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comix-biz Digest       Saturday, April 19 1997       Volume 02 : Number 005



In this issue:

    (cbiz) Re: COMICS-PRO: Fan Magazines...
    (cbiz) Fan Magazines...
    (cbiz) RE> COMICS-PRO- Diamond art
    (cbiz) INFO: Banner links to indy Magazine
    (cbiz) INFO: Overstreet FAN suspended after #24
    (cbiz) INFO: International Competition
    (cbiz) indy comic column on Mania.com
    (cbiz) Re: COMICS-PRO: indy comic column on Mania.com
    (cbiz) HYPE: Steve Weissman to publish with Alternative Press, Inc.
    (cbiz) INFO: Fine Print Distro filing Chapter 11
    (cbiz) RE> Re- COMICS-PRO- How doe
    (cbiz) NEWS: Ed Brubaker's new At The Seams is Certified Cool!
    (cbiz) Marvel in Previews
    (cbiz) Firecracker Alternative Book Award
    Re: (cbiz) Marvel in Previews
    (cbiz) NEWS: Jon Lewis to add "monster" stories to Spectacles
    (cbiz) Eisner Nominations

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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 14:23:20 -0600
From: Rick Klaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) Re: COMICS-PRO: Fan Magazines...

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Any thoughts?
> --

Jeff Mason made some very good and useful comments on this subject.  The
only thing I could add is not to think so narrowly.  Open your scope of
advertising to non-comic markets.  Shannon Wheeler has done this
succesfully with advertisments in coffee magazines.  (For those who
don't know most of Shannon's sales are outside traditional comic
markets!)  We recently placed ads in Wild West magazine for Blueberry
with fantastic success.  And we've advertised in other non-traditional
mags like Locus.  Of course we only sell about 1/3 of our books in comic
markets.  Our entire goal is to produce books for a world outside of
comics.

So take Jeff's advice and determine who your market is and then start
looking.

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Managing Editor, MOJO Press

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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 15:29:23 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (cbiz) Fan Magazines...

Fan Magazines...
To [e-mail], [e-mail]


My question for those of you out there is how many FANzines
are out there that are worth adverising in.  The price of
one ad in Wizard is about the equivalent to Highway Robbery.
 And it's not worth putting all your eggs in one basket.

Any thoughts?

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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 20:34:50 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (cbiz) RE> COMICS-PRO- Diamond art

RE> COMICS-PRO: Diamond article in Feb 3 New York Times
To Comicspro-L <[e-mail]>, [e-mail],
   Comix-L <[e-mail]>, Rick Klaw <[e-mail]>


first I have to apologize for the lag in my response to this
bit of news.  Unfortunately I don't make the time to read my
e-mail as much as I should.  How do people feel about this
in general?  Doesn't this seem completely like a power
monger taking control of all aspects of an industry who's
most endearing quality is that is changes and evolves over
the years?  Am I being overly melodramatic or is it simply
something that I'm overseeing in this whole BIG Business
attitude.

any insights??

- --sigh--

I can't help but take a cynical approach as a cog that turns
the big wheel realizes that he's been turning the wrong
wheel his whole life

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Date: 2/4/97 11:47 PM
To: Antonio Rodriguez
From: Rick Klaw <[e-mail]>

February 3, 1997

Steve Geppi: Unlikely King of Comic-Book Distribution

By GREGORY JORDAN


  BALTIMORE -- While Ron Perelman and Carl Icahn bicker over
control of
Marvel Entertainment in bankruptcy court, a comic-book titan
from
Baltimore
has been soaring like Superman. Sidestepping the wreckage
left by the
predations of financially muscular outsiders, Steve Geppi
has become a
leading figure in the melodramatic world of comics by
consolidating the
lucrative distribution end of the industry.

  Geppi, owner of Diamond Comic Distributor Inc., even
celebrated his
ascendancy last June by buying a first edition Superman
comic for almost
$62,000, a talisman of his childhood passions and adult
success.

  Some readers and retailers question whether Geppi, who is
also a
minority
owner of the Baltimore Orioles and the owner and publisher
of Baltimore
magazine, will eventually be seen as a hero or villain in
the eyes of
his
customers. For now, many welcome him, as an antidote to the
financiers
who
bought up comic companies a few years ago seeking -- in vain
- -- to
profit
from them. Geppi, by contrast, grew up in the business.

  He was born in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood. He
dropped out
of
school when he was 13. In 1974, he left his job as a postal
carrier to
open a
comic-book store beneath a television repair shop. And
today, the
47-year-old's passion for Batman and Captain America,
coupled with
Diamond's
shrewd -- some would say relentless -- acquisitions of
comics
distributors
nationwide, makes Geppi, if not the current king of
comicdom, at least a
powerful duke who controls what titles move to what stores
at what
prices.

