Unlike the usual graphic novels, this project features printing of the original artworks in a way to mimic the experience of a comic book artist viewing comic art. Artist's Edition is designed to print exactly the same dimension as the artwork papers that comic book artists usually use in their illustrations and also retaining the editorial notes and printing crop marks seen on the papers. All the artworks were originally colored, Artist's Edition specifically prints in black and white palette to show the details of pasteovers, zip-a-tone technique, and blue pencils. Even though the project requires scanning of the original artworks, Dunbier stated that not all the pieces can be assembled together for some titles, so a "not scanned from original art" line is included in some pages to represent IDW isn't able to acquire the artworks.
According to Dunbier, the idea of Artist's Edition drew inspiration from the Batman Collected book. One of the pages in the book features an original Batman work by Neal Adams; designer Chip Kidd had the idea of photographing the work and then printed in black and white palette.
List of Artist's Edition titles
Some titles exclusively receive limited edition; available only via either pre-ordering or purchasing from IDW's official website. This version includes a variant design of the front cover and a personal signature of the title's comic book artist printed in an interior page. The trade paperback known as Artisan Edition would be made available later on if a title is eventually out of stock. This version, however, is scaled down to the standard size of a graphic novel despite retaining the same content as the regular version.
Stories from MAD #1-2, #4-5, #7-14, #16-18 illustrated by: Wally Wood ("Gookum!", "Smilin' Melvin!", "Bat Boy and Rubin!", "Little Orphan Melvin!", "Flesh Garden!", "3-Dimensions!", "Prince Violent!" and "Movie...Ads!"); Will Elder ("Mole!", "Shadow!", "Outer Sanctum!", "Restaurant!", "Bringing Back Father!" (with Bernie Krigstein) and "Howdy Dooit!"); Jack Davis ("Hoohah!", "Lone Stranger Rides Again!", "Face Upon The Floor!" and "What's My Shine!"); Basil Wolverton ("MAD Reader!"" and "Meet Miss Potgold"); Russ Heath ("Plastic Sam!").
The Spirit newspaper sections: "The Haunt" (Oct 27, 1946), "Silken Floss" (Mar 9, 1947), "Umbrella Handles" (Dec 28, 1947), "The Wedding" (May 2, 1948), "Plaster of Paris" (Nov 7, 1948), "A Slow Ship to Shanghai" (Jan 30, 1949), "Visitor" (Feb 13, 1949), "A Pot of Gold" (Apr 3, 1949), "The Spirit Now Deputy" (Apr 24, 1949), "Hamid Jebru" (May 8, 1949), "The Return" (Aug 14, 1949), "The Return of Vino Red" (Sep 25, 1949), "Crime" (Oct 2, 1949) [incorrectly listed in table of contents as "The Return of Autumn Mews" from Oct 9, 1949], "Lonesome Cool" (Dec 18, 1949), "Sand Saref" (Jan 8, 1950), "Nickles Nerser" (Feb 5, 1950) and "The Island" (Mar 26, 1950)
Stories from various EC comics: Crime SuspenStories ("A Tree Grows in Borneo!"); Haunt of Fear ("A Biting Finish!", "Chatter-Boxed!", "Horror We? How's Bayou?", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes...", "The New Arrival", "About Face"); Tales from the Crypt ("A Sucker for a Spider!", "Half-Baked!", "Accidents and Old Lace"); Terror Illustrated ("The Basket"); Vault of Horror ("Buried Alive", "...With all the Trappings!", "A Grim Fairy Tale!", "Where There's a Will...", "Shoe-Button Eyes!", "All For Gnawt").
Daredevil (2011) #23-27 (slipcased, also includes a 60-page softcover book containing script pages by Mark Waid, annotated with Samnee's thumbnail sketches)
Stories from various EC comics: Crime SuspenStories ("Mother's Day", "Return Blow", "This'll Kill You", "Dog Food", "The Firebug"); Extra! ("Hong Kong"); Haunt of Fear ("Swamped"); Piracy ("Blackbeard", "Partners"); Shock SuspenStories ("Carrion Death!", "Sweetie-Pie", "The Space Suitors", "The Kidnapper", "Upon Reflection", "For Cryin' Out Loud!", "A Kind of Justice", "Rundown"); Tales From the Crypt ("Burial at Sea""); Two-Fisted Tales ("Battle!"); Vault of Horror ("Together They Lie!", "Top Billing").
The Man-Thing graphic novel "Screenplay of the Living Dead Man" (serialised as Infernal Man-Thing #1-3); "A Little Fire" (Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1).
An expanded reprint of the 2016 edition, now including a complete 12-page story by Joe Kubert in layout form ("The Troubadour" from Our Army at War #200)
Note: Following the publication of Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man Artist's Edition in Sept 2022, the main Artist's Edition line now includes books that would previously have been branded as Artifact Editions.
Artist's Edition Portfolios
An Artist's Edition Portfolio contains loose pages, printed on one side only, collected in a hardcover folder. Like the regular Artist's Edition books, the pages are printed in the same size as the original artwork.
Since the Artist's Edition line became established by IDW, other publishers have begun to release their own lines of similar books reprinting comic art at its original size:
Two unpublished Marvel adaptations of The Prisoner TV series, both dating from the mid-70's. Jack Kirby's pages are mainly in pencil, with a few inked pages. Gil Kane's pages are pencilled layouts.
The Winter Men #1-5; The Winter Men Winter Special
12" × 17" (305mm × 432mm)
Sep 2022
192
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