Collected Comics Library Podcast #279
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It’s all Comic Con all the time in on this week’s show. All the Collected Edition news from Marvel, DC, Top Cow, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, IDW, Titan, TwoMorrows and more. I also go over all the 2010 Eisner Award winners and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Here’s the complete list of what I was able to gather up that was either announced or seen at Comic Con this past weekend. I’m sure the list will expand as more news trickles out. Don’t forget this is a follow up to what we already know, Pre-Comic Con, that I blogged about last week. I’ll be talking about all of these books (including contents, price and dates) and the Eisner Winners on the next podcast due out Wednesday.

Vertigo/DC Comics
Absolute We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, coming 2011

Marvel
Atlantis Attacks Omnibus, $75.00 collects:
Part 1: Silver Surfer Annual #2
Part 2: Iron Man Annual #10
Part 3: X-Men Annual #13
Part 4: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23
Part 5: Punisher Annual #2
Part 6: The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9
Part 7: Daredevil Annual #5
Part 8: Avengers Annual #18 (and New Mutants #76)
Part 9: New Mutants Annual #5
Part 10: X-Factor Annual #4
Part 11: Web of Spider-Man Annual #5
Interlude: Avengers West Coast #56
Part 12: Avengers West Coast Annual #4
Part 13: Thor Annual #14
Part 14: Fantastic Four Annual #22
Captain America Lives Omnibus collects Captain America #43-50, #600-601, Captain America: Reborn #1-6, and Reborn Digital Prologue, $64.99
Thor Worldengine Premier Classic HC Volume 58 HC by Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato collects Thor #491-494 and Journey Into Mystery #103
X-Force Premier Classic HC Volume 59 collects New Mutants #98-100, X-Force (Volume 1) #1-4 and Spider-Man #16

IDW
Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection: The Definitive Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim (Library of American Comics) starting form January 7, 1934 through April 30, 1944, oversized, 12 x 16 champagne edition format.

Top Cow
Classic Pitt by Dale Keown
Rest TPB by Milo Ventimiglia & Russ Cundiff, an unfinished comic miniseries from Devil’s Due Publishing, will be out in the Fall.

Dark Horse
Savage Sword, Continuing in the tradition of bringing Robert E. Howard’s incomparable prose to comic book form, Dark Horse Comics is set to showcase even more of the writer’s legendary work with Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword. Beginning in December, this 80-page perfect bound series will feature the exploits of well-known heroes like Conan and Solomon Kane while also aiming a well-deserved and long-overdue spotlight on some of Howard’s more obscure but no less exciting characters, including Dark Agnes, El Borak, Bran Mak Morn and Sailor Steve Costigan. While Savage Sword will premiere all new comic tales featuring Howard’s creations, it will also feature recolored reprint material as well as plenty of bonus content. A can’t-miss item for fans of action and adventure!
Signor Manara Library (overseen by Kim Thompson) The celebrated Italian comic book writer and artist known for The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman, Butterscotch, Click, Indian Summer and more will be bringing a major catalogue of his work to the states
Bethesda’s Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition by Geof Darrow

Drawn & Quarterly
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths and NonNonBa (North American English versions) by Shigeru Mizuki

Fantagraphics
Complete Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse (starting with the 1930 comics) beginning in May 2011, and continuing at a rate of two volumes per year. The retail price of the volumes will be $29.99
Linda Medley’s Castle Waiting Volume 2 HC due out in December
Walt Kelly’s Pogo Volume 1 should see the light of day in this calender year

Titan
Tank Girl: Skidmarks TPB, four issue mini-series by Dayglo & Martin, published by Titan Comics from November 2009 – February 2010.
Beetle Bailey 1965: The Daily & Sunday Strips HC, I’m guessing that this is not in conjunction with the Checker BPG reprints of Beetle Bailey
Dr. Horrible’S Sing-Along Blog Book
Firefly: Still Flying: A Celebration of Joss Whedon’s Acclaimed TV Series
Icons: The DC Comics And Wildstorm Art Of Jim Lee
Sucker Punch: The Art Of The Film By Zack Snyder

WCG Comics
Randy Reynaldo’s Rob Hanes, Adventures TPB (b/w), $15.99 collects 0-5, from 1994-96 All the stories have been digitally re-lettered for the new collection, replacing the hand-lettering of the original series. I met Randy at Comic Con 2006 and still have the original issues. This is good stuff!

