Slam_Bradley
05-31-2006, 07:28 AM
It has been reported a few places that Fantagraphics will be reprinting Popeye comic strips again.
Six volumes, hardcover. Same size, more or less, as the original Fanta books from long ago (the big Sunday ones). Each book contains half dailies (six to a page) and half Sundays (in color), except for the first which is 3/4 dailies (because Popeye was a co-star in the dailies for more than a year before he showed up in the Thimble Theatre Sundays). Dailies in the front of the book, Sundays in the back (since there is no cross-continuity.) One every six months. We've got all the Sundays for the first volume scanned and are working our way through the dailies even as I speak. Introduction and annotations by Bill Blackbeard. A later book will contain a non-strip Segar POPEYE sequence that so far as I know has never been reprinted.
The first volume (with a mock-up cover) is up at Amazon with a September 15 ship date.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560977795/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/103-8497197-7587026?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Six volumes, hardcover. Same size, more or less, as the original Fanta books from long ago (the big Sunday ones). Each book contains half dailies (six to a page) and half Sundays (in color), except for the first which is 3/4 dailies (because Popeye was a co-star in the dailies for more than a year before he showed up in the Thimble Theatre Sundays). Dailies in the front of the book, Sundays in the back (since there is no cross-continuity.) One every six months. We've got all the Sundays for the first volume scanned and are working our way through the dailies even as I speak. Introduction and annotations by Bill Blackbeard. A later book will contain a non-strip Segar POPEYE sequence that so far as I know has never been reprinted.
The first volume (with a mock-up cover) is up at Amazon with a September 15 ship date.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560977795/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/103-8497197-7587026?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155