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 Also, there are different covers for things and things done for t-shirts, some unpublished pages for Martha, try-out stuff, sketches, narrative and background material and even the Logistics story.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.
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I am so excited for the Martha Washington Omnibus and the American Flagg! collection. I am glad publishers are starting to treat these complete runs so well. I might be incorrectly crediting the Marvel Essentials series for paving the way, but the Dark Horses and Images are really upping the ante!
I really want one of the Scott Pilgrim color things, if anyone going to SDCC would pick one up for me I’d paypal you the moola.
I’ve had the American Flagg collection on order for what seems like an eternity. It was supposed to come out this week but got delayed again.
I know of a few people who have Flagg in their hands. Be sure to double check with your retailer.
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