I just saw an email from Easton Press advertising a beautiful leather bound version of Sandman. It says it's annotated by someone I haven't heard of (google says he's an attorney?). I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the area, but was wondering if you would mind commenting on this edition and what sort of analysis/insight the annotation provides?
Unrelated, but my 10 year old said to tell you Fortunetly the Milk is one of the best books ever, more grownups need to keep their imagination like you did, and you're one of the reasons she wants to be an author/illustrator when she grows up 💛
The Les Klinger annotated Sandman volumes are wonderful. As is his annotated American Gods.
I am an enormous fan of his annotated Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and H.P.Lovecraft volumes as well.
I found some pages online to help you judge how it’s annotated…
Oh I’ve got the American Gods one, my best friend got it for me for Christmas. It’s awesome, it’s got little notes all through it comparing the different editions of the book and explaining the significance of historical references and regional slang and all kinds of things
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I’m writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
“‘fandom’ is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture”
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.
I just finished a marathon reading of this series. I had first read Terry Moore’s work in Echo, and am very much enjoying his current work on Rachel Rising, but I had never read his award winning work on Strangers In Paradise. It was an amazing journey. The story is full of twists and turns, but never loses it focus, and it hits a lot of different emotional notes along the way. You can find it in several different formats, including some omnibus volumes which are pretty hefty, as well as trade paperbacks or digital releases. Well worth your comic spending dollars.
