Graphic novel poll

[Wake]

I email Jason about the concept of original graphic novels featuring 2000AD characters. His reply was that the numbers just wouldn't add up with the current level of sales. A book would need to sell 20 or 30 thousand copies to make it worthwhile commissioning 48 pages of original art and script.

He did like my other idea though, which is kind of a half-way house. Watch this space.

Wake

[Something Fishy]

But they did produce the two advertised in the future shop.

I take it these are a bit of a risk then?

[Wake]

Those are reprints, so you don't have to pay the writer and artist up front a second time, just royalties based on sales.

Wake

[Smiley]

He did like my other idea though, which is kind of a half-way house.

I hope this is going to be reprints with specially commissioned bridging material, by the original creators. Like Titan's first ABC Warriors books?

[Wake]

Something like that.

So does ABC Warriors Book 1 contain additional pages then? If so, I ought to make a note of that under the relevant stories on the website.

Wake

[paulvonscott]

If rebellion just published them themselves in megazine format (as I've said before not a bad vehicle for this stuff, I was always fond of my die laughing book) then maybe it would be affordable.  

If you add an extra quid (maybe ?2) on top of the usual ?3.95 for a 100 page new graphic novel (die laughing was ?4.95).  If you sell 10,000 then that would have given you an extra thousand pounds to pay for the new art, plus whatever you'd spend on sixty pages of original material for something like the megazine.

If it also went into the same shops as the meagzine, how many people wouldn't want to buy a 100 page new Dredd novel by wagner and X (let's say Cam Kennedy mmmm....) relatively cheaply?  

If it happened semi regularly you could then try out other characters like stront and rogue (but, heh, not sin/dex of course).  Anything that doesn't sell in the shops could end up in the future shop.

A 100 pages represents something over a 16 part traditional AD story.  The equivalant of a series and a half and really just as nice as a graphic novel, bar some slightly thicker card and covers which adds ?10 to the price.

Not being an expert in such things, the figures may not add up, but I'd like to see something like that even if it's when AD is a bit stronger.

[Smiley]

There was a prologue strip in Titan's "ABC Warriors Book 1" and an epilogue strip in "Book 2", two halves of a Ro-Busters story (by Mills & O'Neill) about Hammerstein & Ro-Jaws visiting the ABC war memorial. It book-ended the reprint material. I don't know if this story was published anywhere else, though it is listed as a lost thrill.

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?page=lostthrills" target="_blank">Lost Thrills

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[The Amstor Computer]

I'm not entirely sure (it's in storage right now), but I think the new ABC Warriors book (Meknificent Seven) had the Ro-Jaws/Hammerstein story included.

[Wood]

It does.

[Something Fishy]

What were they reprinted from Wake?