Book Standard on why self-published comics rule

Jessa Crispin talks about self-publishing at the Book Standard:

Self-publishing. The term has always had a ring of desperation. With the number of books published annually now reaching the hundreds of thousands, and after seeing the quality of a great percentage of those multitudes, it becomes easy to dismiss anything rejected by all publishers as unworthy. An author going the self-publishing route, then, is just someone not coming to terms with reality.

Except for when it comes to comic books. Some of the strongest writers and illustrators of comics have decided to dip into self-publishing from time to time. What makes that medium so different that going the self-publishing route isn’t so cringe-inducing—but rather a means of heightening credibility?

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