tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post3850750184222547478..comments2024-02-29T14:12:01.955-05:00Comments on Flashback Universe Blog: Minimum Wage ComicsJim Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05006833955333061262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post-92132259694171278952012-04-09T18:45:18.176-04:002012-04-09T18:45:18.176-04:00There is a reason for the un-even rise, at least s...There is a reason for the un-even rise, at least somewhat.<br /><br />In the late 1980s and early 1990s two things happened in regards to color printing that would effect the cost. The most direct was there was a dramatic increase in the cost of paper, obviously a big component of the cost of printing. The other was the rise in popularity of offset printing, epitomized for the newspaper industry by the popularity and competition presented by USA Today. Offset printing meant using better newsprint paperstock (whose prices would be climbing) as well as more ink and possibly even better quality ink.<br /><br />Depending on where they printed their comics, slowly moving the line over to offset, may not have been much of a choice. With the increased demand for better printing than the old letterpress, it might have been harder to even find letterpress printers as printing companies began updating their decades old presses to either offset or to flexo (which I think Marvel used for a time, a little before it really came into its own). Nowadays, finding presses that print full color on the old newsprint (and finding that in bulk), it's probably no longer a feasible option for a major publisher.cash_gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12071052539938367439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778276361957351199.post-60208823200909173222012-04-03T08:20:30.503-04:002012-04-03T08:20:30.503-04:00Certainly, I think comics have grown quicker than ...Certainly, I think comics have grown quicker than the rise in minimum wage. The question is, what has been the rise of inflation over that period? It may be minimum wage that has fallen behind not comics getting disporportionally pricey.<br /><br />Movies being "more or less" in line with minimum wage is sort of dubious. Federal minimum wage is between 7 and 8 now--at best that's a non-3D matinee price, and a lot of places not that.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com