Somewhat buried in amongst the shit-flinging and butthurt of Nasser's stream today, was a brief but interesting discussion of the failings of traditional US comics:
I definitely agree about the European size being better than the traditional US floppy size. You can even take any good US comic, print it in European/international size, and it just automatically becomes about 15% better.
As for scheduling and page count, it's interesting to look at Bolland's early work - he did one of the first direct market 12-issue series for DC in the early 80s,
Camelot 3000 (where he struggled with the deadlines), and then followed it up with the prestige edition
The Killing Joke, where he says DC basically gave him no deadline, they let him work at his own pace.
As a Bolland/TKJ fan, I was surprised to see how pants his art is in Camelot 3K, compared to TKJ. Here's some examples for comparison:
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