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The fugitive issue demanded $45.00 above four copies of the complete issue: a market hierarchy that does not hold up.
Read article →82 certified announcements compared to 34 raw ones on the key reference. The rest of the series costs $3 an issue. Statement of August 29, 2026.
Read article →He wrote four stand-alone works over twenty-five years, then brought them together. What this creates in terms of reading order, and why it doesn't damage them.
Read article →Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: Strangers in Paradise #1 at $8.48, with 19 of 127 listings reporting a reprint. With a self-publisher, the print run determines the price.
Read article →Not a particular sensitivity but a structural decision: friendship as the axis, and decisions that arise from a job rather than a romance.
Read article →Each series is a closed story and none presupposes the others. Exit points that leave nothing undone — and the only exception.
Read article →What color does to a page, what it replaces with inking, and why it shifts the collector's question from the cover to the print run.
Read article →Three demonstrations that the community considered improbable in 1993. An influence which is not measured by the successors but by the arguments that it has withdrawn.
Read article →A self-published author has no one to sell his rights abroad. What it involves before starting a series, and how to compose despite the gaps.
Read article →Neither the plot nor the drawing — the dialogues. How they work, what they allow, and why his stories are reread.
Read article →One hundred and fifty chapters in total. One volume to test, two short series to confirm, the major work last — and the three unnecessary expenses to avoid.
Read article →Advance printing, go through the distributor, decide on reprints, manage stock. What the model requires — and the traces it leaves on objects.
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