Comments on: Valentine: serialized multilingual device-independent comics http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698626 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698626 It's available in Irish! That is awesome! It’s available in Irish! That is awesome!

]]> By: Shay http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698896 Shay Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698896 Great stuff! Great stuff!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698918 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698918 Jonathan, if you could find Alex an Esperanto translator, I'm betting she'd be down with doing an Esperanto translation! Jonathan, if you could find Alex an Esperanto translator, I’m betting she’d be down with doing an Esperanto translation!

]]> By: alexdecampi http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698464 alexdecampi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698464 Valentine will be available for laptop/computer reading within the next four weeks via one of our distributors for those (um, such as myself) without futurephones or futurebooks. It will be persistent, so if you buy it for iPhone you can then read it on the web and vice versa. Oh, and Episode 04 is due out February 17. There are monsters. - Alex Valentine will be available for laptop/computer reading within the next four weeks via one of our distributors for those (um, such as myself) without futurephones or futurebooks. It will be persistent, so if you buy it for iPhone you can then read it on the web and vice versa.

Oh, and Episode 04 is due out February 17. There are monsters.

- Alex

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698727 Jonathan Badger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698727 Sed ne en Esperanto, bedaurinde. Sed ne en Esperanto, bedaurinde.

]]> By: alexdecampi http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698839 alexdecampi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698839 We've actually had hundreds of downloads of the Irish version. Dead language, my arse! We’ve actually had hundreds of downloads of the Irish version. Dead language, my arse!

]]> By: Shay Guy http://boingboing.net/2010/01/27/valentine-multilingual-mobile-comic.html#comment-698869 Shay Guy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-698869 <i>The thing you also need to keep in mind is that comics overseas are far, far bigger than they are in America. In France and Japan, there are single issues of a bande dessinee or a manga tankubon that regularly outsell in volume the entire US comic industry's output for the year.</i> If you want some hard statistics on Japan, the most popular series of 2009 can be found <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-04/2009-top-selling-manga-in-japan-by-series">here</a> and individual volumes <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-03/2009-japanese-comic-ranking-no.1-25">here</a>. Those are almost-200-page-or-so paperback volumes being tracked. The most popular comic in Japan, One Piece, had a single volume sell 2,050,000 copies, sold 14,700,000 copies altogether in 2009, and in total, since it started in 1997, has sold 176,000,000 tankobon. (Watchmen fans may be amused to know that One Piece is about pirates.) How much do the top trade paperbacks in the US sell? How many trade paperbacks get sold total annually? And are there ANY major American comic IPs as recent as 1997? All I can think of are Runaways and Fables (Y: The Last Man probably shouldn't count, since it's concluded), and I don't think they're exactly heavy hitters. The thing you also need to keep in mind is that comics overseas are far, far bigger than they are in America. In France and Japan, there are single issues of a bande dessinee or a manga tankubon that regularly outsell in volume the entire US comic industry’s output for the year.

If you want some hard statistics on Japan, the most popular series of 2009 can be found here and individual volumes here. Those are almost-200-page-or-so paperback volumes being tracked. The most popular comic in Japan, One Piece, had a single volume sell 2,050,000 copies, sold 14,700,000 copies altogether in 2009, and in total, since it started in 1997, has sold 176,000,000 tankobon. (Watchmen fans may be amused to know that One Piece is about pirates.)

How much do the top trade paperbacks in the US sell? How many trade paperbacks get sold total annually? And are there ANY major American comic IPs as recent as 1997? All I can think of are Runaways and Fables (Y: The Last Man probably shouldn’t count, since it’s concluded), and I don’t think they’re exactly heavy hitters.

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