BW’s Saturday Article Link> What Caused The Current Comic Crash

Comics as a medium survived Fredrick Wertham and an incompetently enforced Comics Code. The rise of stores that only sold comics and comics related merchandise should be evidence of that. Recently, however, comic stores either had to build beyond that or go out of business, and the industry is in freefall while the emperor dusts off the fiddle. Activism and the current pecking order are only partly to blame. Writing for Brian Neumeier’s Kairos blog we have this commentary by Soul Cycle Books going over how comics started making mistake after mistake and have slowly reduced the industry to a shadow of what it once was and I think he nails it perfectly.