I hope all of you had a great Memorial Day Weekend. As you can see from my pervious post I was rather busy. But it’s a wonderful sense of accomplishment when you get everything done that needs to get done. Sure, the work never stops when it comes to yard work, but I can look out my window and see the flowers bloom and that makes it all worthwhile.
As for comics, this weekend, things are pretty slow, but I did manage to read the Complete Shmoo (Dark Horse); a fantastic book that I will be reviewing for an upcoming podcast in the next few weeks. I’ll even let you in on a little secret – it’s a front runner for The CCL Collected Edition of the Year!!!
Same old stuff in the Collected Edition Blogosphere. So let’s get to it now:
- Fantagraphics has posted images of the newly released Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952 Softcover
- My pal Joe, FPI Blog, talks with Blank Slate Books
- BOOM! Studios‘ hardcover collections of their critically acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Damnation Crusade and Warhammer 40,000: Forge Of War can now be purchased exclusively through the BOOM! Studios web store as both signed-and-numbered and signed-and-lettered editions.
- Marc-Oliver Frisch gets right to the point on Brian Wood
- Graeme McMillan tries uncover what is up with the Millar/Hitch Fantastic Four Hardcover
- Red Rocket 7 10th anniversary collection on the way
- Top Shelf will release a collection of Corey Barba’s YAM comics, both new and previously published in Nickelodeon Magazine
- About Comics Collects Gail Simone’s You’ll All Be Sorry. A collection of her hilarious prose pieces. Featuring a mixture of classic entries culled from her popular online column and brand new pieces, this About Comics paperback will delight Simone’s growing legion of fans.
- Marvel Collects Ultimates 3 #1-#3. I really don’t like these “mini-trades” I think it’s just a money grabber. Keep in mind that Ultimates 3 #1 has already received an 2nd Printing and we can expect a trade and/or hardcover by Christmas. Too much of a good thing…
- Not really comics related, but I found this list very interesting: 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library. I’ve read only 10. Which I think is pretty good.
- Eagle Awards 2008 Results. Among the many categories are Favourite Original Graphic Novel The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman: Black Dossier and Favourite Reprint Compilation Absolute Sandman Volume 2
- Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on the Secret Six: Six Degrees of Devastation TPB (DC Comics) and Birds of Prey: Dead of Winter TPB (DC Comics), which also feature the Secret Six
- Getting ready for the Trade: Christopher Butcher reviews Project Superpowers #0-#3 and the 2008 FCBD Special (Dynamite)
- Preview, Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter, on Jules Feiffer’s The Explainers (Fantagraphics) Books. Note: this book is in stores now.
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Ah, but which 10 books did you read? And does that make you only 10% manly?
You might enjoy this Mr. Media podcast interview with cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who talks about the new collection of his comic strips from the Village Voice, Explainers, getting his start with Will Eisner on The Spirit, his plays (Little Murders), his movies (Carnal Knowledge, Popeye), the Disney musical adaptation of The Man in the Ceiling, and his forthcoming memoirs.