The SiP Omnibus Is Coming. Support Please!

There is no question that the ultimate Strangers In Paradise collection is the Omnibus Edition. To make that edition, I carefully went over every page and corrected art, spellings, errors, removed all censorship (words and images) and I rearranged some issues to put them in perfect chronological order. No other tpb or pocket edition got this final edit. The story reads perfectly and seamlessly. The Omnibus is my final version.

Five years ago 1250 hardcover edition box sets were offered and sold out immediately.

Now, finally, we can make an affordable, softcover version for everybody else. The Strangers In Pardise Softcover Omnibus box set includes two 1200 page books containing every page, every cover, every story every printed relating to SiP! The price for this 2400 page collection in a boxed slipcase? $100.

I can’t make it any more affordable than that, folks. That’s 4 cents a page for a labor of love I spent 14 years making.

Why has it taken 6 years since the end of SiP to make this softcover Omnibus? The answer is simple: it is very expensive to print and the printing must be paid before the book ships. This means, I have to pay for everything before the industry can help with purchases. The cost of printing the softcover Omnibus is shockingly high. But after 5 years Robyn and I have decided it will never happen if we don’t go out on a limb and take the risk. So we are printing the book at great personal risk, because we believe the fans and retailers will support us and buy the book once it is available. I’ve always believed in SiP. Now I’m putting my money where my mouth is. But I need your support. Without you, this will be my Hindenberg!

We will be taking pre-orders soon. As a thank you for each and every pre-order, I will include a new, exclusive print.

Note that I am also including a print for all retailer orders through Diamond, but that will be a different image, and the retailer can decide for themselves if they want to include the print in their book sale, or keep the print for themselves. That’s up to the retailer to decide. I suspect most of them will reward their customers by giving them the print with the purchase. Retailers love their loyal customers and so do I. I’ll show you both print images here when they’re drawn.

So, to recap…  YES! We’re finally printing the SiP Omnibus again! This is a huge deal for us!

It will be two softcover books, 2400 pages total, in a slipcase. Price will be $100.

The print run will be 5,000. We hope this is enough.

All pre-orders will also get an exclusive print.

I really need fan support on this. I have a small footprint on the net, your combined reach is so much more. Please help me spread the news around the comics world and internet and I will do my best to give you a book we’ll both be proud of.

Okay so, when? June. We’re planning on have this at San Diego. I just solicited for the Diamond April Previews for June product. We are official and can’t back out. Even if retailers/Diamond only order 10 copies, Robyn and I will still print, because we believe in our fans. It may be our swan song, but we’ll have a gorgeous book to read in debtor’s prison.

The Diamond ad: