Publishers Weekly’s Comics Week also confirms something that’s been speculated about since at least September: Vertigo will release a new edition of Demo, Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Eisner-nominated series.
The 12-issue series, first published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, tells self-contained stories about ordinary, if often troubled, young people with extraordinary powers. It was collected as a trade paperback in 2005.
In September, Wood and Cloonan announced the publishing and media rights had reverted back to them, kicking off rumors that Demo would find a home at Vertigo. DC-exclusive Wood is writing DMZ and Northlanders for the imprint, while Cloonan has been illustrating American Virgin, which ends in January.
Rich Johnston has reported that a new Demo series is planned at Vertigo.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:43 am
I picked up the single issues, but this was a great book. As is Local…
November 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Y’know, I’m pretty sure Brian announced this like a week or two ago.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Is anyone ever going to, like, practice some journalism and do an article about whatever the hell’s happening at AiT?
November 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Where, Kent?
November 14th, 2007 at 10:55 am
John,
What’s happening at AiT is what’s always happened. They publish books. Some are liked, some are not. People come and go. Larry Young stays the same.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Whoops! Sorry. It wasn’t Brian that announced it. Rich Johnston mentioned it in last week’s LITG (under Mounted Previews http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2919) and had a link to it being solicited here: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Demo-Vol-01-Brian-Woods/9781401216214-item.html
Sorry. Memory is getting faulty in my old age.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:00 am
And indeed the “speculated about since at least September” doesn’t link to any speculation that the book would be going to Vertigo.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I linked to Rich’s first mention in September. The other link is, of course, to the announcement about the reversion of rights.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Rich is so transparent. Can’t say anything bad about AIT because he might land a book there one day. He’s so desperate to be in the industry. Meanwhile AIT has more or less imploded and alienated all its real talent. But at least it’s still got Larry Young. No connection, I’m sure.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Indeed, Jason, it’s fascinating to see how selective Johnston is about which companies merit behind-the-scenes investigation (insofar as anything he does could be considered “investigative”) and which merit a “nothing to see here!” Of course, there’s no reason someone other than Rich Johnston couldn’t write a piece about what’s been happening at AiT these last few years.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I’m a little curious as to what the original contract with AiT/Planet Lar was like when it comes to rights reversion. Usually that happens only when the book goes out of print.
November 14th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Can’t say anything bad about AiT because I might land a book there one day?
Jason, don’t be a twat. I say all sorts of things about all sorts of publishers. Whether I land a book there or not is immaterial. I’m in the industry - the advertising industry. If I was desperate to be in the industry I wouldn’t write a gossip column about it. AiT has been imploding and exploding pretty much its entire life going from publishing one books to six to two, to eight, to one, to four. And yes, Larry has always been a part of that. He inspires revulsion and devotion on an ever-changing case by case basis.
There’s no selection whatsoever. If there’s a story, there’s a story regardless of publisher. All it needs is people willing to talk. Even with the likes of Dreamwave and Rick Olney that took years.
Jeffrey, a number of contracts I’ve seen for various publications cover a set number of prints, or allow notice to be given for reversion.