{"id":631,"date":"2007-10-02T02:42:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/10\/02\/clear-sailing-through-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T02:44:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:44:15","slug":"clear-sailing-through-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Clear Sailing Through Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TekkonOne of the things I was really looking forward to, when I got back from Japan, was the freeing-up of my schedule. I’ve been ‘in the shit’ as they say since June or July at this point. The lead-up to San Diego, the lead-up to TCAF, the lead-up to my Japan trip, and finally, the lead-up to Toronto’s The Word On The Street<\/em> where I organised and co-hosted a full day of programming (with special thanks to the always-wonderful Mark Askwith, of course). With WOTS finally over (it went fabulously, thanks for asking) there’s now nothing on my plate, extra-curricular-wise, until Christmas. Business as usual at the store, no major changes coming up at home, things will hopefully be if not calm, then more managable than the past 4 months.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, comics has continued at an astounding pace without me. TEKKON KINKREET, my most-recently championed project, has done phenomenally well for us. I haven’t checked in with Viz yet, but here in Toronto it’s selling particularly well (although mentioning it in the blog 10-15 times probably didn’t hurt none). I’d say we’ve moved better than 20 copies at this point, and about 8 of the DVDs (which is by all accounts phenomenal, I’m waiting for a quiet night to enjoy it), and I’m pretty happy with those numbers, particularly as the velocity actually picked up, last week. I hope this isn’t a situation where what we do at The Beguiling isn’t reflected anywhere else in the industry, because at the very least this is a great book by a great creator, and it deserves an audience.<\/p>\n

\"shortcomings-212.jpg\"I actually read a LOT of comics last week, both getting ready for my “History of Comics” presentation as well as just wanting to catch up on everything I’d missed while I was away. The new issue of Giant Robot (an Asian culture magazine, not just about robots but also books\/film\/lifestyle\/etc.) features a cover-story on Adrian Tomine in advance of his new graphic novel Shortcomings<\/em>, and the interview and lovely cover art are worth the price of admission. Shortcomings<\/em> is very good as well, I’ve even got a half of a review written on it that talks about liking a book even though you don’t like any of the characters in it. I might get it finished or I might not, we’ll see.<\/p>\n

Actually it’s just after 2, I should probably get to bed early for a change. Tomorrow our orders are due to Diamond, and I’m only about 50% done at this point. I know it’s pretty late in the game to be complaining about the September Previews (the new one’s been out for a week already), but my god, there are a lot of crappy, crappy COUNTDOWN spin-offs coming down the pipe, aren’t there? Our COUNTDOWN sell-through has slid to about half of what it was at the beginning of the series (and about a third of our 52 numbers), so I don’t know who DC expects will be buying all of these terrible-looking mini-series, but I’m certainly not going to risk any money on it. Yikes.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’d rather go out on a high-note, so I’ll show you the lovely cover to the recent Giant Robot<\/a><\/strong> magazine that I was talking about. It’s by Adrian Tomine, and it’s available in better comic book stores (like The Beguiling) and on better newstands everywhere, right now.<\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I was really looking forward to, when I got back from Japan, was the freeing-up of my schedule. I’ve been ‘in the shit’ as they say since June or July at this point. The lead-up to San Diego, the lead-up to TCAF, the lead-up to my Japan trip, and finally, the … <\/p>\n

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