CCL Podcast #181 - SDCC 2008 Collected Edition News Wrap Up

Collected Comics Library Podcast #181
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Only one thing to talk about this week - San Diego! Today is the Con Collected Edition news wrap up.
I also go over a few books that have errors: Showcase Presents Haunted Tank Volume 2 (DC Comics) and Weird Science Archives Volume 3 (EC/Gemstone).
Finally, go pick up the hottest selling book, and one of the biggest surprises at the Con the Tori Amos inspired Comic Book Tattoo (Image)!
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Chris
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Day 4 - Sunday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
It’s Sunday and the final day of the Con. Lots of great news has come out this past weekend and I’ll be going over all of this and more in my next podcast which will be out Wednesday. More news as it happens. On with today’s news from The Con:
- Marvel is launching an new ongoing series of Cloak and Dagger. I smell a collected edition.
- DC Comics things we know: Bob Wayne said the The Archives collections are morphing into newly titled projects, including an original (Absolute) version of Captain Marvel and the Monster Society of Evil to go alongside the new version.
- Dan Didio hinted at a collection of the past stories Grant Morrison’s been referencing in his current Batman work. “We’re working on something along those lines,”.
- An oversized “Art of Wanted” book will be coming out, a new movie edition of the trade featuring interviews with the cast and filmmakers and a bunch of other movie-related extras.
Day 3 - Saturday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
It’s Midnight as I type these words. Patty and I just got home from The Police and Elvis Costello concert. What a great show. Could be my most favorite ever, which is saying a lot!!!
On with today’s news from The Con:
- DC Comics is adding the Milestone Universe (from the 1990’s) into the mainstream DCU. Static will be joining Teen Titans. Now that is cool. To commemorate the event, DC will be collecting the old Milestone material, and reissuing that in trade paperback form over the course of next year.
- The Star Wars Vector crossover storyline will be collected into it’s own Trade Paperback at the end of the year.
- Dark Horse news: The long awaited 20 Years of Dark Horse will be retitled to 25 Years of Dark Horse and be released in 2011. and Serenity: Better Days is being collected, and early next year.
Also, in manga news, Dark Horse announced that next summer the company will create a series of 80-page manga that will be simultaneously released in Japan and the United States by the group of creators called Clamp. Dark Horse will also be releasing an Omnibus collecting all the Clover stories next year. - DC has acquired the rights to many of the 1940’s Archie heroes including The Shield, The Web, The Comet, The Fly, The Jaguar, and The Black Hood. Let’s hope they got the reprint rights, too.
- IDW and Chris Ryall announced collections of Violent Messiahs, The Dreamer, and Thom Zahler’s Love and Capes. They are slated to be released from late 2008 to early 2009. Also, a collection of the ’80s strip Torpedo is slated for 2009. Originally written in Spanish and translated to English for American audiences, Jimmy Palmiotti will be “translating the translation.”
- In Top Cow news, William Harms’ Impaler, previously published via Image Central will be finished and collected by Top Cow, and a new series will start afterwards.
Also, Madame Mirage will come back next year in a new series, Paul Dini announced. The collection of the first storyline hits in September, though the publisher has copies available at the show. The was no date given for the debut of volume 2. - DC Comics is bringing back The Warlord. I smell a collected edition.
2008 Eisner Awards: What Did Win
A few weeks back, April 17 to be exact, I blogged about the Eisner Award Nominees. In it I picked What Should Win and What Will Win for the Categories related to Collected Editions, Reprints and a few others that I found most interesting. Today, I republish that posting with What DID Win.
You can see the full list of Winners at the Official Eisner Awards Website.
Best Anthology
- Best American Comics 2007, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Chris Ware (Houghton Mifflin)
- 5, by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon, Vasilis Lolos, and Rafael Grampa (self-published)
- Mome, edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
- Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened, edited by Jason Rodriguez (Villard)
- 24Seven, vol. 2, edited by Ivan Brandon (Image)
What should win: Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. A wonderful representation of what happens when creative minds peak.
What will win: Best American Comics 2007. Everyone loves Chris Ware.
What did win: 5. Sorry, I still have never heard of it. But I check it out now.
Best Graphic Album-New
- The Arrival, by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
- Bookhunter, by Jason Shiga (Sparkplug Books)
- Essex County, vols. 1-2: Tales from the Farm/Ghost Stories, by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
- Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Percy Gloom, by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)
What should win: The Arrival. Monsters in NYC with no words. How cool is that?
