You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!

Fantagraphics are about to release a follow-up to the hit reprint I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets: The Fantastic Comics Of Fletcher Hanks. The new volume, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, has been released for preorder from Fantagraphics, together with some goodies. A free Fletcher Hanks color book for those who preorder, downloadable wallpapers (including iPhone. Yay!) and a free pdf with two stories from the book. This is one of the volumes you have to get for 2009. More on this when I get my copy…

ISBN-10: 1606991604
ISBN-13: 978-1606991602

Hermes Press -- The Phantom

This is one of the things I dreamed about when I was twelve. Hermes Press releases The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies Volume 1: 1936-1938, a reprint of the Phantom dailies from the beginning in 1936. Their website however is retarded frame based, so I can’t link directly to the book, so here it is instead at Amazon.

Hermes plans on reprinting all the dailies up to and including Sy Barrys run on the strip, ending in 1994.

Nowadays, I don’t find this tempting at all – Not when there are a lot of other fine reprints being published like Popeye, Gasoline Alley, Peanuts, DC Archives etc etc. But I’m sure there are still a lot of twelve year olds out there for whom this counts as excellent news.

ISBN-10: 1932563415
ISBN-13: 978-1932563412