If you’d like a signed copy of How Comics Are Made, including an optional inscription, I’ve made this available in my store.| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Exciting day for me: the release of the bookstore edition of How Comics Are Made! Over the last few months, I’ve solicited and collected quotes from artists, writers, readers, and others about their reaction to the book. If you’re curious about whether it’s for you, these might help! (You can download to read as a PDF, too.)| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
In advance of the June 3 release date of How Comics Are Made, a new printing of my 2024 book, Rebekah Denn interviewed me for The Seattle Times about how the book came to be and my interests! It’s exciting to appear in the local newspaper. Andrews McMeel Publishing acquired the book last year after I shipped my edition, and as happy as I was with the printing I arranged and oversaw, I am equally squealing over this edition—mine was a softcover with french flaps; the new one is hardcover w...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Cover of How Comics Are Made, the Andrews McMeel Publishing edition Last year, I published How Comics Were Made, a look at the whole process from an newspaper cartoonist’s hands to the printed page, under my own imprint after a very successful Kickstarter campaign. It sold well over 2,000 copies, and the whole process was delightful. After the Kickstarter campaign, Andrews McMeel Publishing was in touch about acquiring future printings and editions. My self-published version sold out in Mar...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
This week I made two big changes in my career that I’m happy to share. First, I’ve taken the title of Executive Editor at Take Control Books, a publisher I’ve worked with from their launch in 2003 by Adam and Tonya Engst and since 2017 for Joe Kissell and Morgen Jahnke. Over that time, I’ve written so many titles I can’t remember them all, partly because of updates, mergers, and splits of books into new works. As executive editor, I will take on more editorial responsibility, partic...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Kickstarter has had long periods in which it has changed little about how to build, run, and manage post-campaign details. These lulls have been punctuated with major changes. When I got ready to launch the campaign for Six Centuries of Type & Printing earlier this year, I noticed that the company had added and tweaked lots of features. Some may have been in place for a year or more, but I believe only one was available when I launched How Comics Were Made in February 2024. I started using Ki...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
My publisher, Andrews McMeel, just sent me a few advance copies of the upcoming bookstore edition of How Comics Are Made, which hits the shelves June 3, 2025. I did a modest unboxing so you can see the new cover components and the great job their printer did on this mass-market edition. I’m quite pleased in every regard! You can snag a copy ahead of time by pre-ordering from many fine bookstores of all sizes. I’ve provided a list of pre-order links for a range of from local stores up to i...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Update April 2, 2025, and noted where that’s the case. I didn’t set out to print books in Canada to stake out a political position, although it’s indirectly become that. A few years ago, when I was obtaining bids for my client-author Marcin Wichary (Shift Happens) to print his books, we checked in with Hemlock Printers in Burnaby, B.C., Canada (adjacent to Vancouver). This was 2021 and then 2022. The Canadian border had been closed for a while. The future of the COVID pandemic’s direc...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
My currently active titles. An extended Pi Day sale is currently underway at Take Control Books, an ebook publisher where I have nine active titles. You get 31.4% off all titles; if you own existing books, that discount applies to upgrade pricing, too! No coupon is needed, and the sale lasts until Monday night. How Comics Are Made, coming June 3, 2025 Last week, I finished out sales of my 2024 book How Comics Were Made, a look at the history of newspaper comics production and reproduction. Th...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Update, February 2025: There’s now a coupon-less discount on the website—click the link below to see it. A couple of weeks ago, I began offering a 10% discount off the print edition of How Comics Were Made, my comics history book that traces cartoons from an artist’s hand to the printed newspaper page—or digital display. This was partly as a post-holiday sale, and partly out of the concern the incoming administration would impose tariffs on all goods entering from Canada, where my boo...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
Wait, tense as in the time indicated by the verb—not as in the action! My book How Comics Were Made has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Publishing and will be issued in a second printing, shipping in June 2025. My Kickstarter edition—which remains for sale while copies last—is a laminated softcover with French flaps. The Andrews McMeel retail version will be a hardcover with a dust jacket—a nice contrast. It will also be sold under the name How Comics Are Made with a refreshed cover t...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
The 2024 German market, while seeing a stabilization in ebook and audiobook markets, saw entrenched shortcomings in literacy continue.| Publishing Perspectives
The seminar of the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice explores 'Constants and Variables of the Publishing Profession.'| Publishing Perspectives
I’m trying a new thing here. Every month on Patreon I post a writeup of how (and where) the month has gone; these are always public and free to anyone who cares to visit, but a lot of people …| The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel
In the seaside town of Southport is a museum called The Atkinson. This has no connection to Surgeon Lieutenant E.L. Atkinson R.N., but does have a polar connection in that Frederick Hooper, Terra N…| The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel
Worst Journey: The Graphic Novel is getting a German release! On 23 May 2023, the super-large deluxe Die Schlimmste Reise der Welt will hit the shelves.| The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel