Comments on: Midnight Sun #3 – This Wednesday

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:40:02 +0000

i just heard on isr and i wanted to say that i’m really disappointed that you’ll stop publishing Midnight Sun as a floppy. I love to visit the store every couple of weeks and see whats available in the non tights and flights section. Your book is/was a little gleam of light. I have so many other gns to buy that i’m afraid you’ll prob slip off the list at some point. I like the small managable (both financially and temporally) books in floppy format that i can pass around to friends and linger on between issues.

I wish you all the best.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:02:15 +0000

You may like the monthly format, but as I wrote about issue #1, this doesn’t really work in that format, does it? I have bought but haven’t read issues #2 and 3 because I simply wait until mini-series are done before reading them, but I think this will work MUCH better in graphic novel form, despite the inherent difficulties with publishing and marketing and distributing. I look forward to this in its complete form, because it just didn’t seem to work broken up into chapters. Good luck pulling it all together. I’ll be keeping my eye out for it.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:05:09 +0000

Hi Ben, I just picked up issue 3 and really loved it. I’ve been plugging your book at my review site since it debuted: http://thirteenminutes.blogspot.com

I’m sad to hear that this will be the final “floppy” issue, but overjoyed to know I’ll be able to pick it up in OGN format. Really enjoy your work!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:38:30 +0000

Lately, I’m finding the influence of the graphic novel on prose book design interesting–as with Adverbs by Daniel Handler. And Chris Ware recently did an awesome cover for the Virgina Quarterly Review. For a while there was that idea that a graphic novel had to look like a prose book to be legitimate. Now it’s as if for a prose book (or a literary journal) to be hip, it should look like a graphic novel.

You’re right: pamphlets seem to be going right out as a viable format. It’s too bad because I like them too, even if they are a pain in the butt to store attractively in one’s home. Emo Boy had to be canceled as a pamphlet as well, as did Next Exit. With graphic novels being seen as more legitimate as long as they are perceived as artsy-yet-hip, we’re hoping that market will do a bit better for us, and we’ve been putting in the design effort. We’re doing two OGNs this year.

Issue three looks really pretty.