PEDANTIC STAN goes international!

Back in 2021, writer John Freeman and I had the honour of reviving our Pedantic Stan character for The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World! Don't worry, that's not hyperbole. It was the actual name of the book!

An anthology masterminded by Paul Goodenough of Rewriting Earth (formerly Rewriting Extinction) to help raise awareness of our environment, the 344 page book gathered together new contributions from comics creators, musicians, writers, celebrities, and of course envirinmentalists, all contributing for free, to get the message across in an accessable and engaging way. 

Well, now there's a German edition too, with all the stories translated maintaining the same high standard design of the English edition, plus this time it has a larger page size and is in hardback! It really is an impressive production.

 

Only problem was, I'd killed off Pedantic Stan in his previous story, so for this new one-off, John wrote a script where Stan returned as a zombie! His thirst for comics luring him from the grave.

Our story The Return of Pedantic Stan the Comics Fan has become Die Rückkeur von Stan, Dem Pedantischen Comic-Fan! The character will probably be brand new for most German readers as Stan had only previously appeared in the UK fanzine Speakasy in the 1990s and my self-published Pedantic Stan collection a few years ago but I hope they enjoy his page. 

 

The Most Important Comic Book on Earth contains a multitude of stories from a vast number of people and is still available, dead cheap at only £7.99, from Amazon. (But ask your local comic shop or bookshop if they have it in stock first. Support them before checking Amazon.)

The German edition, Der Wichtigste Comic Der Welt is avaialble at this link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/wichtigste-Comic-Geschichten-Rettung-Planeten/dp/3741638250 

More info at John Freeman's comic blog, Down The Tubes, which is always worth following for regularly updated comics news:

https://downthetubes.net/pedantic-stan-the-comics-fan-hops-over-the-english-channel-to-germany/

With thanks to Paul Goodenough for sending me a complimentary copy of the hefty German edition.

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PEDANTIC STAN returns in THE MOST IMPORTANT COMIC BOOK ON EARTH!

I feel very proud and privileged to be part of this book, The Most Important Comic Book on Earth. A mighty 350 page softback out now, to raise awareness of environmental issues. Over 300 contributors including Chris Packham, Dame Judi Dench, Lucy Lawless, Alan Moore, Ricky Gervais, Sir Lenny Henry, Doug Braithwaite, Robert Kirkman, Aneke, Dani, Davey Jones, and many many more contributing their time for free for this worthy cause, including The Return of Pedantic Stan the Comics Fan written by John Freeman and drawn by me. 

Pedantic Stan was a strip that John Freeman and I created for Speakeasy fanzine in the 1990s. I published a collection of his stories in 2018, but this is the first new Pedantic Stan strip in 30 years!

Rewriting Extinction is a global campaign to raise funds and awareness to support projects devoted to saving the one million species in danger of extinction.

Rewriting Extinction is founded by Paul Goodenough, who invited people from the arts and sciences to contribute, and it wouldn't have been easy keeping this on track with so many diverse contributors, so well done Paul! See the Rewriting Extinction Facebook page for more info...
https://www.facebook.com/RewritingExtinction

Published by DK/Penguin Random House, The Most Important Comic Book on Earth is available now at just £20. You can read more about it at John Freeman's Down the Tubes blog here... 

https://downthetubes.net/?p=131861