Collected Edition Blog browsing at Comic Con 2009: Day 3

July 25, 2009
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It’s been just about 24 hours since the news of Marvel and Marvelman broke and I’m still not fully recovered. This is major news from many different angles and many, many, many questions are being raised in its wake. I’m sure the next few weeks everything will be answered and some new and exciting projects will be built upon this news. So for now, right now, we’ll all have to sit back and wait. But for me, it’s damn well worth it. Let’s see what Day 3 provided:

  • Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool, found out that Panini and Marvel UK will be reprinting The Knights of Pendragon: Once and Future Volume 1 (1990) by Dan Abnett, John Tomlinson, and Gary Erskine. If fact, it’s already listed on Amazon.com and Amazon.uk
  • Fantagraphics Books reannounced (from 2007) that they would finally begin publishing The Complete Pogo, a 12-volume series collecting the complete chronological run of daily and Sunday strips. Volume 1 was due in October 2007, but now has a release date of 2010. Here’s the original solicit via The Beat.
  • Fantagraphics Books also announced The Complete Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. This series will collect the newspaper comic strip starting from the mid-1920′s. You may remember that Drawn and Quarterly is reprinting Nancy by John Stanley which collects the comic books from the 1940′s.
  • Here’s the Newsarama lowdown on the Graphic Novels and Novelists panel that was moderated by Tom Spurgeon. Man, now I really wish I was in San Diego.
  • Allan Holtz, well-known in the comic strip fan community for his articles on comic strip history for magazines and books, and for his Stripper’s Guide website, announces that his Guide to U.S. Newspaper Comic Strips and Cartoon Panels is now under contract to be published by University of Michigan Press. The book is a compendium of the vital statistics about comic strip and panel series that have appeared in American newspapers. I’ve corresponded with Allan on a number of things and I’m very glad for him. It will be an excellent read.
  • From the many Vertigo (DC Comics) panels: Karen Berger, Executive Editor, unveiled slides of Josh Dysart’s upcoming 160 page hardcover graphic novel, Greendale, which centers on Neil Young’s Greendale album. There will also be a Fables prose novel centering on Peter & Max with illustrations by Steve Leialoha.
  • DC Comics announced a new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents series that has been talked about since 2004 and Dark Horse announced new ongoing titles of Gold Key characters including Turok, Magnus: Robot Fighter, and Doctor Solar. I say this because a DC and Dark Horse has done a wonderful job collecting the classic series in both of their Archive series.
  • BOOM! Studios announced The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck HC. Now that Boom has this license, perhaps we’ll finally see Complete Carl Barks Collection that was originally solicited by Gemstone.
  • Also, speaking of BOOM! did anyone go to their booth and pick up Farscape Vol. 1 HC Scorpius Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by Farscape  creator Rockne S. O’Bannon and series writer Keith R.A. DeCandido? If so, let me know.
  • Tim Burton announced The Art of Tim Burton Limited Hardcover, due out later this year, most likely in time for Halloween, it will have over 400 pages and contain over 1,000 illustrations.

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  3. Collected Edition Blog browsing – New York Comic Con 2009
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  5. Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday afternoon

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