  His rise to dominance in the crucial distribution segment
of the
business
has inevitably raised concerns among the owners of the
mom-and-pop
stores who
are Diamond's customers. A decade ago, they could chose from
among at
least
half a dozen distributors. Now, in an industry in which 300
publishers
produce some 1,600 titles a month, Diamond delivers 1,300.
Marvel's
distribution business, called Hero's World, delivers 300
titles monthly.

  Control could be even more firmly in Diamond's hands if
current talks
with
Marvel result in Diamond's acquisition of its last
significant rival,
Hero's
World. The deal would make Geppi's Diamond company, already
the largest
distributor of English-language comics, the only major
distributor in
this
country.

  Diamond makes the bulk of its money from the difference
between the
price
at which it purchases comics from publishers and the price
at which it
sells
to retailers. Though the markup is meager, sheer sales
volume makes
those
numbers burgeon.

  Diamond's sales to specialty stores accounts for 80
percent of all
comics
sales, with the other 20 percent coming from subscriptions
and newsstand
sales. Geppi distributes to 3,600 American accounts and
1,000 foreign
stores
each month. With the average price of comic books hovering
near $3,
American
comics retailers average $250,000 to $300,000 in sales each
year.

  "Thirty years ago, people thought comics were only for
juvenile
delinquents," Geppi said. "Today, I'm in a position to show
this is a
very
legitimate industry, one that affects other industries like
the movies."

  That was the kind of thinking that led investors to
believe, in the
early
1990s, that big money could be made. Money flowed into the
business from
places as disparate as Wall Street and Main Street,
Hollywood studios
and the
Home Shopping Network. In addition to Perelman's control of
Marvel
through
his McAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Time Warner owns DC Comics,
the second
largest publisher in the business.

  When DC Comics decided to kill off Superman in 1992, the
comics
business
was on its way to becoming a billion dollar business.

  Then the inevitable bursting of that speculative bubble,
coupled with
demographic trends that analysts say mean fewer young
readers, sent
industry
revenues plummeting to about $500 million last year from $1
billion in
1993.

  Diamond's stiffest test came in 1995 when Marvel decided
to do its own
distributing, taking away one-third of Geppi's business. He
responded by
securing exclusive contracts with leading publishers like DC
Comics,
Image
Comics and Dark Horse Comics. His acquisitions culminated in
the
purchase, in
1996, of Capital Cities, which had been the third largest
distributor.

  Diamond took in more than $200 million in sales last year,
up from
$164
million in 1995.

  "I am the ultimate optimist about this business," Geppi
said from his
headquarters north of Baltimore, where Diamond also plots
the
distribution of
games, videos, and other entertainment staples for the
pubescent or the
pubescent at heart.

  "Comics will continue to partner with the movies and Wall
Street just
like
with other industries since the 1930s," he added. "But for
me, the main
thing
is still the comics retailer, the comics reader."

  He identifies strongly with the readers. The personal
collection that
he
began as a child in Little Italy is now worth "something in
the
eight-figure
range," he calculates. He opened an international comics
showcase for
that
collection in 1995.

  Geppi's business expanded from a single store to four in
the Baltimore
area
in the early 1980s. He first purchased a failing distributor
in 1982,
then
grew almost compulsively acquisitive: By 1988 he was the top
U.S.
distributor.

  Geppi's background helps explain his resistance to suitors
who have
encouraged him to take his company public. "If I ever did go
public, I
wouldn't sell off more than 50 percent of the company,"
Geppi said. "I
believe, self-servingly or not, that I have the market's
best interest
at
heart, whereas a more calculated, bottom-line approach might
not."

  Geppi would not comment publicly on the implications of a
possible
deal
between Diamond and Marvel. But David Schreff, the chief
executive of
Marvel,
obliquely acknowledged the possibility. "We've been engaged
in a
six-month
review of the distribution of comics and related
publishing," he said.
"If we
were to make a decision to shift resources, there would be
three reasons
to
do so: to provide greater reliability, lower error rates in
shipping to
many
stores and greater operating efficiency for our retailer."

  But most comic retailers raise an eyebrow at the notion of
further
consolidation in the distribution business. "It's always
fashionable to
say
the guy with all the toys has some insidious plan, but I
believe Geppi's
out
for the collective good of this industry," said Bill
Liebowitz, who owns
Golden Apple, a comics and entertainment store in Melrose,
Calif.
"They've
had to do some aggressive things, but I believe that most of
his moves
are
founded in what do we do to preserve this industry and this
art form."

  A few retailers, however, contend that Diamond is already
using the
leverage of its unique position in the distribution world.
"We have no
choice
now," said Mimi Cruz, owner of Night Flight Comics in Salt
Lake City.
"We
were with Capital Cities for eight or nine years, and they
gave us
better
service. When Diamond became the exclusive comics
distributor, they
decided
to add a $10 surcharge to all shipments. They justify it
because there
is
nobody else."

  Geppi defended Diamond by linking the health of the
industry as a
whole to
the size and increased capacity of the one large distributor
left
standing.