What will win: Exit Wounds. Going strictly by Dick Hyacinth’s Top 10 list of 2007
What did win: Exit Wounds. Nailed it! Thanks Dick Hyacinth!!!
Best Graphic Album-Reprint
- Agents of Atlas Hardcover, by Jeff Parker, Leonard Kirk, and Kris Justice (Marvel)
- Gødland Celestial Edition, by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli (Image)
- James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems, by James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, by David Petersen (Archaia)
- Super Spy, by Matt Kindt (Top Shelf)
What should win: Agents of Atlas. A great revival story is collected with all the online pieces. Also includes the original #1’s of each character - all for $25. this was the CCL’s Book of the Year.
What will win: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152. Peterson is Hot Hot Hot and this is a great story. The RPG rights just sold this week, the film rights can’t be far behind.
What did win: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152. Nailed it! Chalk one up for Michigan’s own Petersen!!!
Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Strips
- (The Complete) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, by Winsor McCay (Ulrich Merkl)
- Complete Terry and the Pirates, vol. 1, by Milton Caniff (IDW)
- Little Sammy Sneeze, by Winsor McCay (Sunday Press)
- Popeye, vol. 2: Well Blow Me Down, by E. C. Segar (Fantagraphics)
- Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, by Frank King (Sunday Press)
What should win: Complete Terry and the Pirates. Although this has been previouly released, we now have the HD version in 2008.
What will win: Sundays with Walt and Skeezix. Walt and his old pal got passed on last year by Peanuts. This is their year.
What did win: Complete Terry and the Pirates. Good for Terry.
Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books
- Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus, vol. 1, by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (Marvel)
- Apollo’s Song, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
- The Completely MAD Don Martin, by Don Martin (Running Press)
- Daredevil Omnibus, by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Marvel)
- I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks (Fantagraphics)
What should win: The Completely MAD Don Martin. But did anyone actually read it outside of the free “look at” copy at Borders?
What will win: I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! Classic Golden Age icon Fletcher Hanks will get recognized. Just what this category is.
What did win: I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!. Nailed it! Go out now and buy this book.
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
- Comic Art #9, edited by Todd Hignite (Buenaventura Press)
- Comic Foundry, edited by Tim Leong (Comic Foundry)
- The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, Michael Dean, and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)
- The Comics Reporter, produced by Tom Spurgeon and Jordan Raphael
- Newsarama, produced by Matt Brady and Michael Doran
What should win: The Comics Reporter. Everything, I mean everything, is done in digital these days, including making comics. Publishing comics on the other hand is done on paper and sadly this site (and others) will get passed over this year. It’s a real shame since everyone in the industry reads Tom’s blog on a daily basis.
What will win: The Comics Journal. It was passed up last year.
What did win: Newsarama. Shortly after the nomination, Newsarama revamped their site and they added RSS. It may of helped them get the Award.
Best Comics-Related Book
- The Art of P. Craig Russell, edited by Joe Pruett (Desperado)
- The Artist Within, by Greg Preston (Dark Horse)
- Manga: The Complete Guide, by Jason Thompson (Del Rey Manga)
- Meanwhile . . . A Biography of Milton Caniff, by R. C. Harvey (Fantagraphics)
- Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk (Da Capo Press)
- Understanding Manga and Anime, by Robin Brenner (Libraries Unlimited/Greenwood Publishing)
What should win: Meanwhile . . . A Biography of Milton Caniff. Since Terry and the Pirates won’t win, neither can this excellent book.
What will win: Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. A book that tells us how to read. I’ll never quite figure this one out.
What did win: Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Too bad for Terry.
Best Publication Design
- (The Complete) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, designed by Ulrich Merkl (Ulrich Merkl)
- Complete Terry and the Pirates, designed by Dean Mullaney (IDW)
- Heroes, vol. 1, designed by John Roshell/Comicraft (WildStorm/DC)
- Little Sammy Sneeze, designed by Philippe Ghielmetti (Sunday Press)
- Process Recess 2, designed by James Jean and Chris Pitzer (AdHouse)
- Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, designed by Chris Ware (Sunday Press)
What should win: (The Complete) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. Winsor McCay’s title made sence 100 years ago - and so did the strip itself.
What will win: Heroes, vol. 1. But not the Jim Lee cover, give me the Alex Ross one, please.
What did win: Process Recess 2. Another book I’ll have to pick up now.
Day 2 - Friday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
It’s good to see that so many people are having a good time at the Con. The crowds are large, but that is to be expected.
It’s also good to see so many cool announcements and news items. Let’s hope it continues all weekend long. Look for The Eisner Award Winners - Collected Editions - in a separate post Saturday.
