Streaming TV, Films Drive Surge In Graphic Novel Sales By Heidi MacDonald | Apr 21, 2021
As the number and popularity of such streaming services as Netflix, and Disney+ continue to grow, many of these services have turned to adapting comics and graphic novels which have gone on to become some of their biggest hit shows.
Comics properties that have been adapted range from eccentric indie comics titles–for example, Charles Forsman’s
The End of the F World on Netflix–to highly promoted superhero franchise series, among them
WandaVision on Disney+ and
The Boys on Amazon Prime. All of these shows have led to increased graphic novel sales, but along the way publishers have had to adapt and find new strategies to capitalize on their popularity on streaming media.
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A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking.
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Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place.
Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, is announcing some early programing elements of what will be a digital event running May 25 to 27.
The programming announced today by the show’s producer,
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