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really big book
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 15:29 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
are there any plans for making a giant usagi collection, like all of the books to date, that would be GRRRRRREAT!
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 21:02 -0700
by Todd Shogun
Wouldn't work. There are too many pages. The book would need to be printed on very thin paper that would not do Stan's artwork justice.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 23:13 -0700
by Avylin
Even if you disregard the vast size a single tome of Usagi Yojimbo comics, the fact that the series is far from over would make it pretty silly.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:44 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
well like an aniversary edition, like celebrating the so and so year aniversary, with bonus pages and pictures and stuff
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 14:10 -0700
by JoeK
Has anyone seen the size of Jeff Smith's complete 'Bone' book - Only 9 books in all, and it's massive!
As long as Dark Horse keep on publishing the collected editions with as much care as they seem to be doing at the moment, I'm quite proud to have them sitting on my bookshelf!
18 books and counting down to the next one!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 15:32 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
ive only got all the collections, i can never seem to get my hands on just single storys
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 16:56 -0700
by Indiana Usagi
I like the TPBs better...for some reason, the single issues seem to be...cheapened somehow (don't kill me!). The paper is thinner, and for some reason it's just not the same looking to me. But I prefer to be able to have volumes instead of individual issues anyway, so I'm sure that ahs something to do with it.
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 13:32 -0700
by JoeK
Indiana Usagi wrote:I like the TPBs better...for some reason, the single issues seem to be...cheapened somehow (don't kill me!). The paper is thinner, and for some reason it's just not the same looking to me. But I prefer to be able to have volumes instead of individual issues anyway, so I'm sure that ahs something to do with it.
I've found that the slightly smaller size of the tbps enhances the artwork (which, as you've mentioned, is also helped by the higher quality stock).
Stan (if you're reading this!), was it a deliberate decision to make the collected works smaller?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 14:42 -0700
by Stan Sakai
JoeK wrote:
I've found that the slightly smaller size of the tbps enhances the artwork (which, as you've mentioned, is also helped by the higher quality stock).
Stan (if you're reading this!), was it a deliberate decision to make the collected works smaller?
Fantagraphics started collecting the Usagi stories long before "graphic novels" were popular. Store did not know where to display such books. However, trade paperbacks in smaller formats were around (popularized by such books as Kliban Cats, and 101 Things to do with a Dead Cat). To get them on the shelves, we formatted the collections into those trade paperback size--midway between a pocket book and comic book size.
Even with the current popularity of graphic novels, I still prefer the smaller size.