On October 18th, 2013, ComicsAlliance published an editorial by Matt D. Wilson titled What Does A Number One Issue Mean? In that piece, Matt criticized American comic book publishers’ reliance on the “all-new #1 issue” scheme, describing it as a “myth” with respect to creative direction and a “stunt” with respect to sales.

After reading Matt’s piece, I wrote a response which the site agreed to publish. At the time, it was explained to me that they didn’t have the budget to pay me for the piecce, but that I would retain my rights to what was published. This has been pretty good in the long run as I get to do what I want with the piece, unlike the majority of the other articles CA ran, which were done under “work-for-hire” contracts.

You can read the whole thing over at The Indirect Market, where I somewhat irregularly dig into the world of comics retail, journalism and art.