SAGA gets commuter-sized in new 6X9 format

Saga — the long-running sci-fi/household drama collection by Brian Ok. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, and Fonografiks — is getting smaller, kind of.

It’s truly simply the most recent comedian to get a new print version that clocks in at 6X9, making it simpler to haul round for commutes or seashore days or wherever else you would possibly wish to benefit from the long-running collection. This new format will hit in September, that includes brand-new cowl artwork by Staples.

The guide may even nonetheless publish collections in the standard American comics measurement as properly, and no modifications shall be made to the month-to-month comedian (which Vaughan just lately introduced in his Exploding Giraffe publication shall be returning with new points this summer season).

This is large information, in that Saga is a bonafied smash-hit comedian, having bought greater than 10 million copies so far throughout codecs. It’s been translated into 20 languages, and has develop into maybe the American comedian one is almost definitely to seek out on stylish indie bookstore endcaps. To say nothing of the rewards it has netted throughout its run.

It’s additionally not the primary well-known comedian to publish in this measurement format.

In November, DC Comics introduced a new compact comics graphic novel line, which is about to place a few of its most well-known bookstore-sellers into the smaller format as properly, from Watchmen to All-Star Superman to Court of Owls. There was no information about how a lot the Saga compact will retail for (and if there was, apologies, I missed it), however the DC line is slated to go for $9.99 when it hits in June.

This is all a part of an effort to make these books extra accessible, placing them presumably on endcaps in airports or practice stations so people can seize them simply and get hooked on the medium.

In that regard, Saga is an ideal selection. Not to get too self-indulgent, however I had lapsed from comics for a bit myself, earlier than the standard-sized first commerce assortment of Saga reeled me again in from an endcap at my native library.

Hey, possibly these new compact editions will do the identical for another person on the market!

You can discover Staples’ new cowl artwork beneath…