B. Clay Moore talks format at The Engine

Over at The Engine, Hawaiian Dick writer B. Clay Moore discusses the format of a new book he'll be doing in 2006:

Basically, another writer and I have decided to team up to produce a book featuring two separate stories, both set in the same year, but otherwise unrelated (except, I suppose, loosely by genre). The idea here is that each of us will produce one twelve-page chunk of story per issue, for a total of eight issues. By the time we've finished the initial eight-issue run, we'll each have accumulated the equivalent of a complete "normal" sized four-issue mini-series. (We'll each have 96 pages of story)

The idea is not to do a flip-book, but to wrap both stories in covers that feature characters from each, even if their paths never cross in the book. And they won't. The plan right now is to have my HAWAIIAN DICK cohort Steven Griffin handle the covers. So the wrapper will be pretty, anyway.

Black and white, $2.95 (or $2.99, I dunno), 24 pages of story per issue. Eight total issues, with the distinct possibility of a second "year" to follow in another eight issue series. We'll have extra pages to play with, and will try to give what we do with those pages some careful though.

There's always an interesting comic-related discussion going on at The Engine; go check it out.