Comics News Returning to Print
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Once upon a time, before the world wide web, probably before most of you were born, we got our news from print publications – that included comics news. The internet put an end to that. Not that I can complain too much as it is getting me a few bucks a week by way of this The Daily Cartoonist site you all read. But I do miss getting The Comics Reader and The Buyer’s Guide for Comic Fandom/The Comic Buyer’s Guide back when they were in their prime.
Well Tiffany Babb is attempting to bring back comics news in print with The Comics Staple.
Last year Tiffany Babb began The Comics Courier, a tabloid bi-annual paper of comics criticism and reviews. Now she is preparing a monthly print magazine of comic news. From Broken Frontier:
Stay in the loop with The Comics Staple, a new monthly publication helmed by comics critic and editor Tiffany Babb (The Comics Courier, PanelxPanel). The Comics Staple is a brand-new 12-page black-and-white zine with a DIY aesthetic that keeps comics fans up to date on the latest books and news, shipping directly to subscribers through the mail.
The 12-page black-and-white zine will ship directly to subscribers through the mail and will “include top comics picks, reviews, interviews with creators, news roundups, indie creator spotlights, local comic shop spotlights, as well as a page on weird comics history from Mary Tyler Moorehawk artist Dave Baker,” per the announcement.
The Comics Staple will fund through Kickstarter campaigns twice a year, starting in April. Readers can pledge for six-month physical and digital subscriptions, and the first issue will ship in September.
Javier Perez at The Comics Beat quotes Babb:
“I’m so excited to be working on The Comics Staple with this team of incredible writers. I really think that comics fans, myself included, have felt the splintering of the comics grapevine as social media has fallen from its heights. I’m hoping that the Staple will be a way for people to keep up with the comics that they love and learn about the new comics they should be following,” said Babb in a statement.
I hope after the monthly news magazine gets established it will expand beyond comic books to comic strips, both newspaper and web, and to editorial cartoon news. As seen above the comic news magazines of the 1970s and 1980s were not adverse to those parts of the medium.
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