{"id":910,"date":"2008-01-04T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:48:33","slug":"the-beat%e2%80%99s-annual-news-survey-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"The Beat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Annual News Survey, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/beat.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"beat.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"53\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of each year, the comics\/pop culture news site <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beat<\/a> asks a handful of comics folks what they&#8217;ll be working on in the coming year, what they think the big story was from the past year, and what they predict the big story will be in the coming year.\u00c2\u00a0 I was among the folks asked to chime in on this year&#8217;s survey and the results are now posted <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/the-beats-annual-survey-2008-edition-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a common element to the responses about the big story, it&#8217;s the growing adoption of digital media and distribution methods by the comics industry, even including some of the bigger players this year.\u00c2\u00a0 (The other trend, apparently, is to ignore the &#8220;do not use the &#8216;big story of 2008&#8217; question to pimp your own work.)\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth checking out, and the second installment should be up soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of each year, the comics\/pop culture news site The Beat asks a handful of comics folks what they&#8217;ll be working on in the coming year, what they think the big story was from the past year, and what they predict the big story will be in the coming year.\u00c2\u00a0 I was among &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=910\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-eG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}