Warren Ellis Speaks on the “non-predictions about comics in 2012”
Here’s an extract from the blog of the Internet Jesus. It’s slowly making the rounds on the comics internet. I decided it should be here, too.
This year should be the year where a wide swathe of established comics creators go “digital-first” with a broad variety of projects. However, that should also have been last year. Which leads me to wonder whether or not there’s really a taste for it among the creative community. (Aside from me: but I’m not certain I’d have the time or access to the artists that’d really make it work for me.) So I’m going to go ahead and say this isn’t going to happen this year, and won’t until it’s really too late – and just hope I’m completely wrong about this one.
This year, at least three groups will offer indie comics creators a “roll-your-own” digital service allowing them to ready and upload their own comics into storefront apps. It will be absolute chaos, and will create the sort of curational crisis you see when you browse for Kindle books by genre.
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