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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:39 pm
by cyberrich
jaz wrote:cyberrich wrote:I hope the 2012 Avengers calendar isn't the very last one to see the light of day. Rich.
I enjoyed designing them too - the best bit was spending most of the year tracking down rare pictures from various archives and vaults
And a brilliant job you did there Jaz!
I've kept all the old calendars from 1998. I think there's 14 if I remember correctly. Terrific photos, some quite rare. I also loved the miniature photos and bits of info surrounding the dates.
I spent a happy hour looking through them all this week. I really hope we see their return one day, but I know it's a copywrite issue.
Rich.
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 8:57 pm
by jaz
cyberrich wrote:jaz wrote:cyberrich wrote:I hope the 2012 Avengers calendar isn't the very last one to see the light of day. Rich.
I enjoyed designing them too - the best bit was spending most of the year tracking down rare pictures from various archives and vaults
And a brilliant job you did there Jaz!
I've kept all the old calendars from 1998. I think there's 14 if I remember correctly. Terrific photos, some quite rare. I also loved the miniature photos and bits of info surrounding the dates.
I spent a happy hour looking through them all this week. I really hope we see their return one day, but I know it's a copywrite issue.
Rich.
Nothing really to do with copyright - more to do with very poor sales and you can't go on producing a product where you barely break even.
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:43 pm
by cyberrich
jaz wrote:cyberrich wrote:jaz wrote:
Nothing really to do with copyright - more to do with very poor sales and you can't go on producing a product where you barely break even.
Oh dear, that's even worse than I thought. I was thinking it was because Canal had the rights to all images. Poor sales means there's no hope of their returning.
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 1:37 pm
by Lando
cyberrich wrote:jaz wrote:cyberrich wrote:
Oh dear, that's even worse than I thought. I was thinking it was because Canal had the rights to all images. Poor sales means there's no hope of their returning.
Bummer.
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:18 pm
by jaz
From the sales figures, most people waiting until the calendars were in the sale, reduced to something like £2.99 before buying it. So sales got gradually worse, retailers stopped stocking titles they were losing money on and the whole calendar market was saturated by hundreds of different titles. I doubt we'll see the calendar again.