WildStorm and Vertigo plunge into the blogosphere
With The Source, the DCU blog, perking right long, DC has launched two more blogs, Graphic Content by Pamela Mullins, covering the latest at Vertigo, and WildStorm’s The Bleed, where Austin Trunick will be hitting the RSS highway. Graphic Content kicks off with an excerpt from Bill Willingham’s Peter and Max novel (no pictures!) and features some excerpts on the recent remastered reprint of RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.
All the more linkage for us, we says, and we welcome Austin and Pamela to the world of the long distance blogger.
06/11/09 at 9:29 am
It’s good to know that Vertigo and Wildstorm are so cutting edge by starting blogs. I can’t wait until they start twittering…in 3 to 4 years.
06/11/09 at 9:44 am
Wildstorm has been on Twitter for a while, and Vertigo started an account yesterday.
06/11/09 at 9:52 am
http://twitter.com/WildStorm
06/11/09 at 10:33 am
Just thought I’d mention that the Peter & Max excerpt does come complete with illos and then some…
06/11/09 at 12:21 pm
Steve — the Peter & Max excerpt is GORGEOUS!
Can’t wait to see the whole book.
kdb
06/11/09 at 2:39 pm
[…] Thanks to everyone who found us in the few hours since our first post! I’d like to give a shout out to all of you linking to GRAPHIC CONTENT, especially THE BEAT, NEWSARAMA , ROBOT 6, and POP CANDY. […]
06/11/09 at 4:35 pm
[…] I’d like to send a thank-you out to all of the blogs and websites who have linked to us, including Blog@Newsarama, The Beat, and Robot 6. […]
06/11/09 at 4:40 pm
“It’s good to know that Vertigo and Wildstorm are so cutting edge by starting blogs. I can’t wait until they start twittering…in 3 to 4 years.”
i hate super-duper-clever comments like this. sure, vertigo and WS are a little late to the game — so what?! do their respective late entries into the blogosphere reflect on the site’s quality? will that make it any less informative? will you ignore them if they post exclusive news on a creator or book you like (they were late getting started after all — FOR SHAME!)?
kudos to dc/vertigo/ws for taking the initiative and giving their fanbase a direct source of info, and if you ask me, there really is no such thing as too much info in terms of comic news. as a former dc employee, i’m sure a lot of time, effort and advil went into these blogs before their launches, just to be met with this type of typical message board response.
in other words, better late than never, jerkstore.
06/11/09 at 4:43 pm
There’s nuthin’ more “cutting edge” than INTERNET HATE. Way to go, Chris, and thanks for your “contribution.”
06/12/09 at 7:18 am
I think the saddest thing is that it’s likely more people are reading the blog than buying wildstorm comics…
06/12/09 at 1:16 pm
>> I think the saddest thing is that it’s likely more people are reading the blog than buying wildstorm comics…>>
That’s sort of how it’s supposed to work.
It’s a promo blog — and the idea of promo is to show it to a wider audience than you’re going to get as a paying audience, in the hopes of converting some of that wider audience. If they weren’t able to reach more people than are currently buying the books, it would be a massive failure.
kdb
06/12/09 at 1:38 pm
The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that the blog would only need a few thousand people to read it to be more popular than most of the wildstorm titles.
It was about the raw number rather than intent.
06/12/09 at 11:49 pm
>> The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that the blog would only need a few thousand people to read it to be more popular than most of the wildstorm titles.>>
Even if that’s the case, having more people read the blog and see the promo for the books would still be a good thing. Maybe it’ll help them boost their sales to a point you find more credible.
Publishers with lower line averages than Wildstorm have blogs, too.
kdb
06/13/09 at 8:03 am
[…] Der im Zuge der von DC gestarteten Blogoffensive (via The Beat) entstandene Vertigo-Comicblog Graphic Content, hat nun erste Previewbilder des neuen monatlich erscheinenden Comicserie Sweet Tooth von Jeff Lemire gepostet. Es sind die ersten kolorierten Seiten in der noch jungen Karriere des symapthischen Cartoonisten aus Kanada. Hier ein kurzer Snip plus die Previewbilder: […]