Monthly Archives: June 2009

Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday morning

June 9, 2009
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Not only am I a Podcaster/Blogger, but I’m also an avid listener of other podcasts and a reader of other blogs. I subscribe to over 160 different RSS feed with Google Reader. This also includes a few tech and sports feeds, but at last count, 91% are Comic Book related. I say this because more and more people that are blogging, are at the very least, are chatting about Collected Editions, but when it comes to the comic book news, more people are apt to talk about weekly comics, movies and TV. Only a handful in the blogosphere actually are committed to Collected Editions full time. This includes hardcore news and reviews (some are done in an audio format, like my CCL podcast). Some of these great site can be found on the Links to the right. My thanks to all of you who support us! Now on to some news:

  • Ed Brubaker has announced a Criminal Omnibus. Looks like it will retail for $50. At such a price it will probably only collect Volume 1 which are issues #1-10. (Thanks to Rich Johnson’s new Bleeding Cool for the gossip!)
  • It’s come across the wire as to just what the hold up is with the first Nexus Trade Paperback from Steve Rude and Rude Dude Productions. (My thanks to Sporadic Sequential and Augie De Blieck Jr. for the tip.)
    • We just received word from TransContinental (our printer in Canada) that Nexus: As it Happened V1 is printed, boxed, and ready to ship, but they want payment in full before they’ll ship. We’re $2,200 short so Steve dug up some more pages. We’re also $4,000 behind on mortgage, so we’re making an open offer to anyone interested in making a reasonable offer on any of the paintings that we currently have for sale.
  • Video: Stephan Pastis, Peral Before Swine, really want to promote his latest collection Pearls Sells Out (Thanks to Alan Gardner, Daily Cartoonist.)
  • The Graphic Novel Reporter lists the The Hottest Fiction GN’s, Tween GN’s, and Kids GN’s for Summer 2009.
  • John Mayo, CBR, has his Mayo Report: April 2009 Sales Analysis. You can catch the audio editions on his Comic Book Page podcast.

Collecting the Publishers: Archie Comics

June 5, 2009
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Archie Comics is as American as it gets. The company has been around as long as Superman (1939) and has a group of characters just as famous as the Justice League or The Avengers. Everyone knows who Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie are, everyone.
There have been so many Archie Comics and products over the years, but lets look at a select few collected editions:

  • Archie Americana Series (Best Of) Forties Vols. 1-2, Fifties Vols. 1-2, Sixties Vols. 1-2, Seventies Vol. 1, Eighties Vol. 1, and Nineties Vol. 1
  • Archie Day by Day Selections from Archie’s worldwide syndicated newspaper strip are collected in the special volume.
  • Archie New Look Series Vol. 1 Bad Boy Trouble and Vol. 2 The Matchmaker.
  • The High School Chronicles Volume 1: Freshman Year collects the Freshman Year saga, originally presented in the pages of Archie #587-591.
  • Sonic The Hedgehog Archives Vols. 1-10 collecting up to #37.
  • Katy Keene Model Behavior Every Katy Keene story from Archie & Friends #101-110, it also includes an all new story from Andrew Pepoy that charts Katy’s whirlwind career.
  • Best of Josie & the Pussycats Josie’s rock band in a tune-filled trade paperback volume that gets to the heart of the band’s comic book roots!
  • The Shield – America’s 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero The Golden Age of comics first super patriot.

CCL Podcast #222 – Pricing of Collected Editions (Part 1)

June 3, 2009
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #222
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As a comic book reader, when we are knee deep into the latest Crisis getting caught up with our favorite writer or artists, it’s easy to forget the business side of publishing. Company’s like DC, Marvel and the rest are trying 24 hours a day to turn a profit, stay viable and in some cases just trying to make it to tomorrow. Everyone knows about the 4-Ps of Marketing: Product, Place, Promotion and Price. Today we will focus on the last one.

And as a reader of this blog and listener of the podcast, you know just how important Collected Editions are in today’s comic book climate. Over 300 CE’s come out every month ranging in price from $9.99 to $150.00 and more (there’s even a book coming out today that has a $499.99 tag!). In the first part we look at the factors that go into the cost of a book and just what is passed on to you the consumer.

Although I don’t mention it on the recording, there is so much to go over that I am going to continue this discussion on next week’s podcast (show #223). I welcome all of your comments and insights on this very important topic.

Also on the show this week, I go over the upcoming Strangers In Paradise Omnibus, a softcover Marvel Masterworks of Iron Man and The League of Nobodies Podcast.

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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TwoMorrows Tune-In #21: Jason Hofius and George Khoury

June 2, 2009
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This month on the show, host Chris Marshall sits down with Jason Hofius and George Khoury to talk about their upcoming book Age of TV Heroes which examines the history of the live-action television adventures of everyone’s favorite comic book heroes!
Chris also goes over all of the June 2009 releases.

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e-mail Chris with questions and/or comments. He may even read it on the next Tune-In!

Collected Edition Blog browsing on Monday afternoon

June 1, 2009
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Every so often you come across the lists of Best Comic Books Ever or Must Read Before You Die. There’s a lot of debate when it comes to these lists that are drawn up by “experts”, but there’s usually a few books that they all can agree on. One of the books is Maus by Art Spiegelman. If you are a comic book fan and never read Maus, then you’ve probably a least heard about it. It tells the tale of the Holocaust and Jewish concentration camps during World War II where the Nazis are cats and the Jews are mice. It’s a sober reminder of what went on and should never be forgotten. I’m telling you this because here in Detroit, there’s a new exhibit of Spiegelman’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It showcases his Breakdowns years as a yet undiscovered and underground comic artist with over 50 drawings, lithographs and finished strips. It runs through July 26 and if you get a chance you should go and see it.