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Wendel
All Together
Q Who is the publisher?
A
Olmstead Press, which used to be an LPC Group imprint and is now a Moyer Bell imprint. It's a long story.
Q Will I find it in my neighborhood bookstore?
A
It depends on whether your neighborhood bookstore is on the ball. A lot aren't, so I suggest you Google the title and patronize an online retailer — or even me! ("Real" retailers will give you a better price, though.)
Q How many pages?
A
It's a 288-page softcover book.
Q That's how many Wendel episodes?
A
There are 129 of 'em.
Q Does it include all of the episodes ever published?
A
Yes. And more.
Q Could you elaborate? I need hype here!
A
O.k. Here's what's included:

All of the episodes ever published in
The Advocate. These will include . . .

  • 49 episodes from the first Wendel book (1985, Gay Presses of New York), none of which have been available to readers for fifteen years now, except for the 18 early episodes that will be archived here on this web site for (only) a few more months.
  • All of the episodes from Wendel On The Rebound (1989, St. Martin's Press), none of which have been available since that collection went out of print a decade ago.
  • The complete "Romance of Sterno and Duncan" that was reprinted in the 1990 Kitchen Sink Comic Book Wendel Comix.
  • Four Advocate episodes that were not reprinted in any of the earlier collections.
In addition, you'll find . . .
  • Comics strips from other publications
    (The Village Voice and Gay Comics) in which Wendel puts in an appearance.
  • The 2000 jam strip in which Wendel interviews Ethan, the title character of Eric Orner's The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.
  • A scrapbook of cameo appearances by Wendel in illustrations from Out/Look, Amazing Heroes, and other out-of-the-way venues.
  • My 8-page Introduction in which I discuss how drawing Wendel differed from drawing Stuck Rubber Baby and why Wendel and his friends spent so much time waving picket signs.
Q How much does it cost?
A
The cover price is $17.95.
Q Did you say I can buy a copy from you?
A
Hmm. Well, let me put it this way . . .

The simplest and cheapest way for you to buy a copy is to get it from your neighbohood bricks-and-mortar bookstore, a mail-order retailer, or online.

In other words, I'm a one-person operation and taking packages to the post office eats up time that could otherwise be spent drawing.

However . . .

I'm well aware that some people really like books with the authors' signatures on them, and if you've read this far down the page, it's just possible that you're one of those. If that's the case and you don't mind spending a little extra for my autograph and my trouble, click here.
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