About Comics
@aboutcomics.com
A might-but-tiny publishing line of interesting and classic comics, plus choice historic items (Negro Motorist Green Book!), since 1998.
NOT seeking submissions of new material, but open to reprint projects.
More at http://AboutComics.com
NOT seeking submissions of new material, but open to reprint projects.
More at http://AboutComics.com
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About Comics
@aboutcomics.com
· Jan 14
Hey there, Blueskyers! About Comics may not (well, is not) the most famous publisher going, but we put out some worthwhile stuff - not just new and (mostly) comics reprints, but comics how-to books and interesting historic items. Here's just a few examples.
I'm not sure what's going on with Little Folks -- for some reasons, Amazon is not shipping it, and it has disappeared from other bookstores. So I've set up with the printer so that you can order right from there, at a bit of a discount on the price to make up for the inconvenience.
Little Folks
This first-ever collection of 'Tack' Knight's Little Folks brings you all the dailies from 1930, the first year of the strip. Close to 300 strips about the neighborhood kids and their joys, obsessions...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I'm not sure what's going on with Little Folks -- for some reasons, Amazon is not shipping it, and it has disappeared from other bookstores. So I've set up with the printer so that you can order right from there, at a bit of a discount on the price to make up for the inconvenience.
JUST RELEASED: Little Folks: Dailies 1930, the first-ever collection of Tack Knight's kid strip, is now available through your favorite online US bookstore or as a special order at your local US shop.
www.amazon.com/dp/1949996921/
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
www.amazon.com/dp/1949996921/
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
JUST RELEASED: Little Folks: Dailies 1930, the first-ever collection of Tack Knight's kid strip, is now available through your favorite online US bookstore or as a special order at your local US shop.
www.amazon.com/dp/1949996921/
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
www.amazon.com/dp/1949996921/
bookshop.org/p/books/litt...
2025 was a fairly light publishing year for About Comics, but there's some books in there that I'm quite proud of, and even a fairly good seller in there! (And, ummm, others)
As for 2026....
As for 2026....
January 1, 2026 at 3:21 PM
2025 was a fairly light publishing year for About Comics, but there's some books in there that I'm quite proud of, and even a fairly good seller in there! (And, ummm, others)
As for 2026....
As for 2026....
Reposted by About Comics
Check this out for Coffee and Comics this A.M. Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip. Reprints this first four adventures in this spiffy little collection.
#comicssky
#comicssky
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Check this out for Coffee and Comics this A.M. Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip. Reprints this first four adventures in this spiffy little collection.
#comicssky
#comicssky
Put out this book over 20 years ago. Priced it an $19.95, a fair solid price. Put it through multiple printings, switched to POD, still sells in the three figures a year.
But printing prices have gone up. With inflation, it should be over $35.
So buy it now. I will be upping it (but not to $35.)
But printing prices have gone up. With inflation, it should be over $35.
So buy it now. I will be upping it (but not to $35.)
Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers|Paperback
Contains annotations, plots, interviews, and scripts by many of comics' hottest writers, including Kurt Busiek, Neil Gaiman, Greg Rucka, Kevin Smith, Jeff Smith, Marv Wolfman, and more.
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Put out this book over 20 years ago. Priced it an $19.95, a fair solid price. Put it through multiple printings, switched to POD, still sells in the three figures a year.
But printing prices have gone up. With inflation, it should be over $35.
So buy it now. I will be upping it (but not to $35.)
But printing prices have gone up. With inflation, it should be over $35.
So buy it now. I will be upping it (but not to $35.)
Reposted by About Comics
Top reads of 2025 chronologically (1/3): The Dalgoda Omnibus (🐶👨🚀🚀), ElfQuest- Siege at Blue Mountain (cover to #3 is 👌), The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Book 1 (can't believe it took me this long), Into The Unbeing Part Two (out? 🚫 through? ✅️) @aboutcomics.com @elfquest.bsky.social @zacthompson.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Top reads of 2025 chronologically (1/3): The Dalgoda Omnibus (🐶👨🚀🚀), ElfQuest- Siege at Blue Mountain (cover to #3 is 👌), The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Book 1 (can't believe it took me this long), Into The Unbeing Part Two (out? 🚫 through? ✅️) @aboutcomics.com @elfquest.bsky.social @zacthompson.bsky.social
I was tempted to put out a press release with my hostile bid of $10,000 for Warner Bros. (getting the gov't to back me by offering Trump 10% control), but honestly, I don't want all of WB. I don't even want all of DC Comics. I just want the rights to the out-of-print Big Book series.
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I was tempted to put out a press release with my hostile bid of $10,000 for Warner Bros. (getting the gov't to back me by offering Trump 10% control), but honestly, I don't want all of WB. I don't even want all of DC Comics. I just want the rights to the out-of-print Big Book series.
FOR YOUR GIFT-BUYING CONSIDERATION 🧵
For the crossword fan: CROSS WORD CRAZE, puzzles and articles from the crossword fad of the 1920s. www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
For the bicyclist: JUST A BOOK WITH ABOUT 410 DRAWINGS OF BICYCLES FROM NEWSPAPERS OF THE 1890s www.amazon.com/dp/1949996786
For the crossword fan: CROSS WORD CRAZE, puzzles and articles from the crossword fad of the 1920s. www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
For the bicyclist: JUST A BOOK WITH ABOUT 410 DRAWINGS OF BICYCLES FROM NEWSPAPERS OF THE 1890s www.amazon.com/dp/1949996786
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
FOR YOUR GIFT-BUYING CONSIDERATION 🧵
For the crossword fan: CROSS WORD CRAZE, puzzles and articles from the crossword fad of the 1920s. www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
For the bicyclist: JUST A BOOK WITH ABOUT 410 DRAWINGS OF BICYCLES FROM NEWSPAPERS OF THE 1890s www.amazon.com/dp/1949996786
For the crossword fan: CROSS WORD CRAZE, puzzles and articles from the crossword fad of the 1920s. www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
For the bicyclist: JUST A BOOK WITH ABOUT 410 DRAWINGS OF BICYCLES FROM NEWSPAPERS OF THE 1890s www.amazon.com/dp/1949996786
BLACK FRIDAY SALE on About Comics titles that aren't available through Amazon. 30% off on the great big lovely edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Comic Strip. The disappointing smaller edition is now out of print.)
Use code 025VIP30
Use code 025VIP30
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
After GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES became a best-selling novel but before any of the play adaptations reached Broadway or any of the film versions hit the big screen, Anita Loos brought her vapid, cunning...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
BLACK FRIDAY SALE on About Comics titles that aren't available through Amazon. 30% off on the great big lovely edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Comic Strip. The disappointing smaller edition is now out of print.)
Use code 025VIP30
Use code 025VIP30
Fellow publishers are taking financial damage from unpaid bills from library distributor Baker & Taylor, who are closing down.
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Fellow publishers are taking financial damage from unpaid bills from library distributor Baker & Taylor, who are closing down.
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
While other publishers are worried about the lack of attention that will arise from the apparent collapse of the Angouleme comics fest, About Comics is already basking in our Angouleme exposure.
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
While other publishers are worried about the lack of attention that will arise from the apparent collapse of the Angouleme comics fest, About Comics is already basking in our Angouleme exposure.
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
No, not at the comics fest. At the annual City of Angouleme Bridge Tournament earlier this month!
For those who prefer text press releases, the one for Cross Word Craze just went out. mailchi.mp/a85f8f67057b...
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For those who prefer text press releases, the one for Cross Word Craze just went out. mailchi.mp/a85f8f67057b...
CROSS WORD CRAZE: Classic Crossword Puzzles of the 1920s is now available. It's a puzzle book and history scrapbook in one! (The press release won't be out until the morning, but I can't resist sharing the first-ever About Comics book trailer.) Order at www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
Cross Word Craze book trailer
YouTube video by About Comics
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
CROSS WORD CRAZE: Classic Crossword Puzzles of the 1920s is now available. It's a puzzle book and history scrapbook in one! (The press release won't be out until the morning, but I can't resist sharing the first-ever About Comics book trailer.) Order at www.amazon.com/dp/1949996891
This first collection of the Drift Marlo strip ever is once again available! (I'd taken it off the market right after release because there was reason to believe I'd be able to make it even better with some new source, but that proved illusory.)
Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip
Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip [Evans, Phil, Cooke, Tom, Levitt, I. M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip
www.amazon.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This first collection of the Drift Marlo strip ever is once again available! (I'd taken it off the market right after release because there was reason to believe I'd be able to make it even better with some new source, but that proved illusory.)
Hey, that DRIFT MARLO book I announced earlier in the week?
I've taken it out of print -- right after publishing it, TWO possible sources of better scans popped up. So I'm going to see if I can improve this worthwhile book, and will bring it back when I do or if I don't. Already bought it? (1/2)
I've taken it out of print -- right after publishing it, TWO possible sources of better scans popped up. So I'm going to see if I can improve this worthwhile book, and will bring it back when I do or if I don't. Already bought it? (1/2)
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hey, that DRIFT MARLO book I announced earlier in the week?
I've taken it out of print -- right after publishing it, TWO possible sources of better scans popped up. So I'm going to see if I can improve this worthwhile book, and will bring it back when I do or if I don't. Already bought it? (1/2)
I've taken it out of print -- right after publishing it, TWO possible sources of better scans popped up. So I'm going to see if I can improve this worthwhile book, and will bring it back when I do or if I don't. Already bought it? (1/2)
Just released: DRIFT MARLO: The Space Race Comic Strip. This series about the security guy at an American space launch base launched in 1961, while the first astronauts were being launched into space, and is grounded in the real space program. 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Just released: DRIFT MARLO: The Space Race Comic Strip. This series about the security guy at an American space launch base launched in 1961, while the first astronauts were being launched into space, and is grounded in the real space program. 🧵
The latest release from About Comics comes from me being too eager to find a book for Pride. When I found this series of 1940s-'50s cartoons about two women who lived and traveled together, I thought I might've uncovered hidden mid-century lesbians in mainstream papers...
