Why I Love Tom Spurgeon
Over at the Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon wrote an excellent essay, “Why Comic Shops Still Matter, Or At Least Why They Should“. Go take a look at it, it’s really good. A little bit:
The two biggest problems facing the Direct Market have little to do with some notion of quality and a failure of will from certain shops to achieve this, but instead 1) that the system does not do enough to encourage and support the best models for sustained success, and 2) the system does not do enough to keep itself from being manipulated and exploited for the sake of gains different than or even opposed to sustained, long-term success.