No CCL Podcast this week, but I do have the latest TwoMorrows Tune-In for you, enjoy!

TwoMorrows Tune-In #30: Danny Fingeroth, Stan Lee Universe and Comic Con 2010 (.mp3)

This month on the show, host Chris Marshall sits down with Danny Fingeroth to talk about the upcoming book The Stan Lee Universe. Danny and Roy Thomas (Alter Ego) have put together one of the most complete and personal looks at one of Comicdoms most famous figure. Here is the official solicit:

Face front, true believers! The Stan Lee Universe is the ultimate repository of interviews with and mementos about Marvel Comics’ fearless leader! From his Soapbox to the box office, the Smilin’ One literally changed the face of comic books and pop culture, and this tome presents in his own words – and those of the illustrious folks he’s worked with – the co-creation of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Silver Surfer, and so many other super-characters! Presented are numerous rare and unpublished interviews with Stan, discussing how he made Marvel Comics the household name it is today. Also featured are interviews with top luminaries of the comics industry, including John Romita Sr. & Jr., Tod McFarlane, Dennis O’Neil, Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Al Jaffee, Larry Lieber, Jerry Robinson, and Michael Uslan discussing his vital importance to the field he helped shape. Plus, this book contains the essential-to-every-writer Stan Lee’s Top Ten Tips for Writers! And as a bonus for this special edition, and direct from Stan’s personal archives (housed at the University of Wyoming), you’ll see rare photos, sample scripts and plots, personal correspondences, and other tidbits from the entire span of his career, some unseen for decades!

The Stan Lee Universe SC
Danny Fingeroth, Roy Thomas and Stan Lee
$26.95, 176 pages, TwoMorrows Publishing, November 2010

Chris also goes over all TwoMorrows Publishing happenings going on in San Diego at Comic Con International 2010, including New Releases, Specials and Panels.

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #278
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As most of you know, I’m a co-host on the Comic Book Page Podcast with John Mayo. Each month John and I discuss the Top 300 Graphic Novels and Collected Edition Sales Estimates as reported by Diamond Comics Distributors. One thing that has caught my attention over the years has bee the increasing number of comic book adaptations of original prose novels there have been – and how well they sell. This is really nothing new however, Tarzan and Conan novels have been adapted and there was even the great Classic Illustrated Series. More recently Roy Thomas and Marvel brought back that title and even expanded their line of comics with the Best Selling Author series which includes Stephen King’s The Stand. Boom Studios! is also in the mix with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? the basis for Blade Runner. But there is one contemporary title title that we have yet to see: Harry Potter. As I explain in today’s podcast, now that Marvel is owned by Disney and the final Potter movie is set to be released (Part One this Christmas and Part Two next summer) it would be the perfect time to announce this monumental project at this years Comic Con. Do it now while Potter fever is still hot. At the biggest stage in the world declare to the biggest fanboy audience in the world it and introduce committed team of artists and writers, have J.K. Rowling oversee the entire creative process, make it at least a 100 issues series covering all seven books. It would be one of, if not, the biggest projects to come out of San Diego this year.

What are some of the best comic book adaptations?

Also on the show I catch up with the week’s news including the passing of Harvey Pekar with a book recommendation of Underground Classics The Transformation of Comics into Comix by James Danky and Denis Kitchen ($29.95, Abrams ComicArts), The Harvey Awards, what’s going on with Marvelman and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Comic Con is only days aways and the programming schedule is coming out. One panel that is worth noting:

Thursday July 22, 5:00-6:00 The 5th Annual Comics Podcasting Panel!— Five years ago, the comics podcasting stars came together on one panel for the first time in San Diego, and now they’re back to discuss comics, podcasting, and how the comic book industry has changed since that first panel. Podcasters appearing on the panel include John Siuntres (Word Balloon), Josh Flanagan (iFanboy), Jimmy Aquino (Comic News Insider),Brian “Pants” Christman (Comic Geek Speak), Bob Bretall (The Comic Book Page), and Cameron Hatheway (Cammy’s Comic Corner). Don’t miss your chance to see all your favorite podcasters on one panel! Room 32AB

Like in past years it will probably be recorded (by iFanboy). I’ll post a link when is goes up. Congrats to all who is on this years panel. I was fortunate enough to be on the first one.

