Project: New Man 1 Inside Back Cover
The Adventures Continue… This inside back cover gives more insght into where we were back in 1991.
Mark’s Remarks: Still very green in the business, we canceled Project: New Man™ #2 and rescheduled Humants #1 as well as increased it’s size to accomodate both the Humants story and the second story of Project: New Man™.
This did not endear us to the distributors as we and many other independents were to find out. Canceling and rescheduling was a mistake which played a key role in Distributors further cutting back promoting Independents. At the time we felt we had no choice because of the low order numbers for P:NM #1. We had little operating capital and a double size single issue saved us a lot of money at the printers.
In the long run it did not matter anyway, the so called Direct Market became a bigger joke than the old Newstand Market. Even for the bigger companies it did not work all the time. If you ever wondered why a title by a giant in the industry like Jack Kirby or Neal Adams got canceled it’s real simple, LIMITED OR NO DISTRIBUTION. That’s right, the books never made it to a lot of stands and did not get into the hands of the fans. It still happens today. The World Wide Web is a much better Direct Market for comic books.
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The Adventures Continue… This inside back cover gives more insght into where we were back in 1991. Still very green in the business, we canceled Project: New Man #2 and rescheduled Humants #1 as well as increased it’s size to accomidate both the Humants story and the second story of Project: New Man.
This did not endear us to the distributors as we and many other independents were to find out. Canceling and rescheduling was a mistake which played a key role in Distributors further cutting back promoting Independents. At the time we felt we had no choice because of the low order numbers for P:NM #1. We had little operating capital and a double size single issue saved us a lot of money at the printers.
In the long run it did not matter anyway, the so called Direct Market became a bigger joke than the old Newstand Market. Even for the bigger companies it did not work all the time. If you ever wondered why a title by a giant in the industry like Jack Kirby or Neal Adams got canceled it’s real simple, LIMITED OR NO DISTRIBUTION. That’s right, the books never made it to a lot of stands and did not get into the hands of the fans. It still happens today. The World Wide Web is a much better Direct Market for comic books.
