Because I only click through one of the links from their email twice a month or so, but half the time I do there's something infuriatingly inaccurate or stupid or ill-thought. So: a dumping ground for these things, as you or I spot them (probably to moulder un-posted-to after today).
This week, in the article about old comic strips being reprinted, Peter Sanderson quotes the lead singer of The Action Suits:
“The first volume of The Complete Peanuts sold 120,000 copies, maybe more,” says marketing and publicity director Eric Reynolds, and has become Fantagraphics’ “bestselling book ever.”
And then four grafs later he asserts that:
The “biggest surprise” among Fantagraphics’ strip reprints is that George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has had “surprisingly large” sales of “over 10,000 copies” per volume, making it Fantagraphics’ third-best seller.
Splicing three quotes into one sentence can often be a warning flag, looking like a theatre poster. But it's the unsupported part of the sentence that is completely ludicrous. He already gave figures of 20k for the first of the second round of Popeyes, therefore placing that into the unstated second rank. But Fantagraphics sold 80-100,000 copies of Ghost World with the help of the movie adaptation's release, and Love & Rockets and Hate used to sell around 30,000 an issue around the turn of the '90s. I believe Acme topped either of those at its heights, too.
Presumably he means "third-best seller" of the current series of strip reprints. Or possibly of any series of strip reprints they've ever done. Or of any kind of reprint. Or maybe of any squarebound volume. But he's specifically established the context of everything Fantagraphics has ever published, not any other set of goalposts, whatever they might be. (It's a bit of a non-story anyway: Fantagraphics Find Success Doing Same Thing They've Been Doing For 25 Years - Newjacks And Scumbags Rip Off, Ride Coattails. But that's par for the course.)
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)
Wil Moss: Enter Campbell, the artist of From Hell and creator of such graphic novels as Bacchus, the Alec series and The Fate of the Artist.
Alec is a series but Bacchus is a single graphic novel?
Trevor Soponis: Mike Allred's Madman, long a cult favorite among indie comics fans, is enjoying a popular renaissance thanks in part to a new publishing deal with Image Comics.
Has anyone got sales figures for this? I strongly doubt that the univerally-derided new series is really putting the pre-Heroes World collapse issues in the shade, number-wise.
The hero of the series, Frank "Madman" Einstein, was created innocuously enough in 1992, when Allred published a three-issue series with Tundra, the now defunct comics imprint launched by Kevin Eastman, creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "I'd created the Einstein character for a short story," explained Allred in an e-mail interview with PWCW. "Then, feeling nostalgic for the super heroes of my childhood, I threw a costume on Frank and Madman was born."
This is pretty impressive: not only does Allred's quote directly contradict the assertion that he's using it to support, in at least three ways, but by omission he has Allred giving an inaccurate version of events too!
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 28 June 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)
"Universally-deried" new series? I'm not the universe, but I think it's pretty great, and I'd love to see why someone thinks it's not any good.
― David R., Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)
First issue just recapped the entire previous series, new series light on plot, and overly concerned with boring Cartesian metaphysics?
― Leee, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)
also: first issue recapped entire previous series, then second (and only other) issue said "FORGET ALL THAT MAAAAAAAAN everything you knew is wrong (OR IS IT, MR CARTES?)"
(plus recapped entire first issue)
((but that was kinda cute))
(((don't dodge the sales figures issue though)))
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)
I like it just fine you guys suck Swamp Thing tubers :( :( :(
I really wish there was some sort of resource that kept track of sales figures for comix, tho, because inquiring minds want to LOL.
― David R., Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)
Originally published as a series by Dark Horse in the late 1990s, the dark days of the comics industry, [Red Rocket 7] is back in print now in a .45-record-sized collection from Image
So, it’s gun-sized, or it’s 3.15” wide?
― numismatic factory (sic), Friday, 21 November 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)
While he wasn’t well known in the U.S., Moore was doing impressive work on a new British sci-fi weekly, Warrior and on the other Brit anthology, actually—2000 A.D. He was also writing for Marvel U.K. as well as contributing stories to the UK Star Wars series; prose shorts here and there and backup stories at Doctor Who Magazine. In fact, at the time, Moore was everywhere except in the U.S.
Bold represents italics in original, tagging error is (sic).
He was also writing for Marvel U.K. as well as
As well as?
contributing stories to the UK Star Wars series;
By Marvel UK.
prose shorts here
In Marvel UK magazines.
and there
In Marvel UK annuals.
and backup stories
Lead stories.
at Doctor Who Magazine.
Published by Marvel UK.
So, this sentence has it that he was also writing for Marvel UK, as well as Marvel UK, Marvel UK, Marvel UK, and Marvel UK. This is the proof dude’s citing that:
Moore was everywhere except in the U.S.
Three publishers in one city in one country = the entire planet?
― numismatic factory (sic), Friday, 21 November 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)
From the beginning, starting with issue #21 and “The Anatomy Lesson,”
#20 comes before #21 - poor guy obviously ran out of fingers and toes.
― numismatic factory (sic), Friday, 21 November 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)
In 2000, after Moore had ended a long absence to work for a DC/Wildstorm sub-imprint called “America’s Best Comics,”
This is ascribing an unwarranted element of control to Moore.
Moore’s first issue, in which he ties up Pasko’s run on “Loose Ends,” has never been reprinted
Wait, you actually know #21 wasn’t the first, but then you say Pasko’s entire run had the title of that single issue of Moore’s!
― numismatic factory (sic), Friday, 21 November 2008 05:36 (seventeen years ago)
First published in 2004 by Avon Books under the art direction of Art Speigelman, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel has gone on to be considered one of the great literary graphic novels of its time.
Pretty sure I read this in 1996 or so after making sure to get the Auster first. (Piece pretty decent otherwise though.)
― surm? lol (sic), Thursday, 16 July 2009 07:17 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, City of Glass was definitely earlier than 04.
― more ▌▌▌▌in more places (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)