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leveret1 wrote: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? Canwell comments: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.
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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Created in 1923 in Life magazine, Skippy moved to the comics pages in 1925 and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. In 1931 it became the first comic strip to see its film version win an Academy Award. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. The strip, sadly, is not well known today, but we see in Skippy the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips. Percy Crosby influenced cartoonists from Charles Schulz to Walt Kelly to Garry Trudeau, and perhaps more than any other cartoonist before him brought philosophy and politics to the American newspaper comic strip. In the end, it would be his outspoken political and philosophical beliefs that would place him increasingly outside the mainstream of 1940s American culture, ultimately leading to his exile from comics and his forced incarceration in a mental institution for the last sixteen years of his life. As a result of his tragic end, Crosby's remarkable contributions to American culture have been largely eclipsed, until now.
Created in 1923 in Life magazine, Skippy moved to the comics pages in 1925 and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. In 1931 it became the first comic strip to see its film version win an Academy Award. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945.
The strip, sadly, is not well known today, but we see in Skippy the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips. Percy Crosby influenced cartoonists from Charles Schulz to Walt Kelly to Garry Trudeau, and perhaps more than any other cartoonist before him brought philosophy and politics to the American newspaper comic strip. In the end, it would be his outspoken political and philosophical beliefs that would place him increasingly outside the mainstream of 1940s American culture, ultimately leading to his exile from comics and his forced incarceration in a mental institution for the last sixteen years of his life. As a result of his tragic end, Crosby's remarkable contributions to American culture have been largely eclipsed, until now.
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We're gathering all the source material for Red Barry with plans to present the hard-to-find Sundays and dailies in a complete two-volume set. As soon as we locate the final elusive dailies, we'll put it on the schedule.
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leveret1 wrote:Another new title announced by Mullaney, this time Percy Crosby's Skippy:Created in 1923 in Life magazine, Skippy moved to the comics pages in 1925 and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. In 1931 it became the first comic strip to see its film version win an Academy Award. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. The strip, sadly, is not well known today, but we see in Skippy the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips.
Created in 1923 in Life magazine, Skippy moved to the comics pages in 1925 and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. In 1931 it became the first comic strip to see its film version win an Academy Award. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. The strip, sadly, is not well known today, but we see in Skippy the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips.
The strip, sadly, is not well known today, but we see in Skippy the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips.
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The year 1964 was a momentous one in the history of Gasoline Alley - it's when Frank King officially handed the baton to Dick Moores. King continued to help plot the strip but it's Dick Moores who takes center stage. More so than any other newspaper strip, Gasoline Alley is renowned for its strict continuity and this is our chance to see Moores - who continued writing and drawing the strip until 1986 - make it his own. Forty-plus years earlier, Walt Wallet found baby Skeezix in a basket on his doorstep and in the 1964-1966 strips reproduced in this volume. Skeezix is now middle-aged and has a family of his own. For the first time since they appeared in newspapers fifty years ago, readers can enjoy these classic strips featuring Walt and his wife Phyllis, Skeezix and his wife Nina, Corky, Clovia, Slim, Avery, Mr. Pert, Joel, Rufus, and a whole cast of familiar characters.
Introducing a new series that will reprint early daily newspaper strips that are essential to the history of comics. Each volume will contain a full year of dailies. By reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the experience of reading the comics one day at a time. The inaugural volume of LOAC Essentials features Baron Bean by one of the greatest of all comic strip stars: George Herriman. The creator of Krazy Kat drew Baron Bean for three years beginning in 1916. Included in this volume is the first year. Two additional books will complete the series. Future LOAC Essentials titles include The Gumps and Polly and Her Pals. The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints... The research and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time." - Scoop
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darth genius wrote:Does anyone know the status of Family Circus vol 3?
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