Lore Sjöberg over at Wired News writes today about the Alternative Press Expo, which took place in San Francisco this past weekend.
The moral to the story? “[T]he printed page still has a cachet that the Web can’t hope to match.”
For once, print truly seems to reign over the realm of the techno-savvy. I’d have to say that having something like a comic book in hand is definitely a good thing. Recently, I purchased the first comics I’ve bought in years, the Marvel 1602 series issues 1, 2, and the current #7. I haven’t read comic books in a really long time - what I did notice was a lack of “grain” to the pages, but that’s okay - it’s that it’s drawn art in a different way, and the story was catchy.
Those of us who think paper publications are anywhere near their death knell are far from on target, it would seem - at least from this “alternative” press perspective.
