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Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics
Buyer's Guide, or CBG,
was published first as a bimonthly, then a monthly, then a biweekly,
and a weekly newspaper. My first issue as a reader was #538 and as an
associate editor was around #1054.
I was long since out of the day-to-day production of the magazine,
working on our book projects, when in early 2004 when I was brought
back in to help create new designs and workflows for CBG as a giant
monthly magazine. Discussions had been under way for the publication to
make the big jump to become a mass-market periodical for some time, and
with some breakthroughs in our database project allowing a robust
monthly price guide, we relaunched in June 2004 with a publication that
retained much of its original character while adding lots of new
features.
One of those features is my opinion column, Longbox Manifesto,
wherein I look at issues of the day from the perspective of the
longtime comics collector — it seems everyone else had an advocate, so
it was about time!
TRIVIA
- Comics Buyer's Guide was originally known as The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom — and was known throughout the hobby as TBG. It took many years for the new acronym to catch on, and even now some of the original readers recall it by those initials!
