What no one wants to admit about comic book sales (BONE video essay)

How did one guy completely upend the comic industry? Bone COMPLETE in Black and White (my personal preference) https://amzn.to/4iqCl8b Scholastic Color Edition (Great Color, great size for kids, very cheap way to get started) Volume 1 https://amzn.to/3ZO9DXP Complete Set - https://amzn.to/4fjpn9A Bone COMPLETE in color https://amzn.to/49xVaSW *Bone Oversized Hardcover Kickstarter* https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cartoonbooks/bone-deluxe-edition-part-one-the-valley Comix Experience Book Club https://www.comixexperience.com/graphic-novel-club Space Boy Omnibus Volume 1 https://amzn.to/3ZrEBn3 (As an Amazon Affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases) *Sources* Sales figures quoted are from Brian Hibbs’ Columns: 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110809095703/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30752 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160810091013/http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/tilting-at-windmills-bookscan-2015-analysis 2023 https://www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-windmills-297-bookscan-2023-comics-sales-sag-but-scholastic-was-still-a-powerhouse/ 2019 Comic Sales Data https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2019.html *Credits* Photos & Videos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SR_Van_Nuys_Bar.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rum,_Manhattan,_Tequila_Old_Fashioned.jpg https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll115/id/1055/rec/5 https://www.milehighcomics.com/sandiego/sdcc2004/thursday/leftcon.GIF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQIhRdjWPkE&t=94s Edit: https://www.youtube.com/@HowtoReadComics Intro Animation: Rádi Everything Else: matttt