Bullets: UNDERTOW PODCAST #4, Brubaker Essay, Solicts, and More!
It's September already! Let's kick things off with a few brief items.
• UNDERTOW PODCAST, New Episode Now Online. Our latest episode of The Undertow Podcast is now available on iTunes and Podbean. Robert and I have a very interesting discussion following the debut of Kill Or Be Killed, talking about its unexpected premise and where the new series may be going next.
We hope our readers here enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording it.
• Ed Brubaker in This Week's Image+. We've been digging the inexpensive magazine Image+ since its May debut. The second issue featured a cover story on Kill or Be Killed, and there was a pleasant surprise in the latest issue. Out yesterday with a November cover date, issue #5 features a two-page "Industry Perspectives" essay by Ed Brubaker. On Matt Fraction's suggestion, Brubaker penned an open letter to a younger version of himself, at the beginning of his career.
The entire thing is worth reading for its perspective on the last couple decades on comics, and it touches on creator-rights issues that Brubaker has been covering in his email newsletter, but there's also the more general word of wisdom that became the article's pull quote: "Sorry, but your career doesn't go the way you thought it would (turns out almost no one's does)."
Ed adds, "you're happier, if it's any consolation."
• Kill Or Be Killed Keeps Rolling in November. Image Comics' November solicitations came out early last week, Newsarama has the complete listing online, and Sean Phillips reposted the details for KOBK #4 -- "The shocking end to the first arc, as Dylan's secret collides with his home life."
The 40-page issue is scheduled for a November 16th release.
• More Details on Upcoming books. We're eagerly anticipating October's deluxe edition of The Fade Out, and Ed Brubaker has shared some details on Twitter as the book went to print last week.
Brubaker describes the book as "the nicest hardback we've ever done." We had guessed at least 30 pages of extra content, but the 400-page book contains more than 50 pages of bonus content, including research, production essays by Phillips and Breitweiser, and two of the bonus articles from the monthly issues. Readers "keep asking" about these articles, but it's long been the creators' practice to reward those who support their projects by specifically buying the monthly issues.
Also on Twitter, Brubaker does mention that "you never know" about an eventual return of Incognito: the film rights were sold to Fox in 2010, and a film adaptation is apparently still in development.
And on the subject of films, Sean Phillips recently highlighted a high-resolution version of the cover artwork for The Hired Hand, a 1971 western directed by Peter Fonda, out on Blu-ray and DVD this November from Arrow Films. The dual-format release includes a "Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips."
A little closer on the horizon, Phillips' Twitter feed confirms a few arrivals for next week:
We haven't seen any extended previews of KOBK #2 online yet, but this week, on his blog, Sean Phillips posted a single panel in-progress, evidently from page 8.
He writes, "This is probably my favourite panel from this issue, Bettie did such a beautiful colour job here..."
We can't wait to see more!
• UNDERTOW PODCAST, New Episode Now Online. Our latest episode of The Undertow Podcast is now available on iTunes and Podbean. Robert and I have a very interesting discussion following the debut of Kill Or Be Killed, talking about its unexpected premise and where the new series may be going next.
We hope our readers here enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording it.
• Ed Brubaker in This Week's Image+. We've been digging the inexpensive magazine Image+ since its May debut. The second issue featured a cover story on Kill or Be Killed, and there was a pleasant surprise in the latest issue. Out yesterday with a November cover date, issue #5 features a two-page "Industry Perspectives" essay by Ed Brubaker. On Matt Fraction's suggestion, Brubaker penned an open letter to a younger version of himself, at the beginning of his career.
The entire thing is worth reading for its perspective on the last couple decades on comics, and it touches on creator-rights issues that Brubaker has been covering in his email newsletter, but there's also the more general word of wisdom that became the article's pull quote: "Sorry, but your career doesn't go the way you thought it would (turns out almost no one's does)."
Ed adds, "you're happier, if it's any consolation."
• Kill Or Be Killed Keeps Rolling in November. Image Comics' November solicitations came out early last week, Newsarama has the complete listing online, and Sean Phillips reposted the details for KOBK #4 -- "The shocking end to the first arc, as Dylan's secret collides with his home life."
The 40-page issue is scheduled for a November 16th release.
• More Details on Upcoming books. We're eagerly anticipating October's deluxe edition of The Fade Out, and Ed Brubaker has shared some details on Twitter as the book went to print last week.
Brubaker describes the book as "the nicest hardback we've ever done." We had guessed at least 30 pages of extra content, but the 400-page book contains more than 50 pages of bonus content, including research, production essays by Phillips and Breitweiser, and two of the bonus articles from the monthly issues. Readers "keep asking" about these articles, but it's long been the creators' practice to reward those who support their projects by specifically buying the monthly issues.
Also on Twitter, Brubaker does mention that "you never know" about an eventual return of Incognito: the film rights were sold to Fox in 2010, and a film adaptation is apparently still in development.
And on the subject of films, Sean Phillips recently highlighted a high-resolution version of the cover artwork for The Hired Hand, a 1971 western directed by Peter Fonda, out on Blu-ray and DVD this November from Arrow Films. The dual-format release includes a "Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips."
A little closer on the horizon, Phillips' Twitter feed confirms a few arrivals for next week:
- Kill Or Be Killed #1, 2nd printing
- Kill Or Be Killed #2
- Criminal Volume 7 TPB: "Wrong Time, Wrong Place"
We haven't seen any extended previews of KOBK #2 online yet, but this week, on his blog, Sean Phillips posted a single panel in-progress, evidently from page 8.
He writes, "This is probably my favourite panel from this issue, Bettie did such a beautiful colour job here..."
We can't wait to see more!
Labels: Arrow Films, bullets, Criminal, Incognito, Kill Or Be Killed, previews, solicitations, The Fade Out, Undertow Podcast
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