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David_Mack

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March 5th, 2009 9:43 PM

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KABUKI- THE ALCHEMY Hardcover collection in stores Today

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THE ALCHEMY Hardcover in stores TODAY!
Both the Limited Edition with original drawing, and the regular edtion.
Both in stores today all around the world! (I think the UK got it last week).

And they look great! The paper looks great ( the pages printed way better than the original comic format). The dust jacket printed great. The embossments on the hardcover looks impressive. It just reads really good in this format.
And the original sketches are placed inside the limited editions very nicely.
It's done!

KABUKI: The Alchemy Hardcover in stores TODAY!

I just wanted to give you an update on this since I saw a few posts asking about it on my board and Brian�s board.

Let me know if you have any questions about it.

And here is some info about it in case this helps:

Here is a link to the front cover of the new dust jacket: http://davidmackguide.com/news/2008/09/09.shtml

The collection is 320 pages (the biggest collection of my work ever made so far) and includes quite a few new features that I wanted to let you know of.

- Chuck Palahniuk generously wrote quite a long introduction for the book that is almost like a little short story in itself.

- In the back, I included the entire original script from the first issue (and some of the second). Complete with my sketches and handwritten notes jotted on the script to reorganize and edit it.

- Also taking a note from the POWERS definitive Hardcover collection, The Alchemy collection also marks the first time I included a �best of letters� section in a collection of my work. (and several of you from this board are in it).

- There are some pages of the original drawings of The Shy Creatures that originated in The Alchemy story. From the initial brush and ink drawings to the full sized colored.

- This collection includes some story pages that were never included in the original issue of the final issue. There was an additional ending scene that I cut out of the single issue of the final issue because it didn�t seem to work in the single issue but it works as part of the collected story.
So that extra ending scene will now be seen for the first time in this story.

- There are about 56 pages that I reworked the art and added things to. And even changed the order of some pages/scenes.

- The covers are included without type obscuring them and I added a couple dozen opening art and design pages.

- There is an after word commentary about the process of the series and your own �Artistic License� to cut out with the origin of the artistic license from a letter sent to me by Chuck Palahniuk. And even a couple of other things.

- The Hardcover is embossed on the cover and spine with a watermark design on the interior end pages. Comes with a book mark, and I�m real happy with the design for the dust jacket.

-And the limited edition comes with an extra parchment paper page with an original brush and ink sketch- signed and numbered.

Boy, it was a lot of work to put this together
I hope you like it!

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