Strip Collection News: Adams, Crane

* Editor & Publisher collects details about the forthcoming Dilbert collection, including its physical size, the parameters of the project in a publishing sense and its CD and on-line update components. It sounds like a worthy project, and I think it reflects some thinking on the publisher's part after what I take to be the Far Side collection exceeding expectations and the Calvin and Hobbes collection doing extremely well but not exponentially better than the Far Side effort: there needs in these projects to be a mix of casual readers and super-hardcore fans. No word on whether or not Andrews McMeel will provide counseling to those of us freaked out this all takes place on Dilbert's 20th anniversary.

* I totally missed this, but Classic Comics Press of Dondi and Our Stage collection fame will apparently take on the odd man out in the recent great strips re-publication bonanza: Roy Crane's vigorous and occasionally exquisite Wash Tubbs. I think Crane's work is important because 1) it can be freakishly gorgeous and entertaining, and 2) it reflects a fading element of American self-image in the period directly preceding the Second World War where the US is kind of seen as a vigorous young man stomping around a much bigger world that half-appreciates it, half-fails to care. Mostly, though, I just like looking at the damn thing, and I'm happy for any chance other people will get to do the same. At one point in my life I was obsessing on Crane to the extent that I dreamed I was a television producer for a Hercules: The Legendary Journeys-type Wash Tubbs syndicated TV show starring Michael J. Fox and Fred Ward.
 
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