Another panel on Thursday worth going to is:

2:30-3:30 BrickJournal: Looking at the LEGO Community— In the past decade, a community of adult LEGO builders has sprung up and created models, websites, and even conventions. The staff of BrickJournal, the magazine for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages, invites you to take a look at the community (and what it builds) at this presentation, with Brandon Griffith (top LEGO builder), Jonathan Bender (author ofLEGO: A Love Story), Nathan Sawaya (LEGO certified professional builder), and Jim Foulds (community operations manager for the LEGO Group). The panel is moderated by BrickJournal editor Joe Meno. There will be a Q&A afterward, so if you have any questions about the community, events, builders, or even the LEGO company, this is the place to be! Room 7AB

BrickJournal is a publication of TwoMorrows, of which I host their Tune-In Podcast, so it’s a shameless plug. If you go say hello to Joe Meno and tell him what a great job he and his team are doing.

Saturday should be a blast with:

Saturday, July 24, 12:30-1:30 Spotlight on Brian Michael Bendis— The controversial Marvel writer and Comic-Con special guest Brian Michael Bendis turns his spotlight panel into a live taping of the popular Word Balloon Bendis tapes. Word Balloon podcast host John Suitress will moderate the panel and take questions from the audience, with nothing off limits. Bendis will also be giving away limited-edition variant covers of his new creator-owned series Scarlet. Room 6DE

Not to miss on Sunday:

Sunday, July 25, 10:00-11:00 Jack Kirby Tribute— It’s time once again to pay tribute to Jack “King” Kirby, the prolific writer/artist who co-created some of the world’s most famous superheroes, including the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America, the New Gods, and many more. Kirby biographer and friend Mark Evanier (Kirby: King of Comics) hosts this annual Comic-Con tradition and is joined this year by writers Marv Wolfman(Tomb of Dracula, New Teen Titans), and Kurt Busiek (Astro City, JLA/Avengers) and other Kirby fanatics to discuss the King. Room 4

One link to note at this time:

Heidi MacDonald has posted Diamond’s Top Ten and market share information for June. I’ll be taking a look at the list over the weekend and give my thoughts on Monday and you can look for a podcast of John Mayo and I either very soon (pre-Comic Con) or very late (post-Comic Con). At just a glance at the Graphic Novel and Trade Paperbacks you’ll notice that there are four books from the Vertigo (DC) imprint and no Marvel 616 book made the cut!

Collected Comics Library Podcast #267
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Every week here on the podcast I get to talk about and review all sorts of collected editions. Inevitably, some are better then others. But today, I get to rundown the best of the best. The Eisner Award nominees came out just a few weeks ago and there are three categories that pertain heavily on reprint material: Best Graphic Album-Reprint, Best Archival Collection/Project-Strips and Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books. I give a rundown of all the books and grant my thoughts and opinions on a few, including what I think will win. This will also become a new feature on the Podcast as I will eventually cover all the categories. Winners will be announced at Comic Con in July. I welcome your e-mails for your favorite categories so you can play along at home.

One book that I hope will be up for an Eisner next year in the Romita Legacy by Tom Spurgeon (comicsreporter.com) from Dynamic Forces and Dynamite Entertainment. Why is that? Because I conducted two interviews with John Romita Jr. for the book and it’s my very first professional writing assignment. I am so thankful to Joe Rybandt (Dynamite) for having faith and trusting me with the job. I’ll write up a more in depth blog post about the book itself and my experience at a later date. I don’t ask much from you, but please support Tom, Dynamite and all of us who were involved by purchasing a copy. And please send us you feedback. Thank you.

Also on the show I talk about the upcoming 4 Volume Softcover Library Editions of BPRD and a couple of errors in the Dick Tracy and King Aroo hardcovers.

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #230
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The title pretty much explains this episode, but I will tell you there’s a lot of DC Comics Absolute Edition news and IDW’s Parker by Darwyn Cooke turns out to be one of the big hits of the Con! Let’s get to it!

