RIP? The Comics Buyers Guide

You've probably seen it reported on other blogs, the comics industry press websites, or on Facebook and Diaspora*: the Comic Buyers Guide will be no more as of this upcoming March.

I first encountered it as a weekly newspaper in my teen years in Saskatchewan. Found out about via one of its sister publications, Comics Collector, if memory serves. It was one of many discoveries I made during those years about the wider comics community actually being a real thing. Collecting for fun or for profit, gathering with like-minded people in clubs of one sort or another...all of this was new to me then. CBG helped make it real, even before the move to Ottawa. 

If it's truly the end of the brand, I'll miss it. If someone out there's of a mind and possessed of the means to rescue the brand and work some new magic with it for future generations, I'll thank them for that. Certainly, the art form and industry have changed over the decades, and perhaps CBG has to vanish for a while before being reworked for new decades to come.

I'll be sad to see it forever gone.