On with today’s news from The Con:
- More news on Mister X with creator Dean Motter. Don’t forget Dark Horse is celebrating the character’s 25th anniversary with an Archive edition due out October 22. It will collect issues #1-14 (Series 1; June 1984-August 1988); 384 pages, $79.95. There is also an Official Press Release to this story.
- Here is the Official Press Release for The Life and Times of Martha Washington (Omnibus) as reported the other day.
- And…Here is the Official Press Release for Guy Davis’s, The Marquis also as reported the other day.
- Sublife published by Fantagraphics and making its world premiere at Comic-Con this weekend, Sublife is a one person anthology series by John Pham featuring one single, serialized story (221 Sycamore St.) backed up by smaller, hopefully more self-contained strips. It should hit bookstores some time in the Fall, and the first issue will be squarebound, 64 pages, two-color.
- Image Comics and Frank Frazetta on Complete Death Dealer, Death Dealer II and The Fantastic Worlds of Frazetta, Volume One. An oversize hardcover compiling Dark Kingdom, Swamp Demon, Creatures, and Dracula Meets the Wolfman. That book is due out at the end of 2008.
- From Cup ‘O Joe Panel: Any chance of a trade for Bob Gale’s “Daredevil” issues, given his current work on “Amazing Spider-Man”? No plans yet, but maybe.
- Boom! Studios announced the formation of Zoom, a new children’s comic book imprint for licensed Disney properties. The new line, which launches in spring 2009, will publish original comics based on Pixar films like the animated hit movie Wall-E, and also on The Muppet Show.
- Vertigo things we know: Fables collection of covers, a “coffee table art book collecting all of James Jean’s covers.” The book will come out in the fall and will include all the covers through Issue #75 and the covers for the trades. The Complete Death is coming out as a hardcover collection with all the death mini-series and a few short stories that were in various Vertigo mini-series over the years. Swamp Thing is going to be released as a series of hardcover books. And Preacher will be in hardcover starting next fall.
- Vertigo things we did not know: A new Vertigo Crime imprint, a line of graphic novels in black and white hardcover that will be “all crime thriller, smart, sexy, edgy books,” Karen Berger said. The imprint will feature writers known for work in crime fiction as well as Vertigo writers. “Interest in the genre is very big,” Berger said. “Our writers really want to tackle more crime thrillers and mysteries.”
- Dan Didio said at the Final Crisis Management Panel that they will collect the FC Tie-Ins, “…in the order that makes the most sense to everybody”.
Day 1 - Thursday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
So yesterday’s news wasn’t exactly from “Day 1″. Wednesday is more like Day 0 or you can even call it Preview Night, if you wish.
The news is starting to come in at this late hour in the East. I was worried earlier today that there would be no news at all. Silly me, eh? It’s San Diego for goodness sake!
On with today’s news from The Con:
- Agents of Atlas is getting an ongoing series! Jeff Parker hinted at this way back in April 2007 when he came on the podcast. Expect a relisting of the Hardcover - which I chose as the #1 Collected Edition of 2007! All comic books fans, young and old, should have it sitting on their shelf. Besides the great six issue series it’s loaded with extras and the characters original appearances from the 1950’s and it’s all for only $15.
- Following up on my Roy Thomas interview, Marvel has announced that Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson will be added to the Marvel Illustrated line of books.
- David Mack will be adapting the Philip K. Dick short story “The Electric Ant,” with Paul Pope covers.
- Marvel has also announced a follow-up to the classic X-Men crossover event Inferno titled Inferno II: X-Infernus. It will begin in December. I say this because this may give way to a new X-Men Inferno Collected Edition (Premiere?) Hardcover. To the best of my knowledge, Inferno has only been released in trade paperback and that was back in 1996. The entire storyline consists of Uncanny X-Men 239-243, New Mutants 71-73 and X-Factor 36-39. Well worth a read if you get the chance.
- Guy Davis and Dark Horse has plans to continue The Marquis, first published by Davis in 1997. A new upcoming collection, The Marquis: Inferno, a trade paperback collection of the first two “Marquis” stories, “Danse Macabre” and “Intermezzo, is due out summer/fall 2009. Alongside reprinting both original series it will have a new expanded sketchbook section, a color cover gallery including the guest covers on ‘Danse Macabre’ with really incredible artwork by Matt Wagner, Mike Mignola, Teddy Kristensen, Kelly Jones, Charles Vess and Michael Gaydos, along with the other covers done for the original stories and French editions. The stories are specifically drawn in black and white and grey with the scenes in Hell done in full color reds, and Dave Stewart who does his magic on ‘B.P.R.D.’ will be coming in to recolor the Hell scenes for the new collection too. The upcoming latest installment in the series, The Marquis and the Midwife. should follow in 2010.