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

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Comic Con International 2009 has come to a close and with it some very exciting Collected Edition news. You can rest assured that not all the news has come out. Like in past years, over the course of this week, fresh info will be blogged about or new Media Releases will be provided by publishing houses throughout the internet. Come Wednesday on CCL Podcast #230, I’ll go over, pretty much what I blogged about this past weekend along with what I think were the highlights of the show. For now, let’s take a look at some last minute bits and pieces from Sunday and I few things that I didn’t come across until now:

• Andrew Wahl, CBR on TwoMorrows Publishing Panel including the plans for American Comic Book Chronicles. FYI, I’ll be having John Morrow on the next TwoMorrows Tune-In Podcast to discuss this series more in-depth.
• Wildstorm (DC Comics) will be reprinting Absolute Planetary.
• Dark Horse will release two omnibus editions of the manga Chobits.
• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, the fourth volume in the series will be published October 12.
• Kurt Busiek says that Astro City is going monthly…plus other cool stuff and some format surprises as well. Could format surprises mean Absolute Astro City? I think it might.
• Jeff Smith and all the news on the two new Bone projects; Bone: Tall Tales and Bone: Quest for the Spark.
• And found on Rich Johnston’s Bleeding Cool…
  • As well as Fighting American, Dynamite has the rights to other Jack Kirby characters, Silver Star, Captain Victory, the Topps titles and more, and are planning a Kirbyverse. These were just in the hands of Image Comics. I wonder what happended?
  • Literary scholar Leslie Klinger and Neil Gaiman are to create The Annotated Sandman, a thoroughly annotated version of the 75 issue comic book series, to be published by Vertigo in four volumes, but it may take some time. This will be a nice addition to the Absolute Volumes and Sandman: King of Dreams.
  • IDW will be publishing an art book/biography of Alex Toth by Dean Mullaney. Perfect guy for the job. I hope it’s a big, thick book.

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.

Day 2 is upon us and so far the big talk this year has been so many companies announcing Digital Comics and/or iTunes initiatives. I’ll cover that topic on next week’s podcast, as well.
One note regarding all the Archie reprint news, keep in mind that Dark Horse will be covering the Archie Comic Book line, while IDW will be reprinting the Archie Comic Newspaper Strip line. Both are going to very exciting to see when they come out and when it’s all said and done, you’ll have a very complete collection of Archie. I want to know if your in for the ride.
Now let’s get to some Collected edition news from the Con.

• And the BIG Marvel News is: Marvel has purchased the rights to Marvelman. No word on an sort of reprint or collected edition project (at this time), Quesada said he’s excited to see the “continuing adventures” of Marvelman -CBR.
  
