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Over at Making Light, former Valiant Comics editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden started a thread on trying to explain marketing categories in publishing, and how they’re not solely determined by the content:
Say your book features a strange and powerful device, the Transnistrian Infundibulator:
If the storyline is about the inception, interim difficulties, and eventual happy resolution of the relationship between the inventor of the Transnistrian Infundibulator and some nice young woman, it’s a romance.
If he’s a scholar studying the Transnistrian Infundibulator, she’s a governess, and his best fossil specimen of T. infundibulator falls out of his pocket during a reception at Almack’s, it’s a regency.
If one or both of them is not 100% human, they meet cute while fighting off spooky badguys, and the Transnistrian Infundibulator is an ancient magical artifact they use to defeat said badguys, it’s a paranormal romance.
If she’s his lab assistant, he thinks she looks hot in goggles and a tool belt, and the Transnistrian Infundibulator is a huge rivet-intensive steam-driven mechanical wombat, it’s steampunk.
If the Transnistrian Infundibulator is magic, but instead of working like a handheld appliance, it generates profound and numinous changes that affect the world as a whole, it’s probably fantasy.
And the discussion took off from there.
Farther down the list of comments, I added:
If you actually see what the Transnistrian Infundibulator looks like in the book twice, it’s comics.
If it also has a spine, it’s a graphic novel.
But it occurs to me that we should be much more precise in trying to decide comics categories. For starters:
If the Transnistrian Infundibulator awakens a long sleeping creature the size of an elementary school that speaks perfect if grandiose English, it’s a Marvel monster comic from the late 50s.
And so I throw the floor open to you. Have at it.
Here’s the item on sale today at woot: 1 refurbished Barnes & Noble NOOK 3G+WiFi eReader, 16 Level B&W E Ink Display & Color Touchscreen Navigation Panel for $99 plus $5 shipping.
I’m not sure whether this is a sign of eBooks becoming the default, or if it means that new products are coming down the pike, or that Barnes & Noble is in trouble and the Kindle is going to be the default, or what, but it does show that the industry is changing faster and faster.
Having seen some of the new color screens coming out by the end of the year, I think I’m leaning towards inventory reduction… but I can’t be sure. And of course, by writing this, I’m contributing to the uncertainty.
Oh, one other note: woot is owned by… Amazon. Which means that for at least one day, Amazon is selling NOOKs. Now I’m even more confused.
Remember this when some other website hawks the Amazon steal of the day, and then complains about how all the local shops are going away.
We’ve received all the covers for DC Comics July solicitations, including the long awaited Games, the New Teen Titans graphic novel from Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. And when I say long awaited, I mean two decades long– which kinda ties in with all the DC Retroactive titles coming out, including our favorite, Green Lantern reuniting the team of ComicMix contributors Dennis O’Neil and Mike Grell.
Take a look.
Swipe File is normally Rich Johnston’s beat, but since he’s not into American politics, he might not catch this one.
On the left is Gary Callahan, a.k.a. The Smiler, from Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan
One of these individuals has good looks and a certain amount of charisma, but has no empathy for the lower classes of society. He has designs on the presidency, and will cut odious political deals to make that happen, all while being fawned over by right wing pundits and a segment of the voters who are convince that he will save us from “the Beast”.
The other, of course, is a character out of the comic books.
For further comparison, consider this page from Transmetropolitan #41, and remember that this came out over 10 years ago. Sounds like something Ryan could have said last week, when he tried to shut down the U.S. federal government.
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