FFF Results Post #452—Formats For The Ages

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Rank From One To Five Your Five Most Preferred Formats In Which To Read Comics, With One Being The Most Preferred." This is how they responded.

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Dave Knott

1. Album-size bandes dessinées (Tintin, Lapinot)
2. Marvel Treasury Editions (Dr. Strange Treasury Edition)
3. Medium-size manga (Dorohedoro, Phoenix, 20th Century Boys)
4. Modern alt-comix magazines (The Ignatz line, Crickets)
5. Large black-and-white archival volumes (Complete EC Library)

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Slightly Smaller Than Standard-Sized Alt-Comic Format (Black Eye Comics)
2. Newspapers As Comics (Smoke Signal)
3. Marvel's 1970s Giant-Size Format (Giant-Size Avengers #1)
4. Artist's Editions (David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil Born Again: Artist's Edition)
5. Standard 1970s/1980s Black And White Alt-Comics Magazine (Elfquest, Love & Rockets Vol. 1) (pictured)

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Michael Grabowski

1. Standard comic-sized single-creator regularly-published anthology (Bitchy Bits, Sergio Aragones' Funnies)
2. Sunday newspaper comics section, late 1970s (San Francisco Chronicle)
3. Daily newspaper comics section, 1982-1989 (San Francisco Chronicle)
4. Monthly magazine-sized anthology of syndicated strips & editorial cartoons (Comic Relief)
5. Standard four-color newstand comic, 1970s (Marvel, DC, Archie, Harvey, Charlton)

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Katherine Collins

1) The original comics format: huge full-size newspaper page (in colour of course)
2) Any other very "oversized" format, like 14x18 or something
3) Beautifully-printed European-style "albums"
4) Old-fashioned comic books, now called floppies
5) Web or any Digital comics, preferably with moving parts and effects

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Oliver Ristau

1. Black-and-white comics-magazine anthologies published by Marvel in the 1980s (Savage Tales, Bizarre Adventures)
2. Bigger than standard-sized Image books but smaller than most other anthology magazines (Island)
3. Pocket-sized Fumetti from Italy (Oltretomba)
4. Tabloid-sized comics (Comics section from the Panorama, Adapt)
5. Over-sized one shots (Destroy, Masterplasty)

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Charlie Ryan

1. 1971-1973 DC 100 Page Super Spectaculars (the no ads issues with wrap-around covers; World's Greatest Super-Heroes, etc.)
2. Larger-than-standard trim size color comics, thick card stock covers (Eric Larson's Next Issue Project titles)
3. Tabloid Treasury Editions (DC's Limited Collectors' Edition, Marvel Treasury Editions, Giant-Size Kung Fu Bible Stories)
4. 8.5" x 11" magazine size graphic albums (Marvel Graphic Albums, DC Science Fiction Graphic Novels, Asterix, Blueberry)
5. 6" x 9" trade paperback black and white graphic novels (Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations, March, Maus)


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Buzz Dixon

1. Digitally on my desktop (GoComics.com)
2. Standard Size Graphic Novels (Sin City)
3. American-style Format Manga Collections (Yotsuba&!)
4. Hard Cover Album Size Collections (Russ Cochran's EC collections)
5. Public Toilet Stalls (pictured)

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Ken Eppstein

1. Standard Size Comic/Floppy (Preferably without having to mess with a bag/board)
2. 4x6 Paperback Books (Like the old Mad collections)
3. As part of a Zine (Roctober, Razorcake, MRR, et. al.)
4. Hard cover book collection with dust jacket (Superman from 30s to the 70s)
5. Big soft cover collections of B&W reprints (Marvel Essential Volumes)

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Michael Dooley

1. Broadsheet format color comics sections in the five-papers-every-Sunday 1950s (Gordo, Smokey Stover, etc., etc.)
2. Variable formatted editions, each appropriately customized to unify form with content (Acme Novelties)
3. Required-on-the-floor-reading hardcover format (Society is Nix)
4. Saddle-stitched, 1980s-era oversized format with quality production and insets (Raw volume 1)
5. Lightweight and palm-of-the-hand flippable format (Byron Preiss's Schlomo Raven)

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