Shift Publishing, 77 Publishing, Time Bomb Comics and Markosia have joined Comic Book UK, which launched in March to build the UK into a “global comics superpower”.Well good luck on that. For all we know, they might do a better job building up publishing and distribution than some businesses in the USA have to date. But, they'll also have to prove they can turn out stories with merit, because only that way will they be able to prove successful, both in artistic and business terms.
The publishers join the six founding members: DC Thomson, Rebellion Entertainment, Avery Hill Publishing, The Phoenix Comic, B7 Media and Fable. [...]
[...] Over the coming months they will work together to develop proposals to support growth in the UK comics industry. These will include recommendations for targeted tax relief to de-risk investment in new comic titles; evidence of the potential returns on investing in comic enterprises; and programmes to develop new generations of industry-ready creative talent.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Thursday, May 01, 2025
New comics distribution system in the UK
The Bookseller announces some British publishers banded together as part of a new trade company with the goal of building up Britain's comics distribution:
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