• Drawn & Quarterly has acquired world rights to the original graphic novel, Wilson, by award-winning cartoonist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and New Yorker illustrator Daniel Clowes,  it will be published in 2010.
• Quirk Book’s bestselling transformation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice into, well, a zombie novel, Del Rey Books announced plans to turn Pride and Prejudice and Zombies into a graphic novel. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel will be published in 2010. OK, Whatever.
• More Digital Comics ahem… goodness: Universal Uclick and Stan Lee have partnered to debut his Stripperella in a direct-to-iPhone release. The mobile comic book is a four series comic written by Stan with art by Anthony Winn.
• Even Spider-Man is going Digital.
• Not from the Con, but cool news anyway: Altus Press has announced Ki-Gor: The Complete Series Volume 1. For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of Jungle Stories is collected, complete and in order! Volume 1 is introduced by Tom Johnson and includes the first six Ki-Gor stories.
• IDW has announced more Darwyn Cooke Parker GN’s. Said to be part of the The Man With The Getaway Face and huge chunks if not all of The Outfit and that will be out in 2010.
• Tom Spurgeon moderated the Comic Con panel: Comic Strip Reprints Revolution. Who knew? If you attended please let me know what went on. I’ll see if I can get Tom to throw us a few bones, too. And if you can, play along on Tom’s Blog, The Comics Reporter.
• Found on Twitter: @glspotlight via the DC Nation Panel Bob Wayne says that if Absolute Rebirth is successful, there may be an Absolute Sinestro Corps War. That’s how it should have been collected in the first place.
• Also from the DC Nation Panel: No plans for an Absolute Dark Victory. And the there is this (via CBR’s coverage) A fan wanted DC to stop leaving issues out of its trade paperbacks and hardcovers. Bob Wayne asked for applause to see who would prefer this and who would prefer issues left out “if it makes a stronger book with a beginning, middle, and end.” The former won out. “I will take that information and use it in whatever way I want,” Wayne said.
• Tyrese Gibson then unveiled a new piece of wraparound artwork for a Mayhem OGN (Image) book slated for later in the year.
• DC’s Wednesday Comics Panel: “What’s the strategy for reprinting?” Kurt Busiek: “It’s going to be collected as a series of billboards.” Mark Chiarello: “We’re going to be worried about finishing the last four issues before we think too much about that. But size matters. We’re looking at that now.” Hmmm…that’s exactly what I said.
• Comic-Con 2009 Podcast Panel .MP3 Audio Recorded by John Mayo. Bob Bretall was part of the Fourth Annual Podcasting Panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2009 along with representatives from a few other comic book podcasts.
• Vertigo Panel: Karen Berger: “There are no plans to collect the Vertigo V2K books, but there should”. When asked about Absolute Invisibles, Berger said, “they are sticking with current editions and that Vertigo tends more toward the Deluxe Editions like Y: The Last Man rather than Absolutes”. Really? Then why did you show a slide of the Absolute Death (due later this Fall), or for that matter, publish the Absolute Sandman Volume 1-4?
• Eisner Award Winners as they are related to Collected Editions:
  • Best Humor Publication – Herbie Archives, by Sean O’Shea aka Richard E. Hughes and Ogden Whitney (Dark Horse)
  • Best Anthology – Comic Book Tattoo: Narrative Art Inspired by the Lyrics and Music of Tori Amos, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Image)
  • Best Reality-Based Work – What It Is, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Best Graphic Album—New – Swallow Me Whole, by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
  • Best Graphic Album—Reprint – Hellboy Library Edition, vols. 1 and 2, by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
  • Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips – Little Nemo in Slumberland, Many More Splendid Sundays, by Winsor McCay (Sunday Press Books)
  • Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books – Creepy Archives, by various (Dark Horse)
  • Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism – Comic Book Resources, produced by Jonah Weiland (www.comicbookresources.com)
  • Best Comics-Related Book – Kirby: King of Comics, by Mark Evanier (Abrams)
  • Best Publication Design – Hellboy Library Editions, designed by Cary Grazzini and Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)

Day One at Comic Con International was a huge success and a huge pain in the ass given Johnny Depp and the Twilight crowd were present. Word has it that the Comic Book Podcasting  panel and the TwoMorrows Publishing Panel were well attended, my thanks to all who went to support these fine endeavors. Let’s get on with some Collected Edition news:

• Dark Horse is proud to collaborate with Warrior Poets and Morgan Spurlock on an original graphic novel companion to the Academy Award nominated film Super Size Me. Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast Food Culture expands on some of the bizarre stories not featured in the original film.
• Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced three new additions to the best-selling Warner Premiere Motion Comics slate.  Classic graphic novels Superman: Red Son and Batgirl: Year One, as well as graphic album Batman: Black and White Collection 2 entered the digital age as Warner Premiere Motion Comics on the iTunes Store.
• Speaking of Digital, Archie Digital Comics (www.archiedigital.com) offers you hundreds of  Archie titles both past and present; from the 70s to the 90s, including the landmark Archie 200th and Archie 500th issues!
• Courtesy of Top Cow, CBR brings you an exclusive preview of Top Cow Bible, featuring profiles, first appearances, key creators, and more about the Top Cow Universe.
• This seems to be all the rage at the Con: Scholastic Books has announced that writer/artist Jeff Smith with be teaming with co-writer Tom Sniegoski to return to he world of Bone in 2010 with the first of four new “Bone” graphic novels.
• Disney Book Group announced today the Prince of Persia graphic novel anthology and will be will published in April 2010 simultaneously in hardcover and paperback with a 125,000 first print run.
• DC Comics’ new Crime Line including Return to Perdition. I can’t wait for the Deluxe Absolute Trilogy.
  
• IDW Highlights:
  • Old issues of J. Scott Campbell’s Danger Girl are coming to IDW, both in print and for the iPhone. A deluxe hardcover (pictured) due out in Spring 2010 will collect the first mini-series from 1998 and never-before-published extras.
  • A deluxe edition of IDW’s Rocketeer hardcover would feature an extra 140 pages of preliminary pencil drawings and sketches from Stevens, most of which are unpublished and never-before-seen.
  • A republication of  Winter World, a miniseries created in the ’80s by Chuck Dixon and artist Jorge Zaffino.

