Hey Brandon, I recently read an article entailing an artist's recurring financial woes due to their stellar books being unable to attract an audience in the direct market. This made me think about 8-house and I became curious about your take on this? Have

I assume this was about low orders on Spy Seal (a book that I’m pretty excited about) 

8House was kind of a marketing mess. I was trying to find new ways to give more time to the work & kind of build it on the way. It ended because Emma and Hwei’s Mirror sold better without the 8house stamp on it.

Mirror continues and is amazing if you haven’t read it.

Image books do sell pretty good as trades so just doing those might be a good idea. I feel like the advantage of issues is almost to test out how the work looks in print and give readers and retailers an idea of the book month after month so they remember it.

Maybe something set up like a Scott Pilgrim or Empowered with a book a year would work. I’m so stuck on issues with my stuff– but maybe less on sales and more that it’s nice to have work on shelves more often than once a year. 

but yeah, all that said the business of comics seems to be in a weird place right now. It feels to me like there’s some fantastic work but spread thin all around. while corporate comics flood the market. –and not a lot of places to go for news that will actually get you excited about what is going on in shops.