Want to understand how tariffs might affect your favorite comics and collected editions printed in Canada, China, and the EU? The Comics Journal published an outstanding explainer earlier this month.
https://www.tcj.com/what-will-potential-tariffs-mean-for-comics-publishers-in-2025-well-likely-have-less-customers/
https://www.tcj.com/what-will-potential-tariffs-mean-for-comics-publishers-in-2025-well-likely-have-less-customers/
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“Print costs are extremely scale sensitive. Publishers who are producing work with larger print runs will still be able to find margin ... Smaller publishers simply will not have that luxury.”
“It's not like there are paper mills and printing presses just waiting to have the lights turned back on. Even if the tariffs spurred a long term investment ... it would take years and a lot of publishers may well go out of business”