Comments on: Walt and Skeezix http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Tue, 21 May 2013 22:26:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Comics Worth Reading http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-33920 Comics Worth Reading Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:36:20 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-33920

[...] XHTML Google Advertisements Drawn & Quarterly Sale CATEGORY: Graphic Novel News AUTHOR: Johanna POSTED: 2006-05-21 11:15 am The front page of theDrawn & Quarterly website shows “Spring Sale – all titles 25-75% off!”, but it’s very hard to find out if that’s true. The catalog page displays a master list of all their titles, with US and Canadian prices shown, but no indication of what list price on the items usually is. I randomly sampled some books only to find that Walt & Skeezik is 35% off, the Berlin collection and Perfect Example are 30% off, the coffee-table anthologies are 50% off (great deal!), but Adrian Tomine’s 32 Stories is only 10% off. [...]

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Johanna Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:31:34 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-639 Great research skills, John, thanks!

]]> By: John Jakala http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-637 John Jakala Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:04:57 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-637 Here’s what Peggy Burns had to say over at Newsarama back on 7/11/2005 (scroll down to the last post):

Here are some quick replies to the some of the questions that have been posed in this thread:

1) Do the dailies and Sunday pages form the same continuity?

No, they have parallel stories but you can easily read them separately. Mostly the dailies have a storyline while the Sundays are usually stand alone. So the Sunday books will compliment the dailies but you can start reading the dailies now and not fear missing anything.

2) When will we see the Sundays?

Soon, soon. Drawn and Quarterly is working on releasing the first volume of Sundays, covering the years 1921-1922, next year.

3) What about the mystery of Skeezix origins?

This will be mostly explained in the next few volumes that cover the 1920s. However, there are still some unresolved questions that are occasionally mentioned in the strip to this very day. So Skeezix is in fact and 80 year mystery.

thanks for all of the great feedback! visit time.com to see andrew arnold’s review of the book:

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,1081304,00.html

Peggy Burns
D+Q

So it sounds like we should be seeing the Sunday strips collected starting sometime this year.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Johanna Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:03:35 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-636 That’s a good point, John, that our personal interests and placement affect how we interact with art.

]]> By: John Jakala http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-635 John Jakala Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:40:15 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-635 I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this collection. Like you, I was wowed by the Sunday strips presented in the Drawn & Quarterly anthologies, but I wasn’t so sure I’d enjoy the B&W daily strips. Shawn Hoke’s review convinced me to try it out, though, and I’m glad I did. Of course, the fact that I just recently entered parenthood myself probably had a lot to do with me being able to appreciate Walt’s devotion to Skeezix.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Johanna Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:37:52 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-634 I thought I’d heard that they were, which is why they were left out of this collection, but now I can’t find any definitive news or release date.

]]> By: kenchen http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/comment-page-1/#comment-632 kenchen Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:28:54 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/walt-and-skeezix/#comment-632 So, are they really putting out a book of his sunday strips? I thought the two Drawn and Quarterly issues collected everything.

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