Up until this point, this blog has only touched upon the big picture of the DC Entertainment vs. Barnes and Noble issue. The Executives of DC Entertainment, Barnes and Noble, and Books A' Million all think that their side is right and they are doing what is right for their business and customers. However, one side that often gets overlooked are the creators of the books themselves. They are the ones that will suffer the most from this disagreement. Michael Civina, of the Washington Post's comic division Comic Riffs, interviewed two very influential creators in the comics industry and here is what they had to say.
-Neil Gaiman, acclaimed creator of the Sandman series from Vertigo(DC's mature readers division), feels that Barnes and Noble's decision is very strange as the loss of DC's digital output would not bring the company down. He also feels slighted as a creator as about 12% of the titles that were removed were written by him.
-David Lloyd, artist of comic book turned major motion picture V for Vendetta, feels that Barnes and Noble refusing to sell physical copies of the books is hypocritical to their purpose of giving customers all choices.
-Fábio Moon, Brazilian artist of Vertigo comic Daytripper, believes that non super-hero comics like his have a harder time attracting readers and thus have more of a need for big bookstores in addition to direct comic shops in order to survive.
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