Yesterday began to spread this link Comic Guide. Today, we are talking paragraph has been deleted, but the content was:
Notes: The award for best fanzine have been nominated Adobo, Andergraun , The Naufraguito and Zocalo , but we ignore this category again this year in the previous Talba, given the obsolescence of the award and consider the low coverage with the printed fanzines today compared to on-line comics (which is what makes most of chavalería today when wants to be known, although Ficomic do not know it yet.)
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Although an identical last year, went unnoticed, this paragraph of Joseph A. Serrano, now inaccessible except by the cache of google, apparently built blisters. In it, he suggested to Ficomic eliminate the award for Best Fanzine preferred "Ignore" since according to him, the organization had "heard" that the webcomics was what made most of the chavalería to be released. Later, after deleting the original paragraph, in that other post said their opinion by comparing the fanzines with short or models of a group. Zinesters different reactions in twitter (including my own, make no mistake) fueled the debate, and is ... Zines are they obsolete?
Well, anyone can deduct my opinion. Is clear and well written in large letters the title of this text. Paragraph original is written from the outside, and is more than an opinion, a deduction rather vague and without merit. It is based on the mantra repeated ad nauseam that says "Internet is the future" (or as Álex de la Iglesia said, "The Internet is the present"). Is the Internet the future and the present? Of course, but that has not eliminated paper publications. Is not the same a comic or a book than a record. The comic paper publications are not far from obsolete, but on the contrary, it seems that in recent years are on the rise. Maybe in a decade have to rectify this post, under the circumstances, but today I can say without blushing that fully know what the future of comics in digital broadcasting, or what formats and media will be used for marketing. All we can venture, but nothing is clear. Therefore, if the professional literature have not been this change that the music has assimilated (blessed spotify and iTunes), there is, at least today, the alleged parallels with the comic. Publications amateurs physical, remain as valid today in the comic as the day it began to emerge. Claiming that the fanzines are obsolete for that reason, it is exactly the same as saying that the comics are.
Yo hablo como fanzinero, ojo. Como editor del fanzine Andergraün, uno de los nominados que se mencionaban en el primer párrafo, y por tanto, afectado directo por esas palabras. Lo digo, claro, para poneros en situación, pero sin ningún rencor, o mala intención hacia la gente de Guía del Cómic cuya labor me parece magnífica. Solo quiero dejar clara cuál es la impresión que se da desde dentro, y me parece admirable defender una opinión así desde un medio como ese. Quizá haya sido desafotunada la ola de reacciones que ha desencadenado y con la que intento acabar con este post.
Se trata de una visión muy cerrada y ajena a la realidad opinion that online comics are the means used by most to be released. We all know that a publisher can not glean from the webcomics when deciding to be published next month, as well as not kicking the fanzines area looking for new talent. Future authors themselves are the ones that move their work, either in support or otherwise. But each goes his way, on-line comics are still in diapers, pardon the expression. "Matches a visit to a sale on a zine?
If you want to let you know as an artist, making superheroes ... you would through a comic book on-line? What if you want to make your own cartoon long? The webcomics are fine, and are an excellent, inexpensive and accessible for anyone. The problem is that currently, they are a format suitable for humor strips with a final gag, and anything you leave these parameters do not have the same host. Bartual Manuel said in an interview with the fanzine cost horrors to be seen and that the distribution was a horror. I myself completely abandon my fanzine on paper if it were true that the webcomics I was not going to cost the same, or make me see. The competition is too great, precisely because it is an excellent, inexpensive and accessible. And many of these people, just do it for fun, not to find a place in the scene.
And the chavalería? Why decant? It is funny, because anyone, who truly want to be known, is left alone with a medium. Any fanzine known to have some broadcast needs to have its counterpart on the Internet, and by some strange coincidence, most end webcomiqueros published on paper. Verily, the group WEE, to gain experience, use a newspaper printed fanzine group made up of several short stories. What show (or rather, what rebate) that?
Many English publishers would occur with a song in the teeth if a run of 1000 copies (between 1000 and 1500 are copies of any English comic) sold half. Or if they knew that the vast majority of those who have bought their comics, will be back for more. Well, I can name more than a dozen fanzines that easily meet or exceed these figures. Ourselves, we exhausted fanzines 1000 runs in a period of between 3 and 6 months (and has been with the numbers 1 and 2, and No. 3 are close to 750 copies sold after 5 months since its release print). And I know that about half of people who have bought since its release, repeat. Can you say any editor that has a publicly insured as to amortize toss, to publish regularly?
Are fanzines or obsolete then editing techniques and marketing of the publishers that are closest to us?
can not say it is obsolete, it is more, every day I see emerging publications. The stands of the areas of fanzines in all rooms of the comic in the country are overcrowded to the point that many are forced to share stands no cost sharing, but to have a hole. I dare say that there is even a golden age of fanzines if we look to the manga. There are reports of young corals authors that gain experience and publish their first work, doing parodies of anime or sex-tinged versions of your favorite series are published periodically and figures reaching well beyond the five hundred copies sold. And do not talk about individual cases, but this is the norm, as usual. It's easy to join the mass to say that the media on paper is outdated and is used little if we do not bother to find out if it is true, or look in the opposite direction.
now appears that no one can come to know very well what he is talking about and ask Ficomic to change the prizes. We saw a couple of months (what to ask, do not not know what is spoken) with some supposedly categories controversial, as some leading figures of the scene also commented on Twitter (social networking fashion, and relatively reliable source of information par excellence) that the system was obsolete and should be renewed. But is it the right way to do it by the side definitely zines? Obviously not. Expocómic and realized last year that two awards can live, not exclusive. This is not to be known only through fanzines or through webcomics.
Of course, many years and many people struggling and spending his time in demanding better conditions Ficomic (and to a lesser extent the organization in any event) ... What is the point if even half the cases diffusers support us?
Maybe we should start doing the same fanzines in hardcover, graphic novels, call them and sell them at 15 euros at the Fnac. Let's see if we stopped being obsolete.
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