I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.
I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.
Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.
I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.