SPURGEON: So what’s next?

COTTER: No staples. At MoCCA people would come to the table getting books for review, and people would say, “We don’t want staples.” Chris maybe printed up 1500 of this and we just sold out of #1. I hear people say that when there’s a collection they might be interested in it.

—Josh Cotter, creator of the excellent comic series Skyscrapers of the Midwest, interviewed by Tom Spurgeon

It’s pretty striking to hear distaste for the pamphlet format expressed that nakedly, apparently by the sorts of people who write about comics for the world at large.

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