Comics and newspapers are very different in terms of the transition to digital. The content of a newspaper isn't as unique as in a comic book. If you aren't getting your news about the Malaysian flight from a pay news site, you can go get it from a free news site. If you want the latest issue of Batman, you either pay for it in print/digitally or steal it. So physical newspapers will die legally, comics will die through illegality.



But we want to keep the comic shops going through physical product. And you can do that in instances where art matters, where the physical Chris Ware book is so beautiful and well made that a digital version makes little-to-no sense. Our single issues aren't of the Chris Ware level of physical beauty, obviously, but we have a degree of collectability happening and our trades are going to look as good as we can make them. Also, people like to see their name in print in our letters page! That permanence is still a thing. Also, people like to support comic shops and creators! It's a community and will survive through fostering that sense of community.







The funny thing is, the digital portion of our plan was important at first because we knew there would be areas of the States where getting physical copies of our sex comic would be tricky. But then Apple made it harder for people to get the issues, which drove people to the physical copies. Our subject matter actually made physical comics MORE relevant.



But really, digital versus physical is a question that can be best answered by my associate. Ryan?