A UK edition of Tillie Walden’s Spinning is now on Kickstarter. Charles Soule and Ryan Browne have revealed their next collaboration, The Lucky Devils.
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Tillie Walden’s Spinning comes to Kickstarter.
Charles Soule and Ryan Browne reveal their new book, The Lucky Devils.
This is Comic Book Club News for September 2, 2024.
Tillie Walden’s Spinning Comes To Kickstarter:
A UK edition of Tillie Walden’s Spinning is now on Kickstarter. And it’s just under its goal with less than two weeks to go.
The Eisner award-winning graphic novel was first released in 2017 by First Second and received great acclaim. The new edition comes from Avery Hill Publishing and per SKTCHD, has an “all-new cover design and luxurious hardback binding!”
If you missed it the first time around, the autobiographical graphic novel is about Tille Walden, of course, her time as a competitive figure skater, and how meeting her first girlfriend changed her life… And made her interested in creating art.
Naturally, the rest is history, as Walden has created the super-successful Clementine series for Skybound, among other books. But if you’ve never read the book, this is a great way to pick it up. You can also get signed editions of the graphic novel, as well as ones with bookplates. And because this is the UK edition, in the famous scene where Walden is eating cookies in the elevator, she’s now eating biscuits in the lift! Just kidding.
The Kickstarter is open now until Friday, September 13.
Charles Soule And Ryan Browne Reveal New Book, Lucky Devils:
Charles Soule and Ryan Browne have officially revealed their next book at this weekend’s DragonCon. That book? The Lucky Devils.
The pair have collaborated on numerous projects before, but the most successful by far was Eight Billion Genies. The best-selling Image Comics book is being adapted into a movie for Amazon by Seth Rogen. And now from little genies to lucky devils.
So what is Lucky Devils about? Well, guess what: this is an audio podcast, so I can turn it over to Charles Soule, who told Comic Book Club all about the general concept — without revealing the title — back at TerrifiCon in Connecticut.
“We’re following up one of the biggest successes of either of our careers, and certainly in creator own comics. Eight Billion Genies was the book we did before this. The one that everybody just saw, and it is about everyone on Earth getting a genie in one wish at the same time, and the chaos that immediately expands across the planet and how it’s followed for 800 years. Sort of we follow that story for 800 years as the world changes drastically.
“And the new book is designed to… You’ll get it. We have kind of a theme that we’re starting to follow. But this takes that idea and flips it on its head in some really interesting ways, and answers questions about, I would say good and evil and morality that the first one alluded to. But the first book, Eight Billion Genies, was very much about desire. This book is about good and evil and how people become good or evil, and how they define those things within themselves, because in the hoary cliche, nobody thinks they’re the bad guy that will really look at that question pretty closely.
“And when is the moment when you really have to look yourself in the eye and say, ‘Well, you know what? I guess I am a bad guy.’ It’s basically a comic book adaptation of that Hitler’s bunker meme that goes around for basically everything. ‘Wait a minute, are we the baddies?’ And so I think it’s we’re both really, really excited about it. There’s really interesting things and cool things that the book does, interesting things that we’re doing with it to promote it and get the word out about it.”
So there you go! Straight from the devil’s mouth himself. Per a post on X (formerly Twitter), The Lucky Devils will hit stores from Image Comics in January 2025.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And it’s a national holiday today in America, so I’m keeping this one short! Normal length episode tomorrow!
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