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Nov 19 11 4:48 PM
Pimp My Shelf wrote:Hasn't the response to Terry and the Pirates been phenomenal enough to convince them to continue that series into its George Wunder years?
Hasn't the response to Terry and the Pirates been phenomenal enough to convince them to continue that series into its George Wunder years?
The response to TERRY has been phenomenal enough to convince us to do CANIFF and STEVE CANYON, but no immediate plans to do the Wunder TERRY (although anything is possible, eventually). Reasons being: [A] Dean, Lorraine, and I are major Caniff fans, so getting Milton’s work collected is a priority for us, and [B] while I’m probably prejudiced, I believe the visual/narrative drop-off from Caniff-to-Wunder on TERRY is far more noticeable than the same drop-off from Raymond-to-Prentice on RIP.
Re: possibility of inexpensive trades, more Blondie or more modern strip reprints:
POINT THE FIRST: We released our first Library of American Comics (LOAC) paperback — THE BEST OF DICK TRACY — earlier this year, and we’re watching its performance very carefully. Even before BEST OF TRACY, we’ve talked about the possibility of doing a batch of LOAC paperbacks, as well as trying out some experimental formats (how’s that for a tease? Can’t say any more about “experiments” right now, but …). We continue to have those discussions. One problem is, there are only so many assets — time, money, staff members — to be expended, so our ability to launch projects has its limits (already, our motto is: “Sleep is overrated!”).What you wrote makes me think you may be assuming a correlation between BLONDIE/format/sales and coming to a potentially-misleading conclusion. BLONDIE Volume 1 sold nicely for us (and continues to sell); we expect Volume 2 to perform just about as well. Our plans from the outset were to do two BLONDIEs, then pause and decide where to go from there. As you know from Volume 1, the original BLONDIE material is so different from the “familiar” BLONDIE everyone knows, we wanted to make sure the market was there for The Great Old Bumstead Stuff. So we’ll release Volume 2 (which I found great fun, by the way — I’d never read much of that material before the book started coming together!), then we’ll take a look at sales. If the signs all look positive, BLONDIE could go on from there, much in the same way we’re doing a BRINGING UP FATHER companion volume next year because the first one did so well.POINT THE SECOND: An excellent question about more modern strips and whether they’d sell enough in paperback format to make them viable. Right now, WIZARD OF ID and BEETLE BAILEY have started appearing in hardcover from a non-LOAC publisher (I bought my copies straight from Westfield, where I’ve been a customer for *mumble-mumble* years!). I think the “more modern” strips aren’t getting full attention right at this moment in part because there is so much amazing older stuff that urgently needs and deserves the best treatment we can provide it. I’d bet this doesn’t mean strips like B.C. and HI & LOIS won’t get their day in the sun, in one format or another — but they _will_ have to wait their turn.
POINT THE FIRST: We released our first Library of American Comics (LOAC) paperback — THE BEST OF DICK TRACY — earlier this year, and we’re watching its performance very carefully. Even before BEST OF TRACY, we’ve talked about the possibility of doing a batch of LOAC paperbacks, as well as trying out some experimental formats (how’s that for a tease? Can’t say any more about “experiments” right now, but …). We continue to have those discussions. One problem is, there are only so many assets — time, money, staff members — to be expended, so our ability to launch projects has its limits (already, our motto is: “Sleep is overrated!”).
What you wrote makes me think you may be assuming a correlation between BLONDIE/format/sales and coming to a potentially-misleading conclusion. BLONDIE Volume 1 sold nicely for us (and continues to sell); we expect Volume 2 to perform just about as well. Our plans from the outset were to do two BLONDIEs, then pause and decide where to go from there. As you know from Volume 1, the original BLONDIE material is so different from the “familiar” BLONDIE everyone knows, we wanted to make sure the market was there for The Great Old Bumstead Stuff. So we’ll release Volume 2 (which I found great fun, by the way — I’d never read much of that material before the book started coming together!), then we’ll take a look at sales. If the signs all look positive, BLONDIE could go on from there, much in the same way we’re doing a BRINGING UP FATHER companion volume next year because the first one did so well.
POINT THE SECOND: An excellent question about more modern strips and whether they’d sell enough in paperback format to make them viable. Right now, WIZARD OF ID and BEETLE BAILEY have started appearing in hardcover from a non-LOAC publisher (I bought my copies straight from Westfield, where I’ve been a customer for *mumble-mumble* years!). I think the “more modern” strips aren’t getting full attention right at this moment in part because there is so much amazing older stuff that urgently needs and deserves the best treatment we can provide it. I’d bet this doesn’t mean strips like B.C. and HI & LOIS won’t get their day in the sun, in one format or another — but they _will_ have to wait their turn.
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