Link: http://savageink.deviantart.com/
Howdy all,
Just a quick note to let you know that I have pretty much figured out how to get the front page of the site working and now I just have to design the bugger.
Hopefully, this won't take that long.
On the creative side, I have an armload of scripts and just need to get the site sorted out so I have time to work on drawing them....
In the meantime here is the link to my deviant art page 
Link: http://comipress.com/article/2008/12/31/3733
These are trade collection single volume sales numbers from 2008 in Japan:
(click the title to see the oricon numbers from 2008)
Rank Title (Volume #) Circulation
1 One Piece (50) 1,678,208
2 One Piece (51) 1,646,978
3 Nana 19) 1,645,128
4 One Piece (49) 1,544,000
5 Nana 20) 1,431,335
6 Nodame Cantabile (20) 1,209,551
7 Nodame Cantabile (21) 1,205,037
8 Naruto (43) 1,188,881
9 Naruto (42) 1,092,295
10 Fullmetal Alchemist (19) 1,081,575
I repeat... trade collections. Not new material. 
According to this page (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23158) Marvel as a whole company sold 113,136 in August. They are the top seller on the chart. Being incredibly kind if we use this number as an average then they sold 1,357,632 in the whole year of every trade they publish. The One Piece books in the top ten alone last year sold more copies then the entire industry in the US...ok, that may or may not be a slight exaggeration. Total Circulation for One Piece was 5,956,540. You can do the math to see if the two numbers are greater or less than.
The point being, what the hell are they doing right? And don't tell me captive train audience. I lived on those trains and people read alot of comics on them. But Jump is usually read weekly in the big fat collection. You have to actually want to read these again to go get the collections.
I almost had a heart attack when I saw that on the Political ticker on CNN.com....Looks like it's gubernatorial candidate Jay Nixon in the story. But that was frightening....Night of the Living Dead is not what we're aiming for here.
I voted, did you?
Hi all!
This is the first post in my new blog/homepage. It's been awhile, went to Japan, got married, came back, got several stinky jobs.....
Anyway, As you can see, this is still in Template-ville. I'll get to fixing it right quick like. Mr. Plow....errr Dang has his up and seems to be a bit further along in this template process. Go check out his new book, Greyduck.
I'm going to go beat more of this site into shape. More soon....
Justin Savage
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