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Twenty-one new Dave Sim pages for Diamond bankruptcy benefit comic, Consigned, on Kickstarter for Living The Line
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Dave Sim unveils 21 new pages for the Consigned benefit comic aiding Living The Line after Diamond’s bankruptcy.
Consigned is a 168-page Kickstarter anthology to help recover legal fees and lost revenue from Diamond Comics debts.
Contributors include Brandon Graham, Erik Kriek, and the late Bonten Taro, with work spanning memoir, diary, and horror comics.
The anthology’s covers are by Gustave Doré and Brandon Graham, with every Living The Line creator contributing work.
Living The Line is one of the many comic book publishers hit by Diamond Comic Distributors’ bankruptcy, and is publishing a Living The Line Legal Benefit Anthology, a 168-page comic, as a direct response to the situation. Living The Line states that it has spent $12,000 in legal fees fighting to recover its consignment inventory and is owed $24,000 in unpaid sales revenue from Diamond. They are part of the Ad Hoc Committee of Consignors alongside Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, UDON, Paizo, Ablaze, American Mythology, Action Lab, Zenescope, Battle Quest Comics, Green Ronin, Hermes Press, and Bleeding Cool’s own publisher, Avatar Press, and so have called the book, Consigned on Kickstarter.
The book features a fair few unexpected items, including Dave Sim contributing twenty-one unseen new pages of his Strange Death of Alex Raymond memoir, which he has been drawing over the last eight years. And given Dave Sim’s own conflicts witrh Diamond over the years it seems rather apposite. It also contains diary comics from Brandon Graham. As well as more from Erik Kriek, Jason Little, Miel Vandepitte, Carson Grubach, Ryan Holmberg, Matt Battaglia, EPHK, Janice Valleau, Garresh, Sean Michael Robinson, Okubo Taro, Mannele Richert, Charles Dana Gibson, James Harvey, Xurxo G Penalta, Clarence Dass, and Troy Nixey and Lonnie Nadler’s 12-page science fiction horror story The Emberer, and a 24-page horror story from the late Bonten Taro, whose book Face Meat, the fourth volume of their SMUDGE line of vintage horror manga, was delivered to Diamond on May 10th, 2024 and represents $20,000 of the money owed to Living The Line.
The cover is by Gustave Doré, courtesy of Dave Sim; the variant cover is by Brandon Graham, and Living The Line boasts that every living Living The Line cartoonist has contributed work, as well as a few who have passed on. They have currently raised $16,650 against a $6,669 goal from 351 backers, with twenty days to go.
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