Comments on: Bart Beaty on Euro-comics malaise http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Peter Bangs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7709 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:43:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7709 But surely this is exactly the sort of market situation that gave rise to L'Association et al. It may be grim for a while yet but I definitely expect a countersurge to begin soon enough. But surely this is exactly the sort of market situation that gave rise to L’Association et al. It may be grim for a while yet but I definitely expect a countersurge to begin soon enough.

]]> by: mario boon http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7694 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:30:23 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7694 it's true. The problem is every publishing house is now part of a conglomerate. FOr example: Dupuis is now together with Lombard, Dargaud. Casterman is another. Which creates a big profit-only atmosphere. There's a glut of new books as well, often running no longer than 3 albums, often just another fantasy-knockoff or a Titeuf-knockoff, that makes it a very stale creative market. it’s true.
The problem is every publishing house is now part of a conglomerate. FOr example: Dupuis is now together with Lombard, Dargaud. Casterman is another. Which creates a big profit-only atmosphere.
There’s a glut of new books as well, often running no longer than 3 albums, often just another fantasy-knockoff or a Titeuf-knockoff, that makes it a very stale creative market.

]]> by: Peter Bangs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7685 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:16:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7685 The big french houses do seem to have the same obsession with format that Marvel and DC do, the 46 to 90 page album being their "floppy". That said there is still a far greater choice of styles and genres available in Supermarkets and the like across Europe than there is outside of a handful of choice comics shops in the UK and US. Experimentation may be at something of a low point at the moment but perhaps that's simply because it's so hard to find something that hasn't been done before. The big french houses do seem to have the same obsession with format that Marvel and DC do, the 46 to 90 page album being their “floppy”. That said there is still a far greater choice of styles and genres available in Supermarkets and the like across Europe than there is outside of a handful of choice comics shops in the UK and US. Experimentation may be at something of a low point at the moment but perhaps that’s simply because it’s so hard to find something that hasn’t been done before.

]]> by: Tom Spurgeon http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7616 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:46:47 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/05/bart-beatty-on-euro-comics-malaise/#comment-7616 Thanks! Although it's "Beaty" like the robot says on "Buck Rogers". Thanks!

Although it’s “Beaty” like the robot says on “Buck Rogers”.

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