I’m a regular listener to the Indie Spinner Rack podcast, so how cool is it that they’re talking about Midnight Sun in the current episode! (Direct link to MP3 here.) They’ve got some good stuff to say about the book, but more interesting for the general comics audience, they use the book’s format change, and my blog post thereon, to talk a bit about the fate of the venerable “floppy” comic book–as opposed to the trade paperback or “graphic novel” format that has been really taking off in recent years. Go check it out!
A few corrections, however:
First, my last name, Towle, is pronounced like “toll.”
The “Vado” in Dan Vado, president of SLG Publishing, is I believe pronounced such that it rhymes with “Prado,” or “motto,” not “Play-doh.”
More important, though, regarding the SLG “name change” mentioned in the show. SLG has not, in fact, changed its name to Amaze Ink. Amaze Ink is, and has been for some time, SLG’s all-ages imprint. Things like Patty Cake, Jet Pack Pets and (maybe my favorite thing SLG has ever published, the highly underrated and overlooked) The Replacement God are all Amaze Ink books. For obvious alphabetic reasons, they list themselves in Diamond Previews (the comics industry’s pre-ordering catalog) as “Amaze Ink/SLG” rather than “SLG/Amaze Ink. This put them at the very front of the “indie ghetto” section in the back… although it may now be the case that they’ve been usurped by them weasels at First Second, who are technically listed as “:01 First Second.”
Years ago, the company did officially change names from “Slave Labor Graphics” to “SLG Publishing.”
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