Claypool has recently made public the news that they told me in confidence some weeks ago: That the print end of the line would cesae to exist.
Personally, I think this should send a serious chill through the industry. For the first time that I can think of, an entire publishing line has been canceled, not by the publisher, but by the distributor. The distributor should theoretically be the middle man. In this instance, however–again, for the first time that I can think of–the middle man has taken the lead position and shut down the publisher.
And any publisher who thinks he is immune from this monopolistic maneuver is kidding himself.
And the real killer is going to be the chorus of fan voices saying, “Claypool Comics? What’s that? Never heard of it.”
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