- ICv2 has learned that, based on the overwhelming response to the Watchmen movie trailer accompanying The Dark Knight, DC Comics has ordered a huge new printing of 200,000 copies of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.
- Rumor: Steven Grant is doing a Vertigo GN. More news on this as I get it.
- Sneak Peak at Chip Kidd’s slideshow presentation Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
- Devil’s Due announced a publishing partnership with French comics house Les Humanoides Associes (commonly known stateside as Humanoids) and may even publish an Omnibus of Humanoids material.
Day 0 - Wednesday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
Every day I’ll be putting up all the Collected Edition news that I come across from Comic Con International 2008 from San Diego. I’ll be adding news as it happens, so be sure to check back often and add this feed into your favorite RSS Reader and also follow me on Twitter. If you come across any news that you don’t see here you can e-mail me or add it in the comments. You can also come by The CCL Forum and join in all the discussion.
The next Podcast, CCL #181, will focus on this topic and more including the The Third Annual Comics Podcasting Panel that is going on Thursday at 5:00-6:00 in Room Room 32AB. It will feature all of my friends including Bryan Deemer and Peter Rios (Comic Geek Speak), Charlito and Mr. Phil (Indie Spinner Rack), Joe Gonzalez and Jimmy Aquino (Comic News Insider), Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick (iFanboy), and John Mayo and Bob Bretall (Comic Book Page). Room 32AB.
On with today’s news from The Con:
- Dave Gibbons talks about a Martha Washington Omnibus (Dark Horse). It will include everything that has ever been published in chonological order, including Give Me Liberty, Martha Goes To War, Martha Saves Thw World and Martha Washington Dies and all the short stories in both their colored and black & white versions in an oversized slipcase format. Also, there are different covers for things and things done for t-shirts, some unpublished pages for Martha, try-out stuff, sketches, narrative and background material and even the Logistics story.
- IDW is planning to publish comic book biographies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Barack Obama: Presidential Material will be written by Jeff Mariotte and drawn by Tom Morgan, while John McCain: Presidential Material will be by writer Andy Helfer and artist Stephen Thompson. Both books will feature covers by J. Scott Campbell and will be available either separately for $3.99 or together as a flipbook trade paperback edition for $7.99. Both are due in stores Oct. 8 and can be pre-ordered at www.presidentialcomics.com.
- Scott Pilgrim Colour Special! (Oni Press) Only available at SDCC 2008 and other conventions this year. Bryn Lee O’Malley has collected odds and ends from 2008 and Oni Press has compiled them into this SDCC exclusive! It’s Scott Pilgrim in full colour, it’s a limited run, and it’s only available at the Oni Press Booth during San Diego Comic-Con 2008
- Darwyn Cooke will be adapting the “Parker” series crime novels by Donald Westlake (under the pen name Richard Stark) as a series of four full-length graphic novels for IDW Publishing which will begin appearing in summer 2009.
- Review: Kiel Phegley, CBR, on Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! (Image and Dynamite). This book just came out today just in time for the convention.
Collected Edition news from NYCC
Here is all the collected edition news that I could dig up from the New York Comic Con (courtesy of Newsarama and Comic Book Resources). If you know of any more, please send me the story with a source. And you can discuss all this on the Forum.
- DC Comics
- Absolute Sandman Vol. 4 in November
- James Jean’s covers for Fables will be collected in a coffee table book titled The Fables Cover Book.
- Hardcover editions of Paul Pope’s Heavy Liquid and Y: the Last Man. The Y editions will collect two softcover books into a single, oversize volume
- Possible Absolute Preacher
- Marvel Comics
- Brian Hitch explained that 1987 at 16 years old, the first job he got was on a GI Joe title–”Why I got hired I have no idea. I assume they were drunk. That went into some Transformers stuff and then Death’s Head. Then I took over She-Hulk after John Byrne quit.” “That was the highlight, right?” Barber joked. “I think it’s available in trade paperback.” Hitch joked, “I encourage everyone to buy one and burn it.” - I found that funny (Chris)
- Dark Horse Comics
- In second volume of the Hellboy Library edition, Mignola said that he wrote a text piece about not setting out to be a writer. In high school, he wrote a piece that was read aloud, which embarrassed him into not writing for a long time, “until John Byrne told me I was ready write Hellboy myself.”
