Time to get caught up on several Collected Edition news items from around the web.
- ICv2 Announces Graphic Novel Industry Summit at New York Comic Con. Full schedule included.
- IDW changes size with Dick Tracy Volume 7. I blogged (or mentioned it in the podcast) about this some weeks back. Still no word on if IDW with go back and reprint the first six volumes in this oversized format.
- Archie will be publishing a new trade paperback of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume One: Heroes In A Half Shell a 3-issue mini-series that adapted the first 5 episodes of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. Due out May 6th, 2009, it will be a part of the 25th Anniversary of the Turtles. On Sale at Comic Specialty Shops: May 13th, 2009, $11.95 by Michael Dooney.
- Mike Baehr, Fantagraphics, asks the question: What never-reprinted Fantagraphics series would you most like to see collected? Respond back at their blog.
- Speaking of Fantagraphics (and TMNT), they are going to publish Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition as part of it’s 25th Anniversary. It will debut at Comic-Con this summer as a complete, definitive two-volume slipcased hardcover Special Edition. It will also have extra material, some from the long-out-of-print hardcover editions and some brand new: a complete full-color gallery of the more than 50 Usagi covers from that period (never-before-collected); many preparatory sketches; two “non-canon” Usagi stories by Stan Sakai co-starring the TMNT (with whom Usagi also shared screen time in the TMNTs’ TV series); and a long career-spanning interview with Sakai. Fantagraphics calling is their biggest Special Edition re-issue yet. $95.00, 1200 pages.
- A.C. Nielsen’s BookScan service has provided ICv2 with a ranking of the top 20 graphic novels of 2008. Guess what #1 was.
- John Seavey, Fraggmented, makes a list of what Showcase Presents he would like to see. I think Warlord and Firestorm are safe bets.
- Warner Home Video has announced that it will release the Watchmen Motion Comic on Blu-ray and DVD on March 3rd, three days before the premiere of the film. And for more on this check out Wordballoon Host John Siuntres talks with Watchman Animator Jake Hughes.
- Bob Greenberger talks about his next project The Batman Vault, which is similar to the Marvel Comics and DC Comics Vault books. It’s due out by Christmas 2009.
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