r/ImageComics • u/Konradleijon • May 15 '26

Comic Why can’t famous comic creators draw the same audience they once did

Kieron Gillen mentions having trouble selling Power Fantasy in comic stores and then was after he did his famous Krakoa X-Men run and more famous Once and Future, Die, and Wicked and Divine.

Why is it that creators who made great hits no longer sell comics

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u/LiterallyABigfoot May 15 '26

No, a graphic novel is still just a comic book. There has never been any need for comics to be released in installments. What makes comics comics is that they are books that tell story through sequential art as well as/instead of text, not that they are released in installments.

Your definition would mean that one-shot comics are not actually comics and I don't think anyone would be dumb enough to agree with that.

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u/BiDiTi May 16 '26

Excellent point!

We need to develop nomenclature to differentiate between one shots, comic books and GNs, just like we do between short films, TV series, and movies…or short stories, serials, and novels.

That said, only a fucking idiot would say that we should try to strip the formal differentiation between comic books and graphic novels, because we currently lack that nomenclature.

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u/LiterallyABigfoot May 16 '26

There is no formal differentiation between comic books and graphic novels because there shouldn't be. Graphic novels are just a form of comic book and the only people that would say otherwise are those that don't even know what graphic novels or comic books are.

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u/BiDiTi May 16 '26

Just like there’s no formal differentiation between film and television - that’s why Falcon and Winter Soldier works so well!

I’d love to bask in your genius as you explain why couplets, haikus, villanelles, and Homer are all the same, akshully!

Dunningn Kruger never fails to disappoint.

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u/LiterallyABigfoot May 16 '26

Just like there’s no formal differentiation between film and television

There is actually

I’d love to bask in your genius as you explain why couplets, haikus, villanelles, and Homer are all the same, akshully!

Wow, you dont even know that they are all types of poetry? You seriously didnt know this very obvious connection? Dunning kruger never fails to disappoint.

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u/BiDiTi May 16 '26

…Christ, it’s bad at reading.

And thinking.

Only that truly special combo could think this was good rebuttal.

I award you zero points…and may God have mercy on your soul.

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u/LiterallyABigfoot May 16 '26

If only you actually had any rebuttal instead of this cringy deflection lmao