If you google “supply and demand,” this is what you’ll get. “the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.” Most of us get it, but as a personal exercise, I thought it would be interesting to apply this concept to several aspects of the comic book industry. Especially since the grumblings about the economics of this business seem to be louder than ever. 

Every hour, artists join others from around the world in the largest community of creators in the history of comics. Comics — that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We should be united in our common interests. Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from exclusivity, censorship, or editorial interference — but from mediocrity. We’re fighting for our right to draw, to write. And should we win the day, the 4th of July…