• The Simon and Kirby Superheroes was announced earlier this year and the book finally has a release date of Summer 2010. The 480-page Omnibus will comprise of all of the costumed hero adventures produced – aside from their work for Marvel and DC – from 1940-1960, The stories will be fully restored by Kirby historian Harry Mendryk, presented on quality matte stock paper in vivid color, 11 x 7-1/2. The next The Official Simon and Kirby Library release will be Joe Simon’s definitive autobiography, followed by editions collecting the team’s extraordinary adventures of detective fiction, horror, and romance.

Comic Con 2009 is under way and as expected not a whole lot of collected edition news has been announced:

• Rich Johnston,  Bleeding Cool, has the scoop on Boom! Studios and their Comic Con limited Hardcovers of The Muppet Show,  Incredibles: Family Matters and Cars: The Rookie ( numbered 1 to 250). They were only available on Preview Night and I’m guessing that they are all gone.
• Rich Johnston,  Bleeding Cool, also got wind that Cinebook recently bought the English-speaking licence to the Spirou & Fantasio line of Franco-Belgian bound comics and will be republishing the books starting with Volume 34: Adventure Down Under. It will be published in October 2009 in the UK and January next year in the US.  More translations are expected.
• My good friend Ron Richards, iFanboy, has started a new podcast with Russ Cundiff (Divide Pictures), C.B. Cebulski (Marvel Comics), Filip Sablik (Top Cow) called A Taste of Comics. Please check it out.
• Lastly, posted is the cover art to the Absolute Green Lantern: Rebirth. It’s due out April 2010 and is expected to be $75 US with 224 pages. It’s projected to collect Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-6 (2004-05) and also includes Green Lantern Secret Files and Origins 2005 and perhaps Green Lantern (2005 series) #1-6; but that seems to be a ot given the 224 page count. More information can be found on the GL: Rebirth page.
• Follow all that action with me on on Twitter @ChrisCCL and #comiccontrades

It’s late Tuesday night and I just got done recording CCL Podcast 229 (Trading The GL Corp [Balckest Night]). But before I edit it and send it off to the world wide internets, I just want to remind any and all of you that there are a few ways that you can follow all the cool Collected Edition news at Comic Con 2009 on Twitter.

1) Follow me @ChrisCCL. I’ll be Twittering as much as I can with as much CE information as I can find; and when I do so I’ll be posting the news and a link (if one is available). Please DM me (or email) if you come across anything.

2) Or better yet, join in the conversation by using the #comiccontrades hash tag that I created. The Official Comic Con 2009 tag is #comiccon (fyi: there is also #sdcc, but I’m not using that one) and I simply extended it – so its very easy to remember. And with that in mind, it’s a great way to share with us what deals you got.

So I’ll see you on Twitter and don’t forget that on Wednesday July 29, CCL Podcast 230 will recap everything that went on in the world of Collected Editions at this year’s Comic Con!

There will be a Podcasting panel at SDCC again this year.
Thanks to Ron from iFanboy for pulling it together.

Thursday, JULY 23
5:30-6:30
ROOM 32AB

Panel will consist of (in alphabetic order by show name):
Comic Book Page: Bob Bretall
Comic Geek Speak: Brian “Pants” Christman
Comics News Insider: Jimmy Aquino
iFanboy: Ron Richards (maybe Josh also?)

Collected Comics Library Podcast #189

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Last minute change for me this week but you won’t even notice the difference. I was going to review Iron Man vs. Doctor Doom: Doomquest, in honor of the Iron Man DVD release this week (and the Premiere Hardcover of Part Three from last week), but instead I opted for the more important feature of The 2008 Harvey Awards (Collected Edition) Winners. Keep in mind, that I only go over a few select winners so as not to drag on too long nor do I want to come across as ignorant. Seriously, I don’t know that much about Lettering. I’ll cover all three parts of Shellhead and Doom in another podcast, perhaps even Show #200.

Some other things that I go over include the two upcoming Omnibuses from Marvel: Inferno and Captain Britain and what they may contain; Dark Tower Premiere Hardcover slip-ups from Marvel and the Shipping and Product Changes. Lastly I go over the New Releases of the Week.

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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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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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.