I think they'll eventually do a collection of Flesh again - because there's so much film interest in the IP. And there's another Jurassic film due out. I regularly get film companies asking if the rights are available. At one stage they weren't when there were abortive plans to make it as a tv series in house. Possibly the rights are available now. But why would they tell me? I'm only the effing creator
Yeah, I have very limited shelf space, too. I'm reminded of a well known comic fan and publisher who kept physical copies of comic books in his loft. According to one story, the floorboards gave way under the great weight and the books crashed down into the floor below.
I have this problem with my book collection. I thought I'd have my study lined with bookshelves by now. In the right light, you can see the impression of the attic joists in the upstairs ceilings. Gulp!
Good points, Andrew. There's no ideal answer. I'd prefer comic book, but realise it has other negative associations. Certainly in my experience there's tremendous snobbery in comics and it focusses around the words GN. Maybe younger readers will get used to it and not be put off. That's the important thing for me.
Fond memories of Montpellier. Olivier Ledroit and the late Eric Larnoy used to live there. I met them there and that's how Sha and Shadowslayer came about
I like the electronic comics, because they’re portable and don’t need as much shelf space, but I understand that that they’re not for every-one. And, as Dark Horse recently illustrated, they can just vanish.
Exactly. I bought Some digital collections from IDW that vanished into thin air. Never to return again. So it’s paper for me. And I sell or give away Comics that lose my interest.
I would love a collection of Flesh, or anything from Action. I read about these things but I want to judge them for myself. I’m having a read through of Sláine & The Horned God has blown me away, which was the same effect when I was 11 & reading book 3 in print. To put it into context as an adult is a great experience. Whatever you want to call them, these books are invaluable.
I thought you were talking about Les Dawson and Bernard Manning for a second, which is why I think using a term other than one that includes the word "comic" is fine. "Comics" stems from the fact that newspaper sections with cartoons were called the "funny papers". They were, by and large, comedic. Other genres soon joined the bandwagon, particularly pulp and romance - not funny-haha stuff, but the moniker stuck.
I think term graphic novel was used simply to differentiate the length of a work from "floppies", and I'm not sure snobbery was intended. We do so with prose (flash fiction, short story, novelette, novella, novel), but as it's the original form, it drops the prefix "prose". Newspaper comic strips are flash fiction, done-in-one 48pp are short stories, and so on. GN simply refers to a much longer cartoon story or the collection of a serialised story, just as Dickens' and Wells' novels were collected into prose novels.
If there's any snobbery in comics, I believe it's in the content (omnipresent in prose), and Alan Moore is the band leader on that one. But that's a whole other subject ;)
Love the term ‘Fat Comics’!!😂 Agree GN seems the wrong term, like comic album. Years ago as children we loved Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke - we just called them ‘books’!?
I think they'll eventually do a collection of Flesh again - because there's so much film interest in the IP. And there's another Jurassic film due out. I regularly get film companies asking if the rights are available. At one stage they weren't when there were abortive plans to make it as a tv series in house. Possibly the rights are available now. But why would they tell me? I'm only the effing creator
Yeah, I have very limited shelf space, too. I'm reminded of a well known comic fan and publisher who kept physical copies of comic books in his loft. According to one story, the floorboards gave way under the great weight and the books crashed down into the floor below.
I have this problem with my book collection. I thought I'd have my study lined with bookshelves by now. In the right light, you can see the impression of the attic joists in the upstairs ceilings. Gulp!
Good points, Andrew. There's no ideal answer. I'd prefer comic book, but realise it has other negative associations. Certainly in my experience there's tremendous snobbery in comics and it focusses around the words GN. Maybe younger readers will get used to it and not be put off. That's the important thing for me.
Fond memories of Montpellier. Olivier Ledroit and the late Eric Larnoy used to live there. I met them there and that's how Sha and Shadowslayer came about
I like the electronic comics, because they’re portable and don’t need as much shelf space, but I understand that that they’re not for every-one. And, as Dark Horse recently illustrated, they can just vanish.
Exactly. I bought Some digital collections from IDW that vanished into thin air. Never to return again. So it’s paper for me. And I sell or give away Comics that lose my interest.
I would love a collection of Flesh, or anything from Action. I read about these things but I want to judge them for myself. I’m having a read through of Sláine & The Horned God has blown me away, which was the same effect when I was 11 & reading book 3 in print. To put it into context as an adult is a great experience. Whatever you want to call them, these books are invaluable.
I thought you were talking about Les Dawson and Bernard Manning for a second, which is why I think using a term other than one that includes the word "comic" is fine. "Comics" stems from the fact that newspaper sections with cartoons were called the "funny papers". They were, by and large, comedic. Other genres soon joined the bandwagon, particularly pulp and romance - not funny-haha stuff, but the moniker stuck.
I think term graphic novel was used simply to differentiate the length of a work from "floppies", and I'm not sure snobbery was intended. We do so with prose (flash fiction, short story, novelette, novella, novel), but as it's the original form, it drops the prefix "prose". Newspaper comic strips are flash fiction, done-in-one 48pp are short stories, and so on. GN simply refers to a much longer cartoon story or the collection of a serialised story, just as Dickens' and Wells' novels were collected into prose novels.
If there's any snobbery in comics, I believe it's in the content (omnipresent in prose), and Alan Moore is the band leader on that one. But that's a whole other subject ;)
Love the term ‘Fat Comics’!!😂 Agree GN seems the wrong term, like comic album. Years ago as children we loved Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke - we just called them ‘books’!?
Spot on sir!!!
Fabcaro, one of our local superstar comics creators here (Montpellier), does all his work on the kitchen table.