- Completing 2008’s round of major Hellboy releases is May’s Hellboy: The Companion, an exhaustively researched timeline and encyclopedic handbook to the characters and world of Hellboy, featuring new material by Mignola.
- First project announced was “The Great Outdoor Fight,” by Chris Onstad, which, similar to “Perry Bible Fellowship,” is a collection of an online comic. Also Wondermark by David Malkie, Nothing Nice to Say, and the first six months of Dark Horse MySpace Presents.
- Allie said the “Umbrella Academy” collection, including the FCBD comic and DHP strip, will ship in July. There will be extensive behind-the-scenes extras with the artists. An oversized hardcover will follow this fall, “similar to the ‘Hellboy Library Editions.’”
- Image Comics
- Brandon Graham is writing the intro to the ‘Loaded Bible’ [Tim Seeley’s series for Image comics] trade.
- Top Cow
- A hardcover edition of Freshman (first series) is coming, Philip Sablik announced, which launched Seth Green into a litany of reasons why people needed to buy it and get it on their bookshelves next to their other hardcovers.
- Matt Hawkins said that Top Cow will be collecting “nearly all” of his original Lady Pendragon series, except for the final six issues, which he was unhappy with, and has essentially removed them from the larger story.
- BOOM! Studios
- The biggest news for comic fans attending the panel was that BOOM! just landed a licensing deal that will allow them to publish a new Farscape comic book series based on the television show. The comic will be released as a series of four-issue mini-series, with each four issues collected into trade upon completion. No creators have been announced yet, but BOOM! is hoping to have a series started by the end of this year.
- When asked about more Hero Squared, Waid said: “I have three plots in from J. Marc DeMatteis.” He said the series will be called Hero Squared: Love and Death. “Joe Abraham is going to start drawing it Monday,” he said. Mosher said the series will be six issues and will be collected in a trade paperback. Volume 2 of Hero Squared is in solicitations this month. “After we finish wrapping it up, there will be three trades plus Planetary Brigade,” he said.
- Devil’s Due Publishing
- The Drafted Vol. 1 is a trade paperback that collects the series’ first story arc, where aliens arrive on Earth, Jerusalem is destroyed and the human race is urged to initiate a draft to have enough troops to fight an intergalactic war.
- “We’re doing a 99 cent special [for the new series “RESTED”] so it’s cheap. I want you to order ten copies each. Then we’re doing a four issue miniseries that we’re collecting into a trade paperback.”
- Valiant
- A whole lot on Harbringer and X-O Manowar: Birth
- Both The Grackle and Armed & Dangerous are getting recolored for a possible collected edition
CCL Podcast #132 - San Diego Collected Edition News Wrap Up

Collected Comics Library Podcast #132
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Today’s show is all news all the time. San Diego news, of course, because this past week, that’s all there is. And lots of good news, too. Sure there is the usual “huh”? like the Complete Youngblood, but some cool tidbits like the old Marvel run of Indiana Jones. All the links can be found in the (July 26th) post below.
This past Monday was also the Detroit Podcasts Monthly Meet-Up. We had it in Ferndale and while there, I strolled down to a new comic store - Detroit Comics. I think it’ll be my LCS. I also go over the Podcast Awards and I have a new Question of the Month. Lastly I go over a very light Release Schedule.
Chris
Music by Hot Club of Detroit
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Detroit Comics
Echobase Podcast
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CCL Podcast #130 - 4th World Companion

Collected Comics Library Podcast #130
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First up I want to thank everyone who nominated me for a Podcast Award. I’ll have more news on that on this Blog later in the week. I also hoped all of you had a chance to download and listen to the latest CCL Comic Book Page May 2007 Stats Podcast. Comments are always welcome!
On today’s show I go over a small bit of news from Image, Dynamic Forces and the CrossGen/Checker Book Collected Edition Reprint Team-Up. It’s nice to see those finally getting published.
The CCL interior website has two new Checklists for you to download: The EC Archives and The Dark Horse Archives. I also hope to have all the individual pages for the DC Archives, Marvel Masterworks, Showcases, Essentials and everything else all updated by the end of the week And don’t forget to check out the Release Schedule; it’s all updated with the latest solicitations from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and others.
For the feature today, I cover Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Epic, but not in the usual way. I do go over the Omnibus editions a bit, but really it’s a rundown of the monthly and collected edition publication history for all the Fourth World related titles from 1971-2005!
Time to enter the Boom Tube! Hop on in!
Chris
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