Is Claypool Still publishing?

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:04 pm

Last book I saw from them was PAD's Searcher's Inc. but it's been awhile.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:19 pm

Nope. I believe they went out.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia for you

Claypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company created in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and, (with Steve Englehart), Phantom of Fear City. Ed Via is Claypool's publisher and editor-in-chief, while Richard Howell serves as editor.

The company published 336 issues in total. Deadbeats ran 82 issues, as did Soulsearchers and Company, with three Deadbeats trade paperback collections and two for Soulsearchers. Elvira ran for 166 issues, with two trade paperback collections. There were 12 issues of Phantom of Fear City. There was also a Free Comic Book Day flip-book which was half Deadbeats and half Soulsearchers. [1]

In July 2006, Claypool announced that the print end of its published line would cease, as Diamond Comic Distributors, the industry's major distribution arm, would no longer carry it. [2]

Deadbeats made the shift to Internet publication in April 2007, appearing on the Claypool Comics website with new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

You can view them online here:
http://www.claypoolcomics.com/

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:19 pm

Doorman wrote:Nope. I believe they went out.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia for you

Claypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company created in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and, (with Steve Englehart), Phantom of Fear City. Ed Via is Claypool's publisher and editor-in-chief, while Richard Howell serves as editor.

The company published 336 issues in total. Deadbeats ran 82 issues, as did Soulsearchers and Company, with three Deadbeats trade paperback collections and two for Soulsearchers. Elvira ran for 166 issues, with two trade paperback collections. There were 12 issues of Phantom of Fear City. There was also a Free Comic Book Day flip-book which was half Deadbeats and half Soulsearchers. [1]

In July 2006, Claypool announced that the print end of its published line would cease, as Diamond Comic Distributors, the industry's major distribution arm, would no longer carry it. [2]

Deadbeats made the shift to Internet publication in April 2007, appearing on the Claypool Comics website with new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

You can view them online here:
http://www.claypoolcomics.com/

Doorman, You rock sir!

I'll wager those TPB's are hard as hell to find.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:54