{"id":588,"date":"2008-01-10T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2008-01-10T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:25:52","slug":"comic-reprint-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/comic-reprint-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Reprint Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always get into threads on the Comics Journal message board where people discuss dream reprint comics… here’s the current thread<\/a>, and below is my response.<\/p>\n

These are indeed the best times ever for comics reprints. I second or third much of the above. Barnaby <\/em>was the first one that popped in my mind… and boy do I wish someone would do for the Barks stories what Dark Horse is currently doing with Little Lulu<\/em>. An affordable complete Wash Tubbs\/Captain Easy<\/em> would be fantastic too. A complete Polly and Her Pals<\/em> would be wonderful.<\/p>\n

I’d start with Humbug<\/a><\/em>, Trump <\/a><\/em>and Help!<\/em> by Kurtzman, but it sounds like that is all happening this year! Huzzah! About damn time.<\/p>\n

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Then I’d move to Pogo<\/em>, but Fantagraphics has that covered soon too.<\/p>\n

In no particular order:<\/p>\n

The Doo Dads<\/em> by Arch Dale
\nThe Complete Comics of Johnny Gruelle
\nEverything by Walt Kelly that is not Pogo<\/em>
\nThe Non-Disney Carl Barks (the Barks Bear Book<\/em> is very cool, but the reproductions are abysmal)
\nJingle Jangle Tales<\/em> by George Carlson
\nThe Gumps<\/em> by Sidney Smith
\nBarney Google<\/em> by Billy DeBeck
\nStumble Inn<\/em> by George Herriman
\nThe Complete Steven<\/em> by Doug Allen (this would be a best-seller if it was marketed well, I think… one of the funniest strips ever. How does this not already exist?)
\nThe Complete Heiji<\/em> and other comic strips of Dr. Seuss (if there are any other comic strips… I don’t think this would be a very big book, but it would certainly sell well)
\nA library of the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse<\/em> adventure strips
\nThe Complete Odd Bodkins<\/em> by Dan O’Neill
\nThe Complete Non-Freak Brothers<\/em> work by Gilbert Shelton
\nA collection of Craig Thompson’s Kids Strips Drawn for Nickelodeon Magazine<\/em>
\nThe Otto Messmer Felix the Cat<\/em> Library (again, the Dark Horse Little Lulu format would suit this perfectly, and I can’t think of a better comic for small children… if marketed to the children’s book market, these would sell wonderfully, I think)
\nRichard Outcault’s Buster Brown<\/em>
\nThe Compleek Gustave Verbeek<\/em>
\nBig, Heavy, Book of A.D. Condo’s Everett True<\/em> (usable as a projectile)
\nThe Comic Strips of Milt Gross
\nA Complete Caricatures of Al Hirschfeld<\/em> book along the lines of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker<\/em>
\nBoob McNutt<\/em> by Rube Goldberg
\nThe Complete Cartoons of Gluyas Williams
\nThe Comics of Jimmy Swinnerton
\nThe Comics of Tad Dorgan
\nThe Comics of Harry Grant Dart
\nMr. and Mrs.<\/em> by Claire Briggs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always get into threads on the Comics Journal message board where people discuss dream reprint comics… here’s the current thread, and below is my response. These are indeed the best times ever for comics reprints. I second or third … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-9u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}