art and writing
>They're too moronic to sell them in stores that people actually go to
Why the frick do you think?
Because they're way too expensive. Most of us have bills to pay than to waste it on overpriced trash.
Stealing and pillaging is just Amercian culture.
Huh? The comic market is growing massively in the US
Has manga influenced em
Manga market*
Source?
rather not pay for something
SHOCKER
I got into collecting within the past 2 years. Spent $700 in the last 3 weeks on comics, none of them made within the past 10 years. The new product is garbage and not worth the money.
Graphic novels or webtoons are just more enjoyable than comics
U.S. professional comics are the same repetitive crap that they have been for decades. Never mind paying for them, I don't even want to bother reading them. It's also a pretty shitty system, asking you to buy the cheap publications every month and then pick up the TP once a year for something that actually holds up.
Ironically, I do pick up comics and TP of the stuff I enjoy reading. It's just that the majority of common comics are nothing that I'm interested in. They can't even get me interested in an attractive female on the cover, between the art inside being completely different and just not drawing attractive ladies anymore.
Show a person a comic worth paying for, and they will pay for it.
DC/Marvel comics are not selling = They are not making comic worth their paper to pay for it.