I had a few of those too, but apparently they weren’t marked as kindle, but just other digital. Guess I’ll buy a movie.

Try this

Yeah, it’s the economics of scale. Fantagraphics is a specialty publisher with lower print runs than Marvel and DC, fewer merchandising opportunities, and, as such, most of their income comes from publishing, so they have to keep their prices higher. Also, the typical Fantagraphics reader is also willing to pay more than mainstream readers.

Looking at the Comixology site, they have some really good prices on the Love and Rockets Library volumes. $5.99 is quite a bargain for 250-300 pages of content when you consider a typical 20 page Marvel or DC book is $3.99.

Disclaimer that I have a couple friends who work at Fantagraphics, but I agree on these points. They’re a really small operation with a lot of niche titles that fans love but (I assume) don’t move a lot of volume. To this day, I’m surprised that they were able to land major projects like the Peanuts dailies and the Barks ducks, but I guess in the end those are kind of niche as well.

So yeah, I’m OK with paying 50+% off on sale, but I don’t go crazy either. I usually buy a handful of Disney/Peanuts books in each sale, figuring these are probably not going out of print any time soon, and eventually I’ll have all the ones I want. I also just picked up a Pogo to try.