Flight (comics)

Flight (comics)

"Flight" is a comics anthology series edited by Kazu Kibuishi, showcasing young and innovative artists and writers. According to Volume One's Afterword by "Scott McCloud's Brain", the average age of its contributors was 24 years, although Volume Two features one or two older contributors. Image Comics published the first two volumes. In June 2005 Kibuishi announced that the series would move from Image to Ballantine Books from Volume Three on in an attempt to increase sales through mainstream bookstores. Kibuishi also stated that subsequent volumes would be released twice-yearly.

Volume One was published in July 2004 and contains 23 stories, totalling approximately 160 (unnumbered) pages. Volume Two, published in March 2005, is over 400 pages long and contains 33 stories with a greater average length. The increase in size is almost certainly due to the interest generated in prospective contributors by the first volume. Volume Three was released in June 2006 and contains 26 stories over 352 pages. Volume Four was released in July 2007, with 344 pages, and Volume Five in July 2008, with 368 pages.

Kibuishi has denied that "Flight" is a theme anthology, or that the title has any significance besides being short and memorable. Nevertheless, many of the strips do feature flight in one or more sense of the word. Other than that there is no unifying style or theme; the strips exhibit a wide variety of art techniques from the conventional to the experimental, and storylines include comedy, tragedy, macabre, adventure and romance. The art of the volumes also have a very surreal quality to them.

*"Flight Volume One": ISBN 1-58240-381-3
*"Flight Volume Two": ISBN 1-58240-477-1
*"Flight Volume Three": ISBN 0-345-49039-8
*"Flight Volume Four": ISBN 0-345-49040-1
*"Flight Volume Five": ISBN 0-345-50589-1

Contributors

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External links

* [http://www.flightcomics.com/ Flight website]
* [http://www.boltcity.com/ Kazu Kibuishi's website]
* [http://www.imagecomics.com/ Image Comics website]
* [http://www.popimage.com/content/flightintro.html FLIGHT 2 Roundtable Interview & Preview @ PopImage]
* [http://www.popimage.com/content/flight3intro.html FLIGHT 3 Roundtable Interview & Preview @ PopImage]
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=120244 Friends of "Flight": A "Flight" 4 Roundtable] , July 10, 2007, Newsarama
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=121452 Friends of "Flight" II: A Creator's Friendly Chat] , July 18, 2007, Newsarama
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=121646 Friends of "Flight" III: Commentaries] , July 19, 2007, Newsarama
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=121819 Friends of "Flight": A Post-"Flight" 4 Check-in] , July 20, 2007, Newsarama
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=122022 Friends of "Flight" V: Talking to Kazu Kibuishi] , July 22, 2007, Newsarama


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