DHC To Expand Its Publication of Print Compilations Of Popular Webcomics

I guess this means we can all stop guessing the publisher with whom Achewood creator Chris Onstad is going to be doing his remarkable The Great Outdoor Fight, as cryptically announced in an article we linked to here a while back. In what I'd say was the publishing news of the WonderCon convention just past, Dark Horse Comics announced an approximately 100 percent expansion of their interest in various webcomics properties. According to Comic Book Resources, DHC will add books from Achewood, Keith Knight's The K Chronicles and David Malki's Wondermark to its line. This builds on past successes the company's had with Megatokyo, Penny Arcade and The Perry Bible Fellowship -- the last of which seemed to crush sales-wise, immediately selling out a first printing in what I recall was the late 20,000s.

Those six books together seems like it could make its own start-up line, so I can't imagine them not being a boon to DHC's bottom line over time -- if they're handled well, of course. It also seems to me a significant endorsement of the on-line comics/print trade (and sometimes comics) publishing strategy.
 
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