Ben Rosen
07-27-2005, 04:41 PM
WARE books: A collector's guide
posted by Kim Thompson at 5:02 PM
This one is really simple.
ACME #5, 6, 8, 9, and 11-14 contain the entire JIMMY CORRIGAN saga, since collected into book form in the Pantheon JIMMY CORRIGAN book. There is not a significant amount of material in the comics that didn't get into the books, just the covers and a few ads. Which are very nice. #6 (barely), 11, 12, and 14 are still in print.
ACME #2 and #4 contain the QUIMBY material that was later reprinted in the Fantagraphics QUIMBY book. There's quite a bit of extra material in the collection; again, not a lot of material, except for the covers, failed to survive the journey from ACME to book. Both ACME issue are sold out.
ACME #7 and #15 form the basis of this Fall's upcoming ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY book from Pantheon. I'm not privvy to every detail, but based on the page count, I expect that most of the periodical material will be in the book, plus a lot of non-periodical material. Both ACME issue are sold out.
ACME #1 and #10, featuring Jimmy Corrigan material that was for the most part NOT collected in the Pantheon book (with much of #10 being recycled from BLAB! #8), have not been collected. They may be assembled into a smaller CORRIGAN book eventually. These comics have both been out of print for over four years, and therefore are the most difficult to find of the Ware publications.
ACME #3 is the collection of Ware's college-day "potato man" strips; it exists in its own little world, has never been collected anywhere else and there are no plans to do so. It is still available.
The 64-page full-color hardcover ACME #16, which will be released in October, launches the RUSTY BROWN graphic novel heretofore only published in the CHICAGO READER, as well as the "Building Stories" serial. ACME #17 will follow a year later, with the second chapters of each, and so on until it's finished, at which point Pantheon will likely release the collection.
From the Fantagraphics Blog.
posted by Kim Thompson at 5:02 PM
This one is really simple.
ACME #5, 6, 8, 9, and 11-14 contain the entire JIMMY CORRIGAN saga, since collected into book form in the Pantheon JIMMY CORRIGAN book. There is not a significant amount of material in the comics that didn't get into the books, just the covers and a few ads. Which are very nice. #6 (barely), 11, 12, and 14 are still in print.
ACME #2 and #4 contain the QUIMBY material that was later reprinted in the Fantagraphics QUIMBY book. There's quite a bit of extra material in the collection; again, not a lot of material, except for the covers, failed to survive the journey from ACME to book. Both ACME issue are sold out.
ACME #7 and #15 form the basis of this Fall's upcoming ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY book from Pantheon. I'm not privvy to every detail, but based on the page count, I expect that most of the periodical material will be in the book, plus a lot of non-periodical material. Both ACME issue are sold out.
ACME #1 and #10, featuring Jimmy Corrigan material that was for the most part NOT collected in the Pantheon book (with much of #10 being recycled from BLAB! #8), have not been collected. They may be assembled into a smaller CORRIGAN book eventually. These comics have both been out of print for over four years, and therefore are the most difficult to find of the Ware publications.
ACME #3 is the collection of Ware's college-day "potato man" strips; it exists in its own little world, has never been collected anywhere else and there are no plans to do so. It is still available.
The 64-page full-color hardcover ACME #16, which will be released in October, launches the RUSTY BROWN graphic novel heretofore only published in the CHICAGO READER, as well as the "Building Stories" serial. ACME #17 will follow a year later, with the second chapters of each, and so on until it's finished, at which point Pantheon will likely release the collection.
From the Fantagraphics Blog.