September 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The latest release from About Comics comes from me being too eager to find a book for Pride. When I found this series of 1940s-'50s cartoons about two women who lived and traveled together, I thought I might've uncovered hidden mid-century lesbians in mainstream papers...
About Comics may be ridiculously tiny and insignificant even within the context of comics, but at least it is owned by me rather than being a mere spare thumb of some bloated media conglomerate too big to stand up for itself.
At the moment, this feels the better place to be.
At the moment, this feels the better place to be.
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
About Comics may be ridiculously tiny and insignificant even within the context of comics, but at least it is owned by me rather than being a mere spare thumb of some bloated media conglomerate too big to stand up for itself.
At the moment, this feels the better place to be.
At the moment, this feels the better place to be.
Lucky for me, there aren't any About Comics completists out there that I know of, or I'd feel guilty about this book. It's not going to be available for sale. It has three-page samples from a couple dozen books, and I hope to give out the 2 dozen copies at the Souvenir trade show in Vegas next month
August 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Lucky for me, there aren't any About Comics completists out there that I know of, or I'd feel guilty about this book. It's not going to be available for sale. It has three-page samples from a couple dozen books, and I hope to give out the 2 dozen copies at the Souvenir trade show in Vegas next month
If you want to learn to publish comics the About Comics way, this is your chance!
I will only be at #SDCC on Friday. If anyone wants a meeting, let me know! And hey, come to this, where I'll be giving away all my (publishing) secrets!
July 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you want to learn to publish comics the About Comics way, this is your chance!
I just noticed that Amazon has Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, at 32% off cover. (And if you're wondering, no, this does not reduce the amount the amount that About Comics or the contributors make off of this.) Good deal!
Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers (Panel One Scripts by Top Comics Writers Tp (New Prtg))
Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers (Panel One Scripts by Top Comics Writers Tp (New Prtg)) [Kurt Busiek, Neil Gaiman, Nat Gertler, Dwayne McDuffie, Trina Robbins, Greg Rucka, Jeff Smith, Kevin Smith, Marv Wolfman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers (Panel One Scripts by Top Comics Writers Tp (New Prtg))
www.amazon.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I just noticed that Amazon has Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, at 32% off cover. (And if you're wondering, no, this does not reduce the amount the amount that About Comics or the contributors make off of this.) Good deal!
One thing about focusing on the museum and historic site market is that my books get to end up in interesting places. They've restored the old Bush Family Home (yes, those Bushes) to its 1950s glory... and offer these books displaying 1950s culture!
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One thing about focusing on the museum and historic site market is that my books get to end up in interesting places. They've restored the old Bush Family Home (yes, those Bushes) to its 1950s glory... and offer these books displaying 1950s culture!
If you've been amazed by the dozens of books of Catholic cartoons that About Comics has reissued, well, here's hte lowdown on how Catholic cartoon booklets became A Thing in the 1950s.
Comics Show & Tell episode 8: Cartoon Nunsplosion
YouTube video by About Comics
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
If you've been amazed by the dozens of books of Catholic cartoons that About Comics has reissued, well, here's hte lowdown on how Catholic cartoon booklets became A Thing in the 1950s.
Lulu is running a 15% discount with codeword FIREWORKS15, making it an excellent time to order the About Comics books offered through them -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Comics Strip, and Teddy Roosevelt: His Career in Cartoons.
Teddy Roosevelt
President and adventurer Theodore Roosevelt was a larger-than-life figure, mixing political wisdom and warrior pride with a great engagement with the natural world.
In 1910, after while Roosevelt was ...
www.lulu.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Lulu is running a 15% discount with codeword FIREWORKS15, making it an excellent time to order the About Comics books offered through them -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Comics Strip, and Teddy Roosevelt: His Career in Cartoons.
This does not impact About Comics directly at all. We had no books on consignment. Diamond's debt to use in under $3K. We'll be fine.
Others, not so much, I suspect.
Best wishes to all publishers and retailers struggling through this.
Others, not so much, I suspect.
Best wishes to all publishers and retailers struggling through this.
Diamond Comic Distributors Submits a Motion for the Procedures to Sell or other Disposition of Consigned Inventory. Publishers, pay attention to this! - Graphic Policy
The shitshow feels like it's becoming an even bigger one. This feels like a big deal.
graphicpolicy.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This does not impact About Comics directly at all. We had no books on consignment. Diamond's debt to use in under $3K. We'll be fine.
Others, not so much, I suspect.
Best wishes to all publishers and retailers struggling through this.
Others, not so much, I suspect.
Best wishes to all publishers and retailers struggling through this.