  "Other companies come from a more bottom-line kind of
situation,"
Geppi
said in reference to Marvel. "They only ask whether this
title makes
money or
not, whereas we solicit retailer input, so it isn't just a
Diamond
decision.
Diamond's commitment is to the smaller publisher. That's
part of our
commitment to comics in general."


  Other Places of Interest on the Web

Diamond Comic Distributor
<A
HREF="http://www.diamdcom.com/">http://www.diamdcom.com/</A>


Copyright 1997 The New York Times


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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:13:18 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) INFO: Banner links to indy Magazine

A number of people have been asking how to do banner links to the indy
Magazine Web page so I've made up a page with information on how to do
banner links to the indy Magazine Web page from your pages, plus a few
different banners to choose from.  Just point your browser to:
    http://www.indyworld.com/banners

Jeff Mason
Editor-in-Chief - indy Magazine

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:34:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) INFO: Overstreet FAN suspended after #24

Just in case you haven't heard, issue #24 will be the last issue of
Overstreet's FAN magazine.  I talked with Benn Ray (an editor) this
morning and he had mentioned that about 1/2 of the people that were
working on FAN are being "downsized" and the remaining 1/2 are going to
be pitching new ideas to Gemstone.  The Comic Book Marketplace, the EC
reprints, and the Overstreet Annual price guide will still be published,
so this looks to only deal with FAN magazine...

Jeff


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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 01:26:14 -0000
From: Albray <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) INFO: International Competition

Hi!
European readers must know "Spirou" Magazine.
In this dinosaur of comics magazine, were born characters as famous =
as the Smurfs, Lucky Luke and Spirou, of course.
They had the idea to create an international competition for artists =
all over the world.
You must be aged from 16 to 35 years old, chose one into a list of =
three and adapt it as you feel.
In order to help artists who do not find this magazine in their =
countries (it's only sold  in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Canada, =
The Netherlands), I have proposed to put the rules of the competition =
and the scenarios on my site, dedicated to European comics:
http://www.imaginet.fr/universbd
It's in French, sorry. I sent a message to some newsgroups, hoping =
that someone would help by translating them in English. But it's a =
good exercice to test your French level. The first scenario is =
already on-line and it's really funny.
Patrick

      Univers BD/Comics Universe
      Magazine on-line d'informations sur la bande dessin=E9e
      <http://www.imaginet.fr/universbd>
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:34:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) indy comic column on Mania.com

Hey there, just to let folks know, I am now writing a weekly column on
independent and small press comics on the Mania on-line magazine
(http://www.mania.com).

Some of the topics I'll be covering on the weekly column are topics that
we discuss here, so you might want to check out my weekly column because
I'll be including links and more information that I may not have had
on-hand when talking back and forth here...

Also, feel free to suggest specific topics (other than "HEY PLUG MY
BOOK!") that you'd like to see covered in my weekly column.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy it!

Jeff


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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 10:15:25 +0000
From: LDeee <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) Re: COMICS-PRO: indy comic column on Mania.com

Hi Jeff--

Just checked out Mania.  It's great!!

Ki

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) HYPE: Steve Weissman to publish with Alternative Press, Inc.

Alternative Press, Inc.

NEWS RELEASE: For immediate release

Contact: Jeff Mason - Phone: [phone] - E-Mail: [e-mail]

Alternative Press debuts new Steve Weissman comic
(http://www.allstarpictures.com/aboutyikes.html)

Steve Weissman's instantly recognizable art and characters have been all
over the place lately -- on CDs by The Presidents of the United States
of America, in Tower Records' "Pulse!" magazine, and in his own hilarious,
smartly-designed self-published comic series, "Yikes".

Now Weissman's come to Alternative Press, and to celebrate the deal,
here comes "Tykes", an extra-length two-color one-shot, that makes the
perfect intro to the all-new "Yikes" series coming this fall, also from
Alternative Press, Inc.

Starring Li'l Bloody and the Pullapart Boy, "Tykes" is the funniest,
scariest, cutest, most tragic trip into Weissman terrirory tet -- you'll
want to come back as soon as we let you!

"Tykes" is a 36 page two-color one-shot, debuting July at a retail price of
$2.95.

Alternative Press, Inc. also publishes "indy Magazine"
(http://www.indyworld.com), Jon Lewis' "Spectacles"
(http://www.indyworld.com/spectacles), and Ed Brubaker's "At The Seams"
and "Detour" comics (http://grove.ufl.edu/~jrm/brubaker.html).


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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:03:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) INFO: Fine Print Distro filing Chapter 11

I just talked with Fine Print a few moments ago on the phone and they
confirmed that they are indeed filing for Chapter 11 (which is
"reorganization" to some and "bankruptcy" to others).

Fine Print is a mid-sized distributor of "alternative" zines and comics
and has been having serious financial problems for quite a while now.


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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 97 14:03:01 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (cbiz) RE> Re- COMICS-PRO- How doe

RE> Re: COMICS-PRO: How does Diamond make a profit?
3/29/97
1:27 PM
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CC [e-mail], [e-mail]


Do the math.....

