The collected hardcover edition of Hybrid Bastards arrives in stores this week from Archaia. The company sent a sneak peek for you to check out so you know what to look for when you head to your local comic shop.
Category Archives: hardcover
L’il Abner collection coming from IDW Publishing
I am really excited about this announcement from IDW Publishing that the company is collecting the L’il Abner series into a hardbound volume. Growing up, I had small trades from the late 60s to read, and enjoyed the introduction of the Shmoo, Sadie Hawkins Day, and of course the gorgeous Daisy Mae (not to be confused with Daisy Marie). The first volume of the Al Capp series arrives in April.
Press release follows
Marvel shows off cover to Iron Man: Extremis HC
Marvel sent Major Spoilers an e-mail that contained the variant cover to the upcoming Iron Man: Extremis hard cover that arrives in March. The cover features the art of Adi Granov.
What is DC going to do for the collected Wednesday Comics series?
If this image is any indication, the collected hardcover of DC’s Wednesday Comics is going to take up some shelf space… or coffee table. Heck, it just might make a great coffee table. Regardless, the 200-page hardcover, with lots of bonus material, arrives in May.
Not only does the collection feature two previously unpublished pages — one starring The Creeper (written by Keith Giffen with art by Eric Canete) and one starring Plastic Man (written by Evan Dorkin with art by Stephen DeStefano) — it also sports a can’t-miss collection includes a 10-page sketchbook section with art from each illustrator, plus an intro by series editor Mark Chiarello.
Buck Rogers blasts to hardcover this April
With his trusty ray gun and jet pack, trailblazing hero and sci-fi icon Buck Rogers finds himself out of his time in into the future! The inspiration for countless sci-fi heroes finds new life in Dynamite Entertainment’s Buck Rogers, written by Scott Beatty and illustrated by artists Carlos Rafael and Carlos Lopez. Now, for the first time ever, Buck Rogers fans can own the first story arc “Future Shock” in one gorgeous hardcover collection now available for order through Diamond Previews!
Days Missing gets hardcover treatment in 2010
Archaia has announced its recently completed series Days Missing will be getting the hardcover treatment in February 2010.
Days Missing tells the stories of a mysterious being known as “The Steward.†His ability to literally “fold†days of time has allowed him to secretly remove critical days from our shared history that have forever changed the course of mankind…or so he thinks. In these missing days, The Steward battles Frankenstein, the Spanish conquistadors and artificial lifeforms, among other history-shaping forces.
There are a number of extras included in the hardcover, including:
- A foreword written by the legendary Warren Ellis, award-winning creator of graphic novels such as Fell, Ministry of Space, Planetary and Transmetropolitan.
- A gallery featuring all 16 covers of the five issues.
- A collectible poster on the reverse side of the dust jacket, joining together all of Frazer Irving’s complete chase covers to Days Missing.
- Interviews with all of the writers and Roddenberry Productions’ Trevor Roth , creator of Days Missing.
- Revelation of the secret code contained in the Days Missing logo.
- A stat sheet of The Steward, plus a tour of his library.
- The evolution of a comic page, from script to pencils, inks and colors.
Those interested in purchasing the hardcover can pre-order it now though Diamond and Amazon.com
IDW Announces New Polly and Her Pals Series arrives in August 2010
Coming this August, IDW Publishing and its imprint, the Library of American Comics, will launch a new oversized hardcover series with what historians and critics consider one of the essential masterpieces of comics strip art, Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals. Polly and Her Pals: Complete Sunday Comics, 1925-1927, a 176 page hard cover “Champagne edition” reproduces present every one of Sterrett’s dynamic full-color Sunday pages from 1925 to 1927, in an extra large 12″ x 16″ format so that each can be fully appreciated.
IDW Publishing presents Sherlock Holmes Volume 1
Press Release
Just in time for the new blockbuster movie, catch up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes with IDW Publishing’s new hardcover collection. The Sherlock Holmes collection will present every classic short story and novel in the order Holmes lived it, beautifully accented with all-new, full-color illustrations by celebrated artist Kelley Jones.
Oni Press gives Wasteland deluxe hardcover treatment
Press Release
One hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet–small, mostly illiterate, and struggling for survival. When the town welcomes a stranger named Michael into its midst, will the quiet man lead them to a brave new world or shatter what little order still exists?
Marvel sends Captain Trips premiere edition to book stores
When you run down your monthly Previews list and see a Marvel hardcover listed as Premiere Edition, those are the copies that are sent to comic book stores. With Stephen King’s The Stand: Captain Trips Premiere Hardcover, Marvel is making the edition available to anyplace books are sold.
The $24.99 premiere hardcover arrives in book stores nationwide beginning in January 2010. While you can still go down to your local comic book shop, I wonder how the local comic book shop feels about this offer?
In stores today: Ender’s Game: Battle School and Ender’s Shadow: Battle School
Just a reminder to all you Orson Scott Card fans – both hardcover collections of Ender’s Game: Battle School and Ender’s Shadow: Battle School are in stores today.
Follow the sci-fi saga of Ender Wiggin as he prepares for the most challenging game of his life in Ender’s Game: Battle School. Can Ender stop the oncoming war? More action awaits readers as the mysterious orphan Bean ventures through the Battle School in Ender’s Shadow: Battle School. Will Bean prove his worth and save mankind?
Booth of the Premiere Hardcover collections will set you back $24.99.
Archaia launches $9.95 hardcover program
Press Release
In a focused effort to give new readers an opportunity to discover Archaia’s unique library of titles, the publisher announced today a program to offer one new hardcover every quarter for the recession-friendly price of $9.95. Kicking off the venture will be the Vol. 1 hardcover collection of the acclaimed science-fiction thriller mini-series, The Engineer: Konstrukt, which will be available this August.