fono-migration

Only until you get your hands on the purple… But yeah, I wanted orange and blue first because if we didn't get the opportunity to do the other two, at least they make a nice looking pair, and they're common colors for the period we're referencing for them to work on that level. I do hope we get to see the concept through and make it a set of four, however. Should make a really smart display piece arranged together like the colors on the 1st printing cover.

Nowhere Men is more popular than Jesus.

Whether the print run on a book is 500 or 50,000, there will generally be a couple hundred copies set aside to be divided between the creators and publishing staff, because people who work to bring the book to you deserve to have copies for themselves for their efforts. And ultimately, it's the collector community that determines the value of our comps. ‘Printing money’, as someone put it, is never a given. No one would be casting aspersions on what is SOP for hundreds of books a year if the market decided all these were good for is lining birdcages.

It's actually pretty simple. Reprints are available to anyone by pre-ordering at their LCS, with those numbers determining the print run. Variants in this case are a fixed number of copies exclusive to certain events/stores/organizations.

The genesis was largely that I had a neat concept for an alternate cover style, and we found a practical reason for them to exist. We could just as easily have rebranded with each new arc—which is something that I also pitched—but I hope folks would agree that they serve a better purpose helping out the CBLDF and rewarding the retail community.

The only numbers I tend to deal in are page specs.

These are giveaways to a supportive retail community. There's really no correlation with variant programs that encourage retailers to take greater risks by inflating their orders.

Ellen Raskin's cover illustration for the first edition of A Wrinkle in Time was the inspiration for the Thought Bubble cover (also 'Inside World Corp' in #2). Just about everything design related is a reference to something, and mid-century modern style informs much of the book's aesthetic (and that extends to the fashion and furniture Nate draws). The #1 cover is based on Lawrence Raskin's jacket design for The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, for instance, and the Thomas Walker interview was patterned after the classic Playboy interview. I'm hoping to be able to include an appendix of all these easter eggs in the collections, including the many musical references within the -script.

The CBLDF Liberty Variant is only the second variant of #1, after the Thought Bubble edition. Regular printings have white backgrounds, while any limited edition variants we've done or we decide to do in future will have colored backgrounds, making it simple to differentiate.

No.

From what I recall, some names and appearances differ in those back-ups from the current version, so I wouldn't think they'd count.

Yeah, it's the ink. You don't notice so much when paper is gloss coated, but in contrast to the matte stock we're using, you appreciate how reflective the ink itself actually is. A neat thing about this paper is if you look very, very closely with the book tilted towards the light, you can just about make out the raised edges of the ink lying on the surface.

I haven't even touched a thought bubble, but from the pictures the paper quality looks lighter/glossier. IMHO It's the same matte paper on both. It's actually the ink that has a slight sheen. You can check the white parts of the TB cover (logo, figures) and see they're non-reflective.

Occasionally, but not in a while. Haven't let go of any Nowhere Men as yet.

Damn… that's more than I got in comps. Thanks for the kind words, gents.