April 9, 2015
Bundled Extra: Parker Series Pushed Back To 2016
During a spotlight panel at WonderCon 2015, the cartoonist Darwyn Cooke said that his
Parker series would not return in 2015 as promised at one point, but that 2016 was much more likely. How many he'll still do is also in question, although I believe that's been in a flux for a little while. He plans to end his involvement with the series with an adaptation of 1974's
Butcher's Moon. IDW Editor Scott Dunbier confirmed to
CR the slight adjustment in scheduling.
While certainly this isn't the first comic that's been delayed past initial projection, I thought Cooke's reasoning at the panel was interesting. He basically states that the first four books may have come out too quickly, diminishing the joy that one might feel at a new book in the series coming out because of the easy continuity of familiarity. I think there's something to that, and I think that may be exacerbated by the overall size of the comics market -- it seems at times that most of the comics markets can be directed to a half-dozen to a dozen books a year much more easily than function as something that will reliably throw its weight behind a slew of regular performers. I could be very wrong, and I certainly have nothing more than a hunch or series of hunches to go on. It's probably a mix of things.
I might suggest even more strongly that we're all still a bit unclear as to how that market has changed, and that things are very much in flux. Just in the duration of time since the
Parker book have come out you've seen publishers that were still just beginning to investigate a bookstore model, which means in the years since they've not only done that but likely taken first steps towards developing a festival-circuit sales model and a digital sales model. It should be interesting to see if a lot of the work we have out now will have a second life whenever things settle into a more dependable routine.
I look forward to the next
Parker adaptation, whenever we get one.
posted 5:35 pm PST |
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