Comic Book Blog browsing on a Friday morning
Have you had a good day, lately? I sure have. Yesterday afternoon I made some improvements to the way I conduct business here at the CCL Blog. On the surface you won’t notice a thing, and it’s meant to be that way. But overall, it will allow me to streamline more collected edition information so you, the reader, can truly make this your one stop shop for all your collected needs. So I ask again, have you had a good day lately? Well, from now on, by visiting the CCL, you can.
In major news Jeph Loeb tells John Siuntres, Wordballoon podcast, that DC will be publishing the Absolute Superman: For All Seasons. Loeb also expects Absolute versions of Dark Victory (which may get renamed to Long Halloween II: Dark Victory), and Catwoman: When in Rome. He also hopes to do Long Halloween III and Hush II sometime in the future.
On with today’s links:
- Checker Book Publishing Group has provided the CCL with a press release. Some of the news includes:
- Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland Volume 2 will include extremely rare images that have never been collected before. This 348-page volume finishes the 1911-1914 run of Little Nemo, originally published in the New York Herald until 1911 and then in the New York American. Additionally, Checker includes the entire never before collected 1924-1926 run of Little Nemo in full color which returned the strip to the New York Herald Tribune. $49.95
- All 10,000 copies of Growingold with BC - A 50 Year Celebration have been sold. Checker Book Publishing Group plans to reprint the book soon.
- Checker Book Publishing Group releases new Crossgen reprint books: Negation Hounded, Vol. 3, Sigil V. 6 Planetary Union, and Sojourn Volume 6 - The Berzerker’s Tale
- Alex Ramons’s Flash Gordon Volume 2 will be getting a new printing, it collects color strips that were originally published in 1935 and 1936.
- Also Checker has some teases as to some new books coming soon:
- A compilation of comic strips about America’s laziest Army private!
- An anthology of horror fiction short stories in graphic novel format including a story written by America’s most famous horror writer!
- More X-Files books soon!
- More Crossgen titles soon!
- More Star Trek adventures to come soon!
- ICv2.com has a list of the Free Comic Book Day Gold Sponsors
- Verizon Wireless teams up with Fox and Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. This has nothing to do with comics, but is very geek and techie, both of which we all love, right?
- The Around Comics Podcast on Nixon’s Pals and a new Anita Blake collected edition
- Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, blogs on YALSA, The Young Adult Librarian Society, has picked it top graphic novels of 2007. (This is a follow-up to my Blog posting on December 12, 2007)
- Fantagraphics will be having a Hotwire Comics Vol. 2 release party at Rocketship Brooklyn on Friday, February 22.
- Alex Dueben, Comic Book Resources, interviews Chris Ryall (IDW Editor-in-Chief). Chris is slated to come on the CCL in 2008 to talk reprint collections. Look for it in the upcoming weeks.
- Joe at the awesome FPI Blog reports on Amory Wars Volume 1 - the Second Stage Turbine Blade (Image), a 224-page trade paperback collection, will be published this April.
- Pre- Review: PJ Pankini, Blog@Newsarama on the many upcoming 2008 reprint collections including Willie and Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin (Fantagraphics). I, too, have a list in mind and I’ll try to get it up next week.
- Review: Collected Editions Blog on Outsiders: Pay As You Go TPB
- Review: Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading on Queen & Country: Operation Red Panda. Say it with me: “I promise to read Q&C in 2008″
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