If Diamond buys a book from you that you are selling for
$2.50 (I use this amount because it's easy to do the math)
at 60% OFF then they pay you $1 (yes one measly dollar) per
book.  Then they in turn sell the book to a store for $1.25
(50% off cover price) to the store) Therefore they make $.25
on every book. If you start multiplying that by the
thousands you can see where the benefit lay in charging that
much.

HOWEVER you can sell to Diamond at whatever price you chose
they will then charge at least 10% (that's there cut) over
what you sell at. So if you sell to them for 50% off cover
the sell it at 40% off cover to stores (which stores don't
like)

The issue is this.  When you solicit a printer and the print
run is less than 2,000 then the price per book can
potentially come out to little less than a dollar on the
book.  Depending on what type of paper, cover, b&w vs.
color, etc.  So the more books you print the cheaper it
comes out to PER BOOK!!  Hence why a lot of indy's cover
prices are $2.95 or even $3.95 even if it's in black and
white!!

HERE'S THE CATCH:
If Diamond orders 500 books you stand to potentially lose
money (again do the math 500 books times $1 is only $500 and
if each book cost you let's say $.75 you just made only $125
which isn't the price for a full page ad in PREVIEWS)
So the more books they order the better your chances are of
making money.

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
Well I think that is what this list (at least in part) was
created for. To bounce off ideas ask questions, and probe
new possibilities. The age old business credo is that it
takes money to make money, but I like to think it takes
spending money wisely to make the most out of your money.

****Unsubstantiated generalization****
The industry these days isn't what it use to be (talk about
understatement) Back in 91, 92 when Image made it's boom
indy's got a shot at 8,000 or more first shot out the
starting gate.  With stores not really knowing what certain
books were about.  (anyone remember Judgment Day by
Lightning(tm) Comics<<yak>>) That doesn't happen as "easily"
now (Lightning btw used a pr firm and they promoted the
book).  Now establishing a fan base and soliciting your
book(s) rests on your shoulders and you can take the
proverbial yoke and run with it.
****end of Unsubstantiated generalization****

I thank you for reading this far and will cut my banter
short.

later


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Date: 3/8/97 11:20 PM
To: Antonio Rodriguez
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]


On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 [e-mail] wrote:

> Okay, now I'm befuddled. If Diamond buys a large quantity
of a title at 60% its
> cover price.. Then how would it make a profit if it sold
the same comic to the
> comics shops at 50% its cover price? Wouldn't it be
setting itself up to lose
> money, since it would be pulling 50% $$ for every 60% $$
of comic it bought?

I believe I see your problem here.  The 60% is the normal
discount rate
that distributors have off the cover price . . . so actually
the
distributor is paying the publisher 40% of the SRP.  By
chargin the
retailers and other down stream consumers 50% of the SRP,
the distributor
ends up making a profit of 10%.

We should remember thought that that's not net for the
distributor . . .
he's still got to pay his overhead (shipping,
housing/storage, office
supplies, salaries, and most importantly publicity (the
Diamond Previews
and Star System catalogs are probably a bitch to
coordinate).

Distributors really do work for their money and there
certainly are
advantages to going with them - a great many shops don't
bother going
direct to the publisher as economies of scale aren't as good
as going with
a large distributor like Diamond or Wargames West (for
gaming) as they can
get their shops supplied all in one stop (every shop I have
visited in
Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Hong orders from Diamond [or a
distribution
subscription service wherein each month they get a delivery
of "hot
titles" and they pay by wire without ever actually having to
decide what
to order, it's all automatic which means most folks on this
list are
ignored since their titles aren't of the "hot" or "fanboy"
nature/caliber]
. . . hell, most of them don't even know how to contact
publishers
directly even if they wanted to).

Peace,
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:59:13 -0500
From: Jeff Mason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) NEWS: Ed Brubaker's new At The Seams is Certified Cool!

Alternative Press, Inc.

NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release.
Contact: Jeff Mason - Phone: [phone] - E-Mail: [e-mail]

Ed Brubaker's At The Seams is Certified Cool
(http://grove.ufl.edu/~jrm/brubaker.html)

Ed Brubaker's new "At The Seams" has been "Certified Cool" in the April
"Previews" catalog of comics available through Diamond Comic
Distributors, the largest distributor of comic books in the United
States.

Some comic books are so cool that they deserve to be singled out.  Every
month, Diamond Comic Distributors "certifies" some of the best and
brightest comics.  "Certified Cool" is their way of showing which titles
stand out to them as perfect examples of distinct and unique comic
stories that will broaden your entertainment experience in the industry.

The "Certified Cool" article featuring "At The Seams" is on page 17 of
Diamond Comic Distributors' April 1997 (Vol VII, #4) "Previews" catalog,
and the listing for "At The Seams" is on page 200 under "Alternative
Press" with an April item code of 0889.

