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Anarchy for the Masses (Disinfo version)

 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
18:42 / 21.01.03
Disinformation has me helping them market their new, updated version of ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES, the Cliff Notes to the Invisibles. So, using Barbelith as my test market, I was wondering if anybody has any ideas as to where it should be marketed or how the book should be hyped....
 
 
some guy
19:13 / 21.01.03
What's different in the new edition?
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
22:40 / 21.01.03
Here is a draft of the press release:

US Pub Date: April 2003
UK Pub Date: February 2003
Price: $19.95 /£14.99
A Trade Paperback Original from The Disinformation Company

Contact: Ina Howard ina@disinfo.com + 1-212-691-1605



ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES
THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO THE INVISIBLES

By Patrick Neighly & Kereth Cowe-Spigai

Revised and Updated with New Original Art and Interviews for this Disinformation Edition


“ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES is a stunning achievement. Just fabulous, both a fitting exegesis and tribute to the series.”
–Steven Grant, Whisper

“Grant Morrison is this generation’s William Burroughs. Somewhere the Wild Boys are smiling.”
–Richard Metzger, Disinformation

“ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES dares to romp with the living, knob-encrusted monster that is the six-year-long INVISIBLES experiment. If, as intended, the series is a stained paper section through the body of some vast, soft intricate entity made of time, then ANARCHY is an historic first probe, a plucky Voyager bringing back and making sense of the many dripping, weird-angled splinters and fully authorized facets found deep in the hide and guts of my captive mega-terrestrial.”
–Grant Morrison


Grant Morrison’s prophetic, epoch-making graphic novel The Invisibles made as important a contribution to the counterculture of the 1990s and 2000s as Naked Lunch and On the Road did for the 1950s and 60s. Like those works, The Invisibles had a dedicated cult following and is only now beginning to be recognized in the mainstream.

Just as The Invisibles is a comprehensive guide to life in the 21st century, Patrick Neighly and Kereth Cowe-Spigai’s ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES is a comprehensive guide to The Invisibles (similar to The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender): it includes not only full annotation to every issue, and critical analyses, but also exclusive, extensive interviews with:

 
 
LDones
03:33 / 22.01.03
!

What prompted this new edition? And where can I order the reasy thing since it's likely my local shop won't even hear of the thing - will we be able to order from disinfo.com?
 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
06:58 / 22.01.03
For thiose like me, that bought the original edition - There should be a supplement containing the new material from this edition, perhaps packaged with some Gideon Stargrave reprints
:)

Dan Fish
Comics@
www.fish1000.freeserve.co.uk
 
 
FinderWolf
13:57 / 22.01.03
>> Order from Diamond Comics (Previews Order # FEB03 2367), Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Last Gasp, AK Press, Book People and our main distributors:

Seems like it's listed in PREVIEWS, so maybe comic shops will indeed carry it. I'd like to get it!

Boy In A, that press release looks terrific to me! Nice work. ("Nice and smooth")
 
 
some guy
14:08 / 22.01.03
Frank Quitely did the cover?!
 
 
sleazenation
14:30 / 22.01.03
Looks like this will include all the artwork originally comissioned for the first edition but which DC objected to last time round...
 
 
louisemichel
15:05 / 22.01.03
Cool.
I already have the original edition, but cool nevertheless.
I'll buy it.
God, I'm a nerd.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
15:50 / 22.01.03
This might be worth owning. And hopefully slightly easier to get hold of in the UK than the original (gave up asking at the comic shop in the end).
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
21:20 / 22.01.03
Since I work for Disinfo and all now, I have an advance copy and it's about 20 times cooler than the original (I too was suckered into buying the first edition). The Quitely cover is IMHO the best version of the Invisibles ever, done in the style of the very last issue. Tons of typos have been fixed and the new art rules. You will indeed be able to order it from Disinfo as well.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:39 / 23.01.03
Is the new cover available online anywhere yet?
 
 
Analogues On
10:33 / 23.01.03
This is the preview page from the original publisher's site.
However you would need an electron microscope to actually see any detail on there.
 
 
FinderWolf
01:47 / 31.01.03
Just to let you know, BoyInA, I've been talking this up at Jim Hanley's Comics and Midtown Comics in NYC. Really looking forward to this, esp. since I didn't get the first version!
 
 
Simplist
17:13 / 31.01.03
Hm, in retrospect I guess I'm glad I was so broke when the first one came out. Very much looking forward to this.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:02 / 03.04.03
It's out in the US!!! Just got it in NYC yesterday (it hit the shelves in NYC yesterday, probably in the entire US too). Pretty cool stuff -- anyone else get this?

The cover, though Quitely, is kinda shite though.
 
 
malpractice
21:35 / 03.04.03
Funnily enough, I only just ordered from Amazon.co.uk last week. I live in NZ and I won't receive it until next week, I suppose. I didn't realise there was a 2nd edition until now, so yeah - good timing on my part, I reckon.
 
 
malpractice
21:39 / 03.04.03
And there's a shot of the cover here, at reliable old Amazon.
 
 
LVX23
21:54 / 03.04.03
Boy, I bought mine from Scamazon, but have you talked to our local SC comic shops? Comicopolis, Atlantis, etc..? Maybe give a ring to some of the greater Bay Area stores as well.

Probably wise to also hit any other Invisibles-related forums and sites in case they're not already aware.

BTW, GM will be speaking at the next Comicon in San Diego this July.

Cheers!

C23