In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing the books and stories and moments that people really champion -- including plenty of stuff that I've forgotten about come Christmastime.
So have at it, Legionnaires! It's a bold new year! What in 2017 has knocked you out?
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SHIPPED TODAY: Jon Sable Freelance Masterstroke Omnibus Edition v2
Mike Grell's legendary Jon Sable Freelance set new standards for storytelling in comics, ushering in an era of excellence that changed comics forever. From the African plains to the concrete jungle of New York, now you can experience all the pulse-pounding action and excitement in a larger format than ever before as one of the best-reviewed comics of all time gets the treatment it deserves in this Absolute-sized deluxe Masterstroke Edition, remastered and recolored for the 21st century! Reprints Jon Sable Freelance #14-27.
To be perfectly honest, I never really epected to see a second volume... not that v1 wasn't great (it was)! It's just that I had little faith in a publisher I had never before heard of. One volume, sure. but a second? In today's market? Good luck with that! Now I'm wondering if there's going to be a third volume.
SHIPPED TODAY: Society is NIX! - Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip - 1895-1915
A revised and expanded edition of the Eisner-nominated book on the earliest American comics, with over 200 classic strips, by over 75 cartoonists: the "Founders of the Funnies."
"Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!" So said The Inspector about the Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture found in the surrounding pages. Society didn't stand a chance!
These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in their field-historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second, revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips! The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown.
The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next century of comics to come!
As the above solicitation indicates, this is a revised and expanded edition of an earlier release. I didn't buy the original, and I think the reason was because, today, I sent a subliminal message to myself in the past telling myself not to preorder it so that I could buy the updated version today guilt-free. (I have discovered that sending messages to myself in the past is my super-power. It's the only way to explain such phenomena as not buying something like this in the past, which ultimately benefits me years later.)
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