"At The Seams" is a 24 page one-shot, debuting June at a retail price of
$2.95.

Alternative Press, Inc. distributes "At The Seams" through the following
distributors:
- - Big Picture - 604 Markham Street, Lower Level, Toronto, Ontario, M6G
2L8. Phone: [phone] or 800-895-6936. Fax: [phone]. E-Mail:
[e-mail].
- - Diamond Comics - 1966 Greenspring Dr #300, Timonium, MD 21093.
800-783-2981.
- - Cold Cut Distribution, 1729 Angela St #2, San Jose, CA 95125. Phone:
408-293-3844. Fax: [phone]. E-Mail: [e-mail].
- - Downtown Distribution, 1938 West County Road C, Roseville, MN 55113.
Phone: [phone].
- - Last Gasp - 777 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone:
800-366-5121 or 415-824-6636. Fax: [phone].

Alternative Press, Inc. also publishes indy Magazine
(http://www.indyworld.com), Jon Lewis' Spectacles
(http://www.indyworld.com/spectacles), and Steve Weissman's Yikes
(http://www.allstarpictures.com/yikes.html).

Jeff Mason
Publisher - Alternative Press, Inc.

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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:55:04 +0800
From: Casey Lau <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) Marvel in Previews

The new Previews was supposed to have a full Marvel section, so what
happened? Are they on a diet? Or was the rush just too much for them.

Like how Diamond didn't do too much to let people know they came crawling
back!



Casey Lau
Blastoff to The Comic Planet
The Most Powerful Virtual Comicshop in the Multiverse!
http://www.comicplanet.com


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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) Firecracker Alternative Book Award

Hey There! This is a call for votes from all corners of the book world
for the second annual FAB awards celebrating the best of alternative
culture. Last year's FABs were such a rousing success, you won't want to
miss out.

A lively group of book industry co-conspirators is again soliciting your
ideas to help celebrate the best in wildly independent writing and
publishing. We're focusing the searchlight on the outrageous, the
provocative, the unmapped edges of contemporary culture, on books and
authors who excite and disturb  us, challenge our limits and maybe even
piss us off. We'd like to hear your favorite new titles published since
the beginning of 1996 that gave you pause, made your head spin or your
libido light up, that shocked you into new sight and insight--in other
words, books that toss a big ole firecracker down the shorts of the
mainstream--books that make noise.

We're seeking votes (via
http://www.bookwire.com/awards/firecracker.html) from booksellers,
readers, writers, and edge-surfers of every stripe, punks and pundits,
hipsters and hangers-on, underground activists and curious newcomers,
all you early adopters and beta-testers of these cultures' new software.
We'll tally your ballots after the April 25 deadline, and invite you to
an awards party at the American Booksellers Association/Book Expo
America convention this May 31st, late Saturday evening, in Chicago:

THE FAB DO! which has earned a scrappy reputation for being the loudest
fastest coolest (and maybe even goofiest) book party ever, with great
live music and crazy dancing, punctuated by rollicking awards
announcements by some of your favorite alternative culture celebrities.
As the Sundance Film Festival does for the film world, the Firecracker
Awards blast the best of alternative publishing out to a broad new
audience. Take a look at last year's winners and take a moment to vote.
Come help us light the fuse.

The FAB Do will be sponsored by:
AK PRESS * CIRCLET PRESS * CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTION * FERAL
HOUSE * GATES OF HECK/HECK EDITIONS * GROVE/ATLANTIC INC. * HI JINX
PRESS *  NCOMMUNICADO PRESS * JUGGERNAUT * KOEN BOOK DISTRIBUTORS * LAST
GASP *  LITTLE, BROWN & CO. * LPC GROUP (INBOOK/LOGIN TRADE/WOMENSOURCE)
* LOWENSTEIN-MOREL ASSOCIATES * MANIC D PRESS * MILLER TRADE BOOK
MARKETING * NBM * TOWER BOOKS/TOWER RECORDS * WHITE WOLF PUBLISHING


Geoffrey R. Mason          |    [e-mail]
Editor - indy Magazine          |    611 NW 34th Drive
College of Law - Univ of Florida  |    Gainesville, Florida 32607-2429
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:18:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Thomas P. Johnston" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (cbiz) Marvel in Previews

I was also very disappointed by the incomplete Marvel section.
A few books previewed, and a pointer to the Marvel rag that
costs another $1.50 or whatever.  C'mon, Marvel, you can do
better than this.

Tom Johnston

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:36:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) NEWS: Jon Lewis to add "monster" stories to Spectacles

Alternative Press, Inc.

NEWS RELEASE: For immediate release

Contact: Jeff Mason; Alternative Press, Inc.  611 NW 34th Drive,
Gainesville, FL  32607-2429. Phone: [phone]. E-Mail: [e-mail].

