I have to leave it Illfonic for displaying some of the cooler convention displays and promotions than most other companies.
Conventions have changed over the years and it has most definitely moved past Comicbook allure. Its a large money making operation. more so than comics have been but comics have adopted stranger practices and some damning practices I might add.
Its what really angers me that comics can’t be adopting smaller formats, and larger page numbers because the art would just get smothered and it doesn’t help that the process has been systemactically been digitally saturated over the years. With colourists hijacking black and white inking to literally make it unrecognizable, or colourist fucking it up totally by repainting everything into their own vision. or that comicbook inking has been hijacked by amateur artists not really making a name for themselves artistically and hijacking the name of the writer to sell their books. Or a writer hijacking all art for the sake of shitty writting done in a none literary format and taking too much glory based on their Union Writing gig.
So is there any path to success between games and comics? Well…no unless there are extreme factors involved in promoting literature in the printed arena in a profitable manner.
I’ve seen comicbook related items like The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn…
i’d even go as far to say that the Film industry had put out one or two things that never saw the light of that, namely All You Need Is Kill (which can’t be found unless Digital) and OBlivions digital widescreen comicbook thing (whether its an adaptation or preproduction screenplay).
All the while, i think there is room, just not enough revenue pathways to make it collectable and fan- processable. I mean, PEOPLE want to collect it and make it a collectors item. They can’t do this the way it is structured today!
Now unless comicbooks get access to making each copy some unique tradable commodity like on steam or something, i don’t see people making it highly sought after because the way monetization happens is at the PAYPAL level. And if something is a foot legally, then UNIQUENESS like a gold leaflet will not be very artistically valueable unless it was sold, sought after and then speculated. Speculation in this day in age is pretty much fround upon. so what gives?