Image Comics SAGA Hardcover Announced at San Diego Comic Con

Hot off the trails of winning two Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic Con for Image Comics SAGA, a big announcement was made from both creators Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. 

On Saturday, July 26 at San Diego Comic-Con, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples announced to a packed audience at the SAGA panel the November release of SAGA: BOOK ONE, the first in a series of deluxe hardcover volumes of their award-winning and beloved Image Comics series. Collecting the first three paperback volumes of SAGA, the 500-page-plus BOOK ONE will feature brand-new cover art by Staples. It will be released on November 25, 2014.

As Vaughan and Staples revealed in their Comic-Con panel, the cover of each hardcover edition will feature the series’ main character, Hazel. BOOK ONE’s cover depicts Hazel breastfeeding as an infant.

"Saga is the story of Hazel, and each hardcover edition will feature her at a different stage of life in a new cover from co-creator Fiona Staples,” said writer Vaughan. “I have no idea how Staples will top this first one, which perfectly captures our heroine's first few months in the universe. But we're even more proud of what's under the cover, 500 pages of story and never-before-seen extras, including a weirdly detailed creator roundtable about how the team makes a complete issue of our comic, from daydreaming to shipping."

Vaughan’s and Staples’ announcement came the day after they received three Eisner Awards at the annual ceremony held during Comic-Con. SAGA received a Best Continuing Series Eisner, Vaughan received Best Writer, and Staples was awarded Best Painter/Multimedia Artist.

Telling the story of a family escaping an interplanetary war, SAGA is an ongoing comic book series, released monthly by Image Comics. It has won a Hugo Award, a British Fantasy Award, and multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. All three volumes of SAGA have reached number one on the New York Times best sellers list, and volume one has been in the top ten for more than seventy weeks. SAGA's next issue, #22, will be in comic book stores on August 27. Three trade paperback collections are now available, and SAGA: VOLUME 4 will be in stores in December.

SAGA BOOK ONE Deluxe Hardcover by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

•                ISBN 978-1-63215-078-3

•                Diamond Comic order code MAR148090

•                504 pages, $49.99

•                In stores November 25

•                Collects issues #1-18 of SAGA

•                Rated Mature

Harvest, Revival, and Saga All Get New Printings from Image Comics

The debut issue of HARVEST by A.J. Lieberman (COWBOY NINJA VIKING, TERM LIFE) and Colin Lorimer, a new mini-series from Image Comics/Shadowline depicting the underworld of the illegal organ market, has sold out and willbe reprinted. The second printing of HARVEST #1 (JUL128128) will be in stores on September 19.

Originally released on August 1, HARVEST #1 follows disgraced surgeon Benjamin Dane as he falls under the power of the criminal syndicate that runs the organ black market and then decides to fight his way out — by taking back one organ at a time.

HARVEST #2 will be in stores on September 5.

REVIVAL, the new "rural noir" Image Comics series by Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH) and Mike Norton (Battlepug), has the second issue has sold out at the distribution level the week of its release. A second printing (JUL128006) will be in stores on September 19.

REVIVAL #1 also sold out of its first and second printings, and a third printing (JUL128088) has also been scheduled to be in stores on September 19, the same day as REVIVAL #3.

Called "an unexpected windfall that evokes an uncomfortable feeling, piques interest and taunts curiosity" by Comic Book Resources, REVIVAL explores what happens in a small Wisconsin town after the dead rise — not to devour the living, but to simply return to their lives.

The sixth issue of SAGA closes the runaway bestseller's first arc on a strong note, as it has sold out and willreceive a second printing. Every issue of the science fiction/fantasy epic by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples hassold out and received at least one reprint; SAGA #1 is on its fifth printing.

SAGA #6's second printing(JUL128120) is available for pre-order now and will be in stores on September 12. The series' first trade paperback (AUG120491), collecting the first six issues, will be in stores on October 10.

Image Comics Saga #6 First Look

Image Comics Saga #6 will be in stores tomorrow, Wednesday, August 15th. Saga is an amazing series and Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples have created something special. 

The epic hit series continues, as Alana and her baby finally reach the legendary Rocketship Forest, where everything changes forever.

Preview Pages in Saga #6

Saga #3 Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek into Saga #3, which will be in stores tomorrow, May 16th. We love this series and it should be no surprise being written by Brian K.Vaughan and the amazing art by Fiona Staples. 

BKV's and FIONA STAPLES' controversial epic continues! Stranded on a mystical alien world, new parents Marko and Alana encounter their greatest fear. 

Preview Pages in Saga #3

  Saga #3

Story by: Brian K. Vaughan

Art by: Fiona Staples

Price: $2.99