Jon Lewis to add "monster" stories to Spectacles

New extra pages makes Spectacles a very distinct comic book

Gainesville, FL, April 17, 1997: Everyone is talking about this new
ongoing series from True Swamp and Ghost Ship creator Jon Lewis.  Having
explored the hidden world of an imaginary swamp and the dreamlike life
of a fantastical shipful of pirates, Lewis launched Spectacles.  His new
series started with two distinct storylines; the hilarious, touching and
vibrant milieu of the modern American city and its denizens; and "The
Frost Changes", the hilarious and fascinating epic which takes place in
modern day Minnesota and pre-industrial Norway -- Simultaneously!

Now Jon Lewis has added yet another dimension to Spectacles -- "monster"
stories.  By adding extra pages to each issue of his critically
acclaimed series, Lewis pays tribute to Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with
stories reminiscent of their pre-hero work for Marvel Comics.

Comic fans weary of narcissistic autobiography and schmaltzy soap-operas
masquerading as realism will try on Jon Lewis' Spectacles with
delightùhere is contemporary comics at its freshest and finest.  Jason
Lutes of Jar of Fools says the result is "an inspired new take on
storytelling itself, transforming leaden conventions into gold."  Jeff
Smith of Bone says Spectacles reveals Lewis' "Kurtzman or Thurber-like
knack for deciding what the story isùwhich slice of the pie to serve,"
and Tom Palmer Jr. of Wizard says "Spectacles proves that Lewis is
bright-eyes and bushy-tailed while the rest of us are still asleep."

Spectacles is a 32 page, quarterly comic book series available at a
retail price of $2.95.

Alternative Press, Inc. also publishes indy Magazine, the guide to
alternative comic books (http://www.indyworld.com); Steve Weissman's
Tykes and Yikes (http://www.allstarpictures.com/aboutyikes.html); and Ed
Brubaker's At The Seams and Detour comics
(http://grove.ufl.edu/~jrm/brubaker).

To look at Spectacles on-line, point your web browser to:
http://www.indyworld.com/spectacles


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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:55:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeff Mason" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (cbiz) Eisner Nominations

Here are the nominees for the 1997 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Congratulations to all! And much thanks to the judges for all their hard
work in arriving at the nominees: Joe Field, Paul Grant, Janet
Hetherington, Tony Isabella, and Jesse McCann.

Best Short Story
"Gentlemanhog," Jim Woodring, Frank #1 (Fantagraphics)
"Heroes," Archie Goodwin and Gary Gianni, Batman: Black & White #4 (DC
Comics)
"Joy Ride," Carol Lay, Joy Ride and Other Stories (Kitchen Sink)
"The Nearness of You," Wizard Presents Kurt Busiek's Astro City, vol. 2,
#1/2 (Homage/Wizard Press)
"Oracle-Year One: Born of Hope," John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Brian
Stelfreeze, and Karl Story, Batman Chronicles #5 (DC)
"Perpetual Mourning," Ted McKeever, Batman: Black & White #1 (DC)

Best Single Issue
Giant THB Parade, Paul Pope (Horse Press)
Kane #13: "Point of View," Paul Grist (Dancing Elephant Press)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City, vol. 2, #1: "Welcome to Astro City," Kurt
Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Will Blyberg (Jukebox Productions/Homage)
Elric #0: Neil Gaiman's "One Life Furnished in Early Moorcock," adapted
by P. Craig Russell (Topps)
Optic Nerve #3, Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)
Sandman #75: "The Tempest," Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (DC/Vertigo)
Stray Bullets #10: "Here Comes the Circus," David Lapham (El Capitan)

Best Serialized Story
Captain America #450-453: "Man Without a Country," Mark Waid, Ron
Garney, and Scott Koblish (Marvel)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 2, #2-3: "Everyday Life/Adventures in
Other Worlds," Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Will Blyberg (Jukebox
Productions/Homage)
Starman #20-23: "Sand and Stars," James Robinson, Tony Harris, Guy
Davis, and Wade von Grawbadger (DC)
Strangers in Paradise #10-13: "It's a Good Life" Terry Moore (Abstract
Studios/Homage)
Usagi Yojimbo #1-2: "Noodles," Stan Sakai (Dark Horse)
Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #604-606: "The Universal Solvent," Don
Rosa (Gladstone)

Best Continuing Series
Akiko, Mark Crilley (Sirius)
Kane, Paul Grist (Dancing Elephant Press)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City,  Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Will Blyberg
(Jukebox Productions/Homage)
Starman, James Robinson, Tony Harris, and Wade von Grawbadger (DC)
Strangehaven, Gary Spencer Millidge (Abiogenesis Press)
Strangers in Paradise, Terry Moore (Abstract Studios/Homage)

Best Limited Series
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt, Ricardo Delgado (Dark Horse)
Batman: Black and White, Mark Chiarello and Scott Peterson, eds. (DC)
Death: The Time of Your Life, Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, Mark
Buckingham, and Mark Pennington (DC/Vertigo)
Gon, Masashi Tanaka (Paradox Press)
Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross (DC)
The  System, Peter Kuper (DC/Vertigo Verite)
Terminal City, Dean Motter and Michael Lark (DC/Vertigo)

