The first book will be centered on a theme, like the popular Pugs collection, which gathered all the pug strips into one book. The new collection is themed for book-lovers: It's called LITERATURE: Unsuccessfully Competing Against TV Since 1953, and gathers all the Sheldon bibliophile strips into one book. It's everything from Twain to Tolkien, Seuss to Shakespeare.
The book will be available at SDCC, and then will be available in the Sheldon Store a week or so later, when we've had the big LA book-launch party. Here's the cover (or click here for a larger image):
The second book will be the first collection of DRIVE strips! It'll have the same shape as the Sheldon books, but will feel closer to those 50-page Marvel/DC novelettes, with glossy interior pages. I'm excited for it! Here's the cover (...for a larger image, click here):
The Drive book will have a super limited print-run -- just a few hundred copies -- but remaining copies will be available in the store after the San Diego show ends.
Anyway, I can't wait for you guys to see 'em!
"The Drive book will have a super limited print-run -- just a few hundred copies -- but remaining copies will be available in the store after the San Diego show ends." Yeah, right. As if you would not sell out at ComicCon! When is the second printing, so I can have one?
Gotta hand it to you, Dave: the cover design for the Drive book is brilliant.
I love the title placement; I read it initially top to bottom, "Rises a Hero", then recognized that you probably called it "A Hero Rises". I think both work, so congrats on the (perhaps unintentional) brilliance!
I'll miss you at SDCC. The economy is not allowing me to attend, even though I live right here in town. Keep up the amazing work on both strips!
Please Please PLEASE keep a few copies of the Drive collection at home so us poor schleps who can't make it to SDCC this year can get a copy!!
I totally agree. Keep some extras for the dedicated Drive fans like us who can't make it to SDCC!
Will the new book be the same as others with artists edition?
I really hope drive gets sold online it's a long way to go to get a book from Australia.
