I should have mentioned in yesterday's post that any of the newer British Golden Age discoveries I have made over the last couple of years will not go into another Golden Age collection. There seems to be no interest in the rare and hard to find series, as proven by the 6 volume series and massive collected edition. ..or the Comic Bits magazine dedicated to the subject which was highly praised by those who read it but sales were so low the amount of time and effort put into each 80 pager was far from worth it.
Any of the characters found will appear in one of the new style one off anthologies. Two I have already mentioned in the previous post.
The main focus in 2025 will be to try to boost sales (I do not have a pension plan!) because, despite the people who have read the titles and given them good reviews or even (2023) (because Black Tower has been hiding since 1984!) the "New company to watch" 😂 it does not add up to sales and though I love writing and drawing comics I do have bills to pay and food to buy.
The idea of a one day, old style comic mart is one I want to look into as books tend to sell better at these than they do online -showing what I called "the lie of internet commerce" years ago. "Get on the internet to sell and use social media" -those people vanished themselves pretty quickly as they made their money and ran before the big con was realised. Face Book, LinkedIn, Twitter/X and so one as well as various internet sites get high numbers of views of publication items BUT views do not put money in the bank.
It might be worth pointing out, again, that the online store means that if you order a book it is sold to you in the local currency (so dollars, Yen or whatever), printed and posted to you in your region. No international shipping or customs fees. This blog gets a huge number of views from the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria -basically world wide so you might expect some interest or curiosity. As a visitor pointed out the other day when I was showing the stats; the UK, where CBO is based, provides the lowest number of views. Work that one out.
There are, therefore (is that a near double negative?) plans for 2025 and over 200 books to push so, hopefully, I'll see you next year!
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