Best New Series
Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller, Barry Windsor-Smith (Dark Horse)
Coventry, Bill Willingham (Fantagraphics)
Leave It to Chance, James Robinson and Paul Smith (Homage)
Nowhere, Debbie Dreschler (Drawn & Quarterly)
The Wretch, Phillip Hester and others (Caliber)

Best Comics Publication for a Younger Audience
Akiko, Mark Crilley (Sirius)
Leave It to Chance, James Robinson and Paul Smith (Homage)
Patty Cake, Scott Roberts (Permanent Press/Tapestry)
Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe (Marvel)
Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai (Dark Horse)
Walt Disney's Comics & Stories, John Clark, ed. (Gladstone)

Best Humor Publication
Empty Love Stories #2, Steve Darnall and various artists (Slave Labor)
Joy Ride and Other Stories, Carol Lay (Kitchen Sink)
Patty Cake, Scott Roberts (Permanent Press/Tapestry)
Ragmop, Rob Walton (Planet Lucy)
Sergio  Aragones Destroys DC (DC) and Sergio Aragones Massacres Marvel
(Marvel), Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones

Best Anthology
Batman: Black and White, Mark Chiarello and Scott Peterson, eds. (DC)
Big Book of Hoaxes, Carl Sifakis and various artists, Jim Higgins, ed.
(Paradox Press)
A Decade of Dark Horse, Randy Stradley, ed. (Dark Horse)
Negative Burn, Joe Pruett, ed. (Caliber)
Shi: Kaidan, Peter Guittierrez and various artists, Tony Bedard, ed.
(Crusade)

Best Graphic Album-New
Adolf: graphic novel series (vols. 2-5), Osamu Tezuka (Cadence Books)
Batman and Captain America, John Byrne (DC/Marvel)
Castle Waiting: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, Linda Medley (OLIO)
Fax from Sarajevo, Joe Kubert (Dark Horse Books)
Marilyn: The Story of a Woman, Kathryn Hyatt (Seven Stories Press)

Best Graphic Album-Reprint
Daddy's Girl, Debbie Dreschler (Fantagraphics)
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Life in the Big City, Kurt Busiek and Brent
Anderson (Jukebox Productions/Homage)
Mr. Monster: Origins, Michael T. Gilbert (Graphitti Designs)
Sandman: The Wake, Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth, Charles Vess
(DC/Vertigo)
Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism, David Lapham (El Capitan)

Best Archival Collection
Aviation Art of Russell Keaton (Kitchen Sink)
Blueberry Saga: Confederate Gold, Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud
(Mojo Press)
Li'l Abner, vol. 22-24, Al Capp (Kitchen Sink)
Nine Lives to Live: A Classic Felix Celebration, Otto Mesmer
(Fantagraphics)
Tarzan: The Land That Time Forgot and The Pool of Time, Russ Manning
(Dark Horse)

Best Writer
Kurt Busiek, Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Jukebox Productions/Homage);
Untold Tales of Spider-Man  (Marvel)
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman; Death: The Time of Your Life (DC/Vertigo)
Alan Moore, From Hell (Kitchen Sink);Supreme (Maximum Press)
John Ostrander, The Spectre (DC)
James Robinson, Starman (DC); Leave It to Chance (Homage)
Mark Waid, Flash; Impulse; Kingdom Come (DC); Captain America (Marvel)

Best Writer/Artist-Humor
Mark Crilley, Akiko (Sirius)
Marc Hempel, Tug & Buster  (Art & Soul)
Batton Lash, Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (Exhibit A Press)
Carol Lay, Joy Ride and Other Stories (Kitchen Sink)
Don Rosa, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories; Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone)
Masashi Tanaka, Gon (Paradox Press)

Best Writer/Artist-Drama
Paul Grist, Kane (Dancing Elephant Press)
Joe Kubert, Fax from Sarajevo (Dark Horse)
David Laphham, Stray Bullets (El Capitan)
Mike Mignola, Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse/Legend)
Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse)
Osamu Tezuka, Adolf graphic novel series (Cadence Books)

Best Penciller
Ron Garney, Captain America (Marvel)
Phil Jiminez, Tempest (DC)
Michael Lark, Terminal City (DC/Vertigo)
Steve Rude, Nexus: Executioner's Song (Dark Horse)

Best Inker
Jimmy Palmiotti, Ash (Event); Vampirella Lives (Harris)
George Perez, Teen Titans  (DC)
Joe Sinnott, Untold Tales of Spider-Man '96 (Marvel)
Cam Smith, Supergirl (DC)
Al Williamson, Spider-Man, Untold Tales of Spider-Man  #17-18 (Marvel)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Brent Anderson/Will Blyberg, Kurt Busiek's Astro City , vol. 2 (Jukebox
Productions/Homage)
Tony Harris/Wade von Grawbadger, Starman (DC)
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez/Kevin Nowlan, Dr. Strange Fate (DC)
Paul Smith, Leave It to Chance (Homage)
Charles Vess, Book of Ballads and Sagas (Green Man Press); Sandman #75
(DC/Vertigo)
Aron Weisenfeld/Richard Bennett, Deathblow and Wolverine
(Wildstorm/Image/Marvel)

