Comics Reporter extraordinaire Tom Spurgeon has an interview with cartoonist Richard Sala about his new book, “The Grave Robber’s Daughter,” including, among other things, this little nugget:
I loved doing the Evil Eye comic book, but it made no sense to keep doing it that way, since — outside of a few comic book stores — no living soul could ever see it! So I discussed it with Kim [Thompson] at Fantagraphics and he agreed. The idea was to continue to do Evil Eye, but to change the format to stand-alone, digest-sized graphic novellas.
Yet one more artist moves away from the pamphlet format. Interesting.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Richard Sala’s one of my absolute favorites, but The Grave Robber’s Daughter just doesn’t stand up to his longer works. I really wish he’d consider putting out one killer OGN every two years or so, rather than a good effort every year.
But I suppose he has his reasons. And his new Delphine series seems like it might give me what I want. Speaking of which–I think this belies your point, Chris. Delphine is in the Ignatz format, so it’s not a traditional pamphlet-style comic. But it’s still a periodical.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I had forgotten about Delphine, that’s a good point. Still, it is noteworthy that Eye is moving to a more trade-friendly format, considering it was billed as Sala’s flagship series.