Comic Book Collections for Libraries -- in (online) stores now!

Comic Book Collections for Libraries is available for order on Amazon.com (contrary to what I said here). If this news interests you, hurry to the site and order — only three copies are left in stock!

Although I would be shocked if they didn’t get more eventually. Still: do you want to take that chance?

It's here!

Proof has finally arrived that the book I co-wrote, Comic Book Collections for Libraries, has actually been printed. My author’s copies arrived in the mail Monday (or possibly they arrived on Friday or Saturday; I was babysitting over the weekend).

Cover by Derek Steed.

As for when the rest of the world will get the book, I have no idea; Amazon still says the book will be out at the end of the month, although January 30 is absurd — who releases a book on a Sunday? the book appears to be available now! Now! Amazing!

News from the last few weeks has already made some of the information out of date, although most of it isn’t important. For instance, Joe Quesada isn’t editor in chief at Marvel any more; DC and Archie are about to withdraw from the Comics Code Authority; Wizard is heading for that old recycle bin in the sky. I’ll have to get cracking on a corrections page soon.

100 reviews!

Last Friday’s review, from what I can tell, was the 100th review post on Trade Talks. Yay.

By publishers, those reviews were about books from:

• 77 were Marvel (including three Conan collections reprinted by Dark Horse);
• 19 were DC (of which four were Vertigo and one was Wildstorm);
• 2 were Dark Horse (Usagi Yojimbo!);
• 1 was Eclipse; and
• 1 was First Second.

Well, I was right. It’s mostly Marvel.

The distribution of ratings favors the lower end, I’m pleased to report — more 1s than 5s,more 2s than 4s. In fact, more than a quarter of the books I reviewed got a 2. The mean of all the review is slightly above 2.5, though (2.7).

It’s taken me almost three years to get to 100 reviews. Hopefully, but this time next year, I’ll be passing 200.