Best Painter
Dan Brereton, Thrillkiller (DC)
Joseph Michael Linsner, Dawn (Sirius)
Miguelanxo Prado, Tangents (NBM)
Alex Ross, Kingdom Come (DC)

Best Coloring
Monica Bennett, Deathblow and Wolverine (Wildstorm/Image/Marvel)
Jeromy Cox, Leave It to Chance (Homage)
Matt Hollingsworth, Preacher;  Death: The Time of Your Life
(DC/Vertigo); Bloody Mary (DC/Helix); Challengers of the Unknown (DC)
Trish Mulvihill, Wonder Woman; Firebrand (DC); Batman and Captain
America (DC/Marvel)
Daniel Vozzo, The Invisibles; The Dreaming; The Sandman (DC/Vertigo)

Best Lettering
Todd Klein, The Sandman,: Death: The Time of Your Life; House of
Secrets; The Dreaming (DC/Vertigo); Batman; The Spectre; Kingdom Come
(DC)
Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo; Space Usagi (Dark Horse)
Dave Sim, Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Richard Starkings and Comicraft, Batman: The Long Halloween;
(DC);Generation X (Marvel)
Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Company #7 (Fantagraphics)

Best Cover Artist
Mark Chiarello, Terminal City (DC/Vertigo)
Tony Harris, Starman (DC)
Michael Kaluta, Books of Magic (DC/Vertigo);Vermillion (Helix)
Jerry Ordway, Power of Shazam (DC)
Alex Ross, Kingdom Come (DC); Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Jukebox
Productions/Homage)
Steve Rude, Nexus: Executioner's Song; Nexus/Madman (Dark Horse)

Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition
Ricardo Delgado, Age of Reptiles
Debbie Dreschler, Daddy's Girl; Nowhere
Jon "Bean" Hastings, Smith Brown Jones
Batton Lash, Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre
Gary Spencer Millidge, Strangehaven
Rob Walton, Ragmop

Best Editor
Tom Brevoort, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Daily Bugle
M. M. Carwald, Amalgam line
Andy Helfer, Gon; Big Book of Little Criminals (Paradox Press)
Scott Peterson/Mark Chiarello, Batman: Black & White  (DC)
Joe Pruett, Negative Burn (Caliber)
Dan Raspler, Kingdom Come; Hitman; The Spectre; Sergio Aragones Destroys
the DC Universe (DC)

Best Comics-Related Periodical
Comics Buyer's Guide (Krause Publications)
The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics)
Comic Relief (Page One)
Jack Kirby Collector (TwoMorrows)

Best Comics-Related Book
Alex Toth by Design, Alex Toth and Darrell McNeil (Gold Medal
Productions)
Batman Collected, Chip Kidd (Bullfinch Press/Little, Brown)
Graphic Storytelling, Will Eisner (Poorhouse Press)
Great Women Superheroes, Trina Robbins (Kitchen Sink)
National Cartoonists Society Album, 50th Anniversary edition, Bill
Janocha, ed. (NCS)

Best Comics-Related Product
Akiko Kimono limited print-Mark Crilley (Sirius)
Hellboy bust, Randy Bowen (Bowen Designs)
Jack Kirby portfolio (Dark Horse)
Kingdom Come cards (Skybox)
Lillith Limited print-Joe Linsner (Sirius)
Shi statue, Clayburn Moore (Moore Studios)

Best Publication Design
Acme Novelty Library #7, designed by Chris Ware (Fantagraphics)
Black Eye Productions publications, designed by Michel Vrana: Berlin
(with Jason Lutes), Dear Julia (with Brian Biggs), The Sands  (with Tom
Hart)
Buzz Buzz and Giant THB Parade, designed by Paul Pope and C. Rambler
(Horse Press)
Fax from Sarajevo, designed by Brian Gogolin (Dark Horse Books)
It's a Good Life ,If You Don't Weaken, designed by Seth (Drawn and
Quarterly)
Mr. Monster: Origins limited edition hardcover, designed by Richard
Bruning and Beatman/Brainstorm Unltd. (Graphitti)
The Sandman: The Wake hardcover edition, designed by Dave McKean
(DC/Vertigo)

Hall of Fame

Bill Everett        Al Feldstein
Bill Finger        Gardner Fox
Carmine Infantino    Gil Kane
Paul S. Newman    Charles Schulz
Julius Schwartz    E. C. Segar
Joe Simon        art spiegelman
Curt Swan


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Editor - indy Magazine          |    611 NW 34th Drive
College of Law - Univ of Florida  |    Gainesville, Florida 32607-2429
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