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400 euros' worth of comics:
Just in case anyone is wondering what those 400 euros got me in the past six months:
Donna Barr: The Desert Peach (complete); Stinz (complete?); Bosom Enemies (complete?); other stuff (mostly very relevant indeed, I think - some still unread)
Colleen Doran: A Distant Soil 1-4 (still haven't decided how relevant this is thematically - apart from its historical significance)
Roberta Gregory: Winging It 1-2 (highly relevant)
Rod Espinosa: Neotopia 1-4 (relevance doubtful, not self-published, but at least it's pretty *g*)
Rachel Hartman: Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming (relevant, but probably not going to be a main focus due to incompleteness)
Layla Lawlor: Raven's Children 2 (I already had part 1; fairly relevant, I think)
David Mack: Kabuki 2, 4 (not self-published, but features some interesting stuff about identity that sort of struck a chord. Also: pretty. I don't have the money to buy the entire series, so this is just to get a general kind of impression, really.)
Linda Medley: Castle Waiting, vol. 1 (fairly relevant, but probably not central to whatever argument I'm going to end up making)
Paul Pope: PulpHope (Not a comic, really, but since I can't get THB before 2009, this seemed like the best option for getting an impression of the man and his work; I have a strange gut feeling he may be relevant.)
Dave Roman, John Green: Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden 1-2 (mostly irrelevant, but fun)
Dave Sim: Cerebus: High Society (just to get an impression - hasn't arrived yet. Definitely historically relevant.)
Mark Smylie: Artesia 1-3 (fairly relevant, possibly)
Teri Wood: Wandering Star (haven't read enough yet to judge relevance)
Not all of these are strictly relevant for my work. Some don't quite fit thematically, others aren't really all that 'independent' (I still want to focus mainly on self-published books)... but I needed to get something *approaching* an overview of the field, and it's really difficult to find any literature about it. Obviously, this small a selection still does not qualify me to really claim I 'know' the field of indie/self-published sf and fantasy. But reading as widely as I could under the circumstances definitely helped me to develop some ideas, although they're all still very vague.
Donna Barr: The Desert Peach (complete); Stinz (complete?); Bosom Enemies (complete?); other stuff (mostly very relevant indeed, I think - some still unread)
Colleen Doran: A Distant Soil 1-4 (still haven't decided how relevant this is thematically - apart from its historical significance)
Roberta Gregory: Winging It 1-2 (highly relevant)
Rod Espinosa: Neotopia 1-4 (relevance doubtful, not self-published, but at least it's pretty *g*)
Rachel Hartman: Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming (relevant, but probably not going to be a main focus due to incompleteness)
Layla Lawlor: Raven's Children 2 (I already had part 1; fairly relevant, I think)
David Mack: Kabuki 2, 4 (not self-published, but features some interesting stuff about identity that sort of struck a chord. Also: pretty. I don't have the money to buy the entire series, so this is just to get a general kind of impression, really.)
Linda Medley: Castle Waiting, vol. 1 (fairly relevant, but probably not central to whatever argument I'm going to end up making)
Paul Pope: PulpHope (Not a comic, really, but since I can't get THB before 2009, this seemed like the best option for getting an impression of the man and his work; I have a strange gut feeling he may be relevant.)
Dave Roman, John Green: Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden 1-2 (mostly irrelevant, but fun)
Dave Sim: Cerebus: High Society (just to get an impression - hasn't arrived yet. Definitely historically relevant.)
Mark Smylie: Artesia 1-3 (fairly relevant, possibly)
Teri Wood: Wandering Star (haven't read enough yet to judge relevance)
Not all of these are strictly relevant for my work. Some don't quite fit thematically, others aren't really all that 'independent' (I still want to focus mainly on self-published books)... but I needed to get something *approaching* an overview of the field, and it's really difficult to find any literature about it. Obviously, this small a selection still does not qualify me to really claim I 'know' the field of indie/self-published sf and fantasy. But reading as widely as I could under the circumstances definitely helped me to develop some ideas, although they're all still very vague.