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Day 2 – Friday at SDCC 2008 – Collected Edition News

July 25, 2008
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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:

Day 1 – Thursday at SDCC 2008 – Collected Edition News

July 24, 2008
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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.

Day 0 – Wednesday at SDCC 2008 – Collected Edition News

July 23, 2008
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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.