trades week
This week, I will be talking about trade paperbacks.
trade mpaperbacks are collections of comics into complete stroylines, usually in groups of six. THis means that you can read the entire story at once, without advertisements, and catch up on things you missed.
It has revolutionised the industry. Not only can you pick up a book that tells the entire story of the death of gwen stacy, but in a couple of months, you wil be able to pick up a couple of trades and see the entire run of 52-which I will comment on soon. promise!
unfortunately, there have been some problems with it too, as many writers and publishers write stroies with the trade in mind. There are fewer loose ends, and everything gets wrapped up in 6 issues. As well, there are fewer interlocking comics than before the trade.
As well, older comics do not translate neatly into the trade paperback. iof they are collecting "our worlds at war" then they have to leave out many titles, and the artwork varies greatly within the book, due to different titles and artists during the event.
Over all, however, the impact of the trade paperback has been good for comics; it has brought more readers in, and helped them to get caught up, it has brought attention to the storytelling possibility of comics(road to perdition, sin city, history of violence) and it has created a less messy way for people who are not serious collectors to gather their favortite stories for continued reading.
Next: trade 1-batman:the long halloween
trade mpaperbacks are collections of comics into complete stroylines, usually in groups of six. THis means that you can read the entire story at once, without advertisements, and catch up on things you missed.
It has revolutionised the industry. Not only can you pick up a book that tells the entire story of the death of gwen stacy, but in a couple of months, you wil be able to pick up a couple of trades and see the entire run of 52-which I will comment on soon. promise!
unfortunately, there have been some problems with it too, as many writers and publishers write stroies with the trade in mind. There are fewer loose ends, and everything gets wrapped up in 6 issues. As well, there are fewer interlocking comics than before the trade.
As well, older comics do not translate neatly into the trade paperback. iof they are collecting "our worlds at war" then they have to leave out many titles, and the artwork varies greatly within the book, due to different titles and artists during the event.
Over all, however, the impact of the trade paperback has been good for comics; it has brought more readers in, and helped them to get caught up, it has brought attention to the storytelling possibility of comics(road to perdition, sin city, history of violence) and it has created a less messy way for people who are not serious collectors to gather their favortite stories for continued reading.
Next: trade 1-batman:the long halloween
posted by thomas at
7:03 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the feedback on The Secret, I pretty much agree after reading it. I think the underlying message is O.K., but that lady is a quack.
I like the sets of comics together as one, I'm too impatient to wait until each comes out, so I'll make sure I look for the sets!
when i worked at barnes and noble they would let the employees take home the damaged or discontinued trade paper books. they'd rip the cover off to signify the books worthlessness and let us take it home to add to our bathroom library. trade-paper should be ashamed of itself.
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