Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Freshly returned from Montreal Comiccon 2011 my head is still full of crowds, books and art. My focus here is the collected edition market at the show: hardcovers, trade paperbacks, graphic novels. First off this was a comic centric show…
During their retailer summits Dan DiDio made a statement that Modern Myths took note of and posted in their summary on Facebook. [quote]Another change DC is making is that they won’t be ‘writing for the trade’ anymore. Writers have…
Last year I took the plunge and decided to only read collected editions, cutting out monthly comic books. Overall it’s been a pleasant experience, enjoying entire story arcs and not experiencing hiatus periods of big name books; is All Star…
I just finished Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition and visited my local comic shop to see about volumes after that. The Fantagraphics hardcovers were oversized at 8×11″ and really brought out Stan Sakai’s art. The Dark Horse volumes are smaller…