Gemstone stuff

[Gary Leach]

Dean:
							
> Perhaps Gary could tell us if digests have taken the
> place of TPBs in Gemstone's plans, or if TPBs are still a big part of
> this new wave of Disney comics in the US?

I've read comments on this in the subsequent DCML digest (that word!), 
and don't have much to add except that the trade paperback, in U.S. 
comics practice, is either a collection of previously published 
chapters of a miniseries, or of a story arc within an ongoing series, 
or a wholly original work that goes longer than 64 pages (preferably 
128 pages or more). Moreover, the comics tpb is usually at the same 
trim size (height and width) as the standard U.S. comic book (standard 
newsstand and prestige formats have virtually the same trim sizes), 
particularly if they are collections.

But these are hardly hard and fast rules. And new terms for formats are 
being coined all the time, often by companies looking for some kind of 
"exclusivity" or "pride of place" on a specific trim size/page count, 
so the confusion is only on the increase.

Gary