RASL Preview
Hello Everyone!
Vijaya here. For the many of you who did not make it to San Diego, below is an online copy of the 6-page RASL Preview. Click on the thumbnails below for a larger image.
If you like what you see, you can order RASL #1 from your favorite comic shop or from this month's Diamond Previews. RASL#1 will ship in February 2008. it will be a 32 page standard size comic (6 5/8" x 10 7/8"), not the oversized format of the RASL preview.
Season's Greetings!
vijaya
Whoa! Ok, you got me. I must know what’s going on! This looks great. Thanks for the preview.
Comment by Ev — December 11, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
Can’t wait! The oversized preview book was such a treat. Wasn’t part of the original idea possibly to make the book oversized as well? I guess that went by the wayside? Still can’t wait, and I’m stoked about the Variant Cover! As a collector, however, I find variant covers generally to be too costly for the wallet! They’re great every once in a while for a special issue, especially a #1, but when some books are having a variant cover for every issue, it gets to be too much. OK, way off topic now… can’t wait for what’s coming up in 2008!
Comment by Brandon — December 12, 2007 @ 12:09 am
Wow, weird seeing your work and no Fone in it. Hahaha, how many times you hear that? Looking great but is the whole book going to be in horizontal panels? Also, is the book going go to be in black and white or color? You might not hear this that often but I’m hoping black and white. Everyone is using color and you lose the detial of the inker when you do it in color and you produce some gorgeous brush work! Can’t wait to pick it up, and glad to hear it’s longer then the standerd 24 pages and hoping you release it in 11 by 17 one day. I publish a small comic and I love looking at orignals and at that size you can see more. Well keep up the great work and I’ll keep reading it.
Josh
Comment by Josh Greathouse — December 12, 2007 @ 2:13 am
Sweet… this look so cool. Very original. Thanks!
Comment by Marcus — December 12, 2007 @ 8:57 am
We did plan on publishing in oversized format, but we some resistance from retailers because of the shelf space it would require. So we are back to traditional comic book size. If there is a demand for it, we will to publish a limited edition oversized book. It really looks cool big! RASL will be published in b&w but we do plan to publish a compilation edition in color – but that will be a few years down the road.
-v
Comment by vijaya iyer — December 12, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
[...] December 12, 2007 by vjensen For those many of us who weren’t able to pick up a copy of the special oversized preview copy for Jeff Smith’s new series RASL, Smith has posted the six preview pages on his web site. [...]
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Thanks for the info & update Vijaya! I am really excited that RASL is in black and white. Of course I will love to see it in colour later down the road too, but Jeff’s art is so powerful in B&W. I am not too disappointed about the regular size. After all, they don’t make bags and backing boards that large! My wallet will also thank me. But it sure does look cool big. Maybe a collection or something could be oversized later on. Lastly I’m excited that it is 32 pages. Something with a bit more meat than the standard 24!
Comment by Brandon — December 13, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
Thank you for the link and and info it is very mmuch appreciated. It woudl be cool to see this in an over sized edition but I udnerstand the self space issue. Oh well I’m used to waiting for the cool stuff to coem out so I guess we’ll all have to wait and see if the larger vertion is a go in a few years. Till then i’ll settl e for standard comic size, it’ll be easier to hold anyway lol. Thanks again for posting the info.
Comment by Jeanette — December 13, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
[...] Jeff Smith stellt für diejenigen, welche nicht zur SDCC2007 kommen konnten die sechseitige RASL-Preview online. [...]
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Pingback by RASL « Ã…ke i exil — December 16, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Glad that it would be on traditional comic book sized and not over-sized. It might be difficult to carry in the stores otherwise which translates to not many would carry the book or at least not as many copies.
Comment by Myron Tay — December 18, 2007 @ 2:45 am
[...] If you are curious to check out a preview, copies of the six pages Smith made available at Comicon have been posted on his site here. Looking forward to February! [...]
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Ah, yes! I’d subscribed through a good comic shop already, but this just proves I was right to do so! Can’t wait!
Comment by Adam — December 21, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
[...] In March, two of comics’ most renowned independent creators will return with all new comic book series. Jeff Smith, best known for the all-ages fantasy BONE, returns with the teen and up tale RASL, the tale of a dimension-hopping art thief who steals alternate world treasures for the super-rich. And Terry Moore, Texas creator of slice-of-life series STRANGERS IN PARADISE, launches his first new comic in years with ECHO, about a silver rain that falls and gives a young woman strange abilities and an even stranger life. Five page preview of ECHO here. 6 page preview of RASL here. [...]
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