Brian Nicholson says:

I don’t know, sometimes I imagine that I am some kind of archivist for some kid that will come along in five to ten years who missed the stuff. With that Renee French collection Oni put out, or Rogan Gosh, or the Bongo Jimbo issues, or Ninja (now out of print!). [probably this is what everyone who bought a copy of Kramers Ergot 7 was thinking] Do you think it will be replaced by things on a peer to peer level? That all there will be is art school freshman making autobio minicomics (or webcomics, more likely) about their last year in high school? That seems unlikely to me, because of how unrewarding it would be for anyone with the slightest bit of self-awareness.

When I hang out in record stores it is inevitable that a dude in his fifties will come in and talk about how crazy it is that places still sell vinyl and will then need to be told that records never stopped being pressed. And what sells the most is reissues. Even if that particular comics-nerd-fandom-history dies, the thing that made a kid in 1985 sad he missed the Dark Phoenix Saga, there will still be a dissatisfaction with the work being made “of the moment.” I’m waiting for a world comics boom to satisfy the true seekers. (I AM PISSED that if I want to get my hands on some Anke Feuchtenberg work I have to go to MOCCA. Sparkplug was selling it at cons back on the west coast back when I couldn’t afford it and maybe that’s still the case.)