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CCL Podcast #297 – DC Comics for Summer 2011

December 9, 2010
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Sometimes when it rains it pours! Thhis week we’ve had a plethora of news come down from a number of companies. I covered a few items on my post this past Saturday, but since then and even through this morning more and more great collected editions have been announced:

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When Trades Collide: Fantagraphics and IDW

August 5, 2010
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It’s nothing big but it caught my eye nonetheless. Both Fantagraphics and IDW are publishing retrospectives on the work of Alex Toth.

November 2010 (moved from October 2010)
IDW Publishing - Genius, Isolated: The Life And Art Of Alex Toth by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell, $49.99

January 2011 (moved from October 2010)
Fantagraphics - Setting the Standard: Alex Toth at Standard Comics 1952-1954 by Greg Sadowski, $29.99

Reading the official solicitaions I gather the the IDW book will be more of an art book and the Alex Toth at Standard Comics book looks to be more like the Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics). I’m a big fan of the late, great Toth and any chance to see his work is OK in my book.

But here’s the intestesting part, this is the second time that IDW and Fantagraphics published a retospective on the same person. You may recall that Steve Ditko was chosen to be the subject not too long ago.

July 2008
Fantagraphics - Strange & Stranger World Of Steve Ditko HC by Blake Bell, $33.99

December 2009
IDW Publishing - The Art Of Steve Ditko HC by Craig Yoe, $29.99

Of course it’s not uncommon that companies publish similar books, but both Ditko and Toth are two of my favorites so I thought it’s worth mentioning.

I wonder who will be next? Larry Lieber?

CCL Podcast #253 – Kim Thompson, Vice President of Fantagraphics

January 13, 2010
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I’m excited to move out of 2009 and in to 2010 and what a better way to kick it off then an interview with a true journeyman, Kim Thompson the Vice President and Publisher of Fantagraphics Books. Kim has been in the industry for over 30 years specializing in alternative and independent comics. Kim has also championed the cause of European translations, which we discuss in-depth today. We also talk about Fantagraphics commitment to classic comic strip reprints like Peanuts, Price Valiant, Dennis The Menace and Pogo. For even more on Kim Thompson, be sure to visit his Blog page.

Also on the show I congratutalte Greg S. from Ogden, Utah on winning the 6th Annual NCAA Football Bowl Contest. Greg has chosen Showcase Presents: Warlord Volume 1 as his prize.

All this including thoughts on Human Taget comic books and trade paperbacks and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday morning

November 24, 2009
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Things are slowly getting back to normal around my house, which means that I’ll be able to spend more time on the blog and podcast. I’ll have some new and exciting things in the coming weeks including reviews for some critically acclaimed books, creator interviews, and new additions to the Library Section and loads of extras for the highly anticipated Collected Comics Library iPhone/iPod Touch App.

On a personal note I finally finished reading all 27 Volumes of Will Eisner’s Sprit Archives. This includes the Dark Horse volume that was recently released. I started it for my annual Adopt-A-Character podcast that I announce every January. I originally tried to get it all done in 6 months, but it was hard to find the time with family commitments this past summer. I’ll be writing review for the blog soon. It won’t be of every single volume, but will be broken up into segments: Pre-War, War, Post War, The 1950’s, The Dailies (Volume 25), Post-Sundays (Volume 26) and The Dark Horse series (Volume 27). I have not read any of the current DC run, except for the Batman/Spirit, so that won’t be covered, but I hope to start that run very soon. I can tell you that overall it was a great set of books and I’m proud to of achieved this feat. I received a lot of encouragement from all of you the past 12 months and for that I thank you. Come 2010, I’ll start a new series of hardcovers. I’m leaning toward the Iron Man Marvel Masterworks. I read Volume 1 when the first movie came out and now the series is up to 6 volumes. It shouldn’t take me too long to get caught up.

The CCL podcast for this week will be on Agents of Atlas: Dark Reign Premiere Hardcover (Marvel), look for it tomorrow. I also hope to have the latest podcast with John Mayo discussing the sales estimates for September 2009 this week, too. Now on to some links:

Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday afternoon

November 3, 2009
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It’s November and with a new months come a ton of cool news! Let’s get to it:

  • In other Books Of The Year news, Publishers Weekly has their Top 10 books for 2009
    • Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW)
    • Driven by Lemons, Josh Cotter (AdHouse)
    • Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury)
    • The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
    • Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
    • Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press)
    • Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)
    • A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q)
    • You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
    • Pluto, Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
  • and so does Amazon.com
    • Stitches: A Memoir, David Small (WW Norton)
    • George Sprott: 1894-1975, Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
    • Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
    • All-Star Superman, Vol. 2, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC Comics)
    • The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse)
    • Locas II: Maggie, Hope & Ray, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books)
    • The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
    • A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)
    • The Book of Genesis Illustrated, R. Crumb (WW Norton)
    • Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • My friends over at the Collected Editions Blog has some news and opinions on some upcoming DC books including: Wednesday Comics HC, Superboy: The Redemption, Gotham Central Book 3: On The Freak Beat, JSA vs. Kobra, The Shield Vol. 1: Kicking Down the Door, and The Atomic Knights
  • And this big news of the week is saved for last: Fantagraphics Announces Six New Golden Age Collections: Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics Of The 1950s (June 2010), Setting The Standard: Alex Toth at Standard Comics 1952-54 (Fall 2010), The Road To Plastic Man: The Golden Age Comics of Jack Cole 1937-41 (TBD), Away From Home: EC Artists at Other Companies (TBD), Creeping Death From Neptune: Basil Wolverton’s Sci-Fi and Horror Comics 1938-55 (TBD), and The Comic Book Frankenstein: The Monster According to Dick Briefer (TBD). This is very welcome material in the wake of Gemstone’s EC line falling behind. Fantagraphics is an excellent company to do a massive project like this and the entire line will be headed by comics historian and editor Greg Sadowski (Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941). These will be welcome additions to my bookshelf.