I'm pleased to say that I'll be writing an article for an upcoming issue of the Comicscene History of Comics!
As you may recall, Comic Scene was a newsstand magazine of comics news and views that was published a few years ago and I wrote some articles for it then. In recent times it's been relaunched as a partwork, with each bookazine focusing on a particular year. The ambitious project plans to run for 100 issues, covering 100 years of comics from 1930 to 2030. The first four bookazines covered the years 1950, 1977, 1984 and 1986. The next four cover the years 1971, 1976, 1991, and 2020.
Four issues are already available, with the next four currently being funded on Kickstarter. I'll be writing a feature for the 1971 edition if the project reaches its Kickstarter target.
You can pledge to fund the next four issues at the following link that gives you all the details:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicscene/comicscene-history-of-comics-books-5-to-8
Ouch! Too expensive
ReplyDeleteAnd why start from 1930 instead of the 19thC when comics started up?
I enjoyed the first 4 volumes so I'll definitely support these,
ReplyDeleteThe 100 year range seems to be chosen to give a nice round number and a bit of wriggle room to cover any significant events between 2020 and the year the project is finally completed. Although it does seem much too early to have any real perspective on 2020.
As for the cost, coming in the week that sees DC moving the regular Batman and other titles up to $5.99 (if we believe Bleeding Cool), asking only £40 for a set of four of these seems pretty reasonable.
I have a feeling the $5.99 Batman price is a misprint in the catalogue. The actual covers shown have the $4.99 price on them (with $5.99 for variant card stock covers). Time will tell. At the moment it'll work out cheaper to buy Panini's new Batman comic at £2.99 for 48 pages, although they're a couple of years behind the U.S. editions.
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