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That ZOT! volume just came out this week, if anyone's interested. It doesn't reprint ALL of McCloud's Zot, it reprints issues 11-36 (the first 10 issues, published buy Eclipse in color, are issues that McCloud doesn't feel are good enough to warrant reprinting, basically) and does not include Matt Feazell's famous Zot # 10 1/2 minicomic.
Zot! is one of the more touching, fun, moving, genuine, well-executed comics I've read in my lifetime (and I've been reading for -- mumble mumble, counts fingers -- 24 years). I strongly recommend picking up this volume. McCloud's black and white art shines here; it's manga-influenced without being OEL ToykoPop kind of stuff (and this was before most people in the US had 'discovered' manga, back in the mid-to-late 80s). These stories moved me and inspired me back when I first read them, and they really hold up well today. McCloud gives commentary and other details, sketches, thumbnails ("director's cut" type stuff for comics, as is the norm these days) that enhance the volume, and the design and quality of the published volume is top-notch. HarperCollins published it, and I think it comes in at about $30 or something like that (it's a huge volume, a la one of Jeff Smith's BONE books published by mainstream literary world publishers). |
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