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'XKCD: Volume 0' is sticking it to traditional publishers
What's the most stupidly ambitious aspect of "XKCD: Volume 0," the book based on the wildly popular yet still very underground webcomic: Is it the assumption that cartoonist Randall Munroe's uber tech-savvy audience would pay for a hard-copy version of...
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Nov. 5, 2009: Carrying it over
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... France’s reluctance to pay for the annual comics festival that bears its name? Nevermind (Google translation). ICv2 reports that R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated (cover pictured at right) made its debut at #2 in BookScan’s estimates for the top-twenty graphic novels sold through bookstores in October. ’s top-150 bestselling books chart has it at #129. Mark Milian looks at Randall Munroe’s publishing strategy for the first xkcd book ...

Whatevah It's Friday
COMIXTALK — ... TOOLS Scott McCloud has a post (and comment thread) on the ratio of comic to controls (navigatin) to crap (everything else) on the screen.   BOOKS An interview with Randall Munroe on the unusual publishing strategy for his first book, xkcd, Volume 0. JUSTIFY MY HYPE Rebecca Dart illustrates an old murder ballad.  Everyone is linking to this today and with good reason - Dart's imagination and the linework for the comic ...

Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — ... Publishing | Mark Miliad eyes the success of Randall Munroe's XKCD: Volume 0, a collection of his popular webcomic, and marvels at the cartoonist's "nontraditional route" to publishing. [Jacket Copy] ...

Comics A.M. - The Comics Internet in 2 Minutes
Comic Book Resources — ... ] Publishing | Mark Miliad eyes the success of Randall Munroe's XKCD: Volume 0 , a collection of his popular webcomic, and marvels at the cartoonist's "nontraditional route" to publishing. [ Jacket Copy ] Publishing | Scott Dunbier, special projects editor of IDW Publishing, discusses the 50th anniversary of The Family Circus and the company's hardcover library series. [ ...

Linkarama@Newsarama
Blog@Newsarama — ... “What’s the most stupidly ambitious aspect of “XKCD Vol. 0,” the book based on the wildly popular yet still very underground webcomic”…?: Here’s an LA Times blog post profiling the plans for Randall Munroe’s XKCD hardcopy collection. ...

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