{"id":3998,"date":"2009-11-10T21:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2009-11-10T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:01:04","slug":"canadian-splendour-dq-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Splendour: D&#038;Q Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/d+q-bookbag-design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3999\" title=\"d+q-bookbag-design\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/d+q-bookbag-design-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"d+q-bookbag-design\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/d+q-bookbag-design-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/d+q-bookbag-design.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Venerable Canadian Graphic Novel Publisher Drawn &amp; Quarterly has just received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianbusiness.com\/managing\/strategy\/article.jsp?content=20091109_10019_10019\" target=\"_blank\">a glowing company profile<\/a> from <em>Canadian Business Magazine, <\/em>and writer Jason McBride. The business beat is pretty far outside my normal reading, but I enjoyed reading this take on the publisher. Essentially, McBride comes to the conclusion that D&amp;Q&#8217;s unprecedented creator control, absolute creative freedom, and\u00a0extravagant\u00a0book design all add up to a winning formula for publishing in a down economy\u2014and an economy growing increasingly hostile to books.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is peppered with quotes from Beguiling boss-man Peter Birkemoe, author and academic Jeet Heer, and even &#8220;The Chief&#8221;, Publisher Chris Oliveros himself. It also\u2014being a business article\u2014even has some hard sales numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;D&amp;Q\u2019s fastest bestseller, Chester Brown\u2019s Louis Riel, an improbable \u201ccomic strip biography\u201d of the controversial 19th-century M\u00e9tis leader, sold 10,000 copies in its first season, and to date has sold more than 36,000, more than most bestselling books in Canada. Publishers Weekly called it a \u201cmajor achievement.\u201d &#8221;\u00a0<strong>&#8211; Jason McBride, <\/strong><strong>Canadian Business <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats on such a glowing profile to the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drawn &amp; Quarterly<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venerable Canadian Graphic Novel Publisher Drawn &amp; Quarterly has just received a glowing company profile from Canadian Business Magazine, and writer Jason McBride. The business beat is pretty far outside my normal reading, but I enjoyed reading this take on the publisher. Essentially, McBride comes to the conclusion that D&amp;Q&#8217;s unprecedented creator control, absolute creative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian Splendour: D&#038;Q Profile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}