Evoking feelings of
experiencing the best of both pop comics and pop culture, PHONOGRAM
has struck a chord with retailers and fans alike. Now, both PHONOGRAM
#1 and PHONOGRAM #2 have sold out at Diamond!
With high demand and heaps of critical praise, Image Comics is going
back to press on both of the issues. Each issue will feature the
same cover as the original with some slight color changes, otherwise
no changes will be made to the content except for an indicator in
the indicia that the books are Second Printings.
"When Image told us we’d sold out, we were horrified," says writer
Kieron Gillen. "We put our Fugazi albums loudly on repeat and started
to prepare a statement that, as punky ex-fanzine kids, we will NEVER
sell out. Eventually Image managed to explain that they weren’t
casting dispersions at our unimpeachable artistic integrity, but
they’d just ran out of copies to sell."
"In which case we thought we better print some more," adds artist
Jamie McKelvie.
The new printings of PHONOGRAM #1 and PHONOGRAM #2 are scheduled to
be in stores in late October.
PHONOGRAM traces the misadventures of Phonomancer
David Kohl as he hunts for whoever is interfering with his old
patron, the long-dead Goddess of Britpop, Britannia. If he fails,
history itself will be rewritten - with him entirely out of it.
"Phonogram’s the comic we’ve wanted to create since literally the
first moment McKelvie and I met," says Gillen, "It was something we
were compelled to do. For this labour of love - by two unknowns -
about a mid-nineties pop-cult to not just find an audience, but a
sizeable and voracious one is somewhat overwhelming. And pleasing.
Enormously pleasing."
"The only thing that makes me happier than Phonogram selling out,"
says Jamie McKelvie, "is having more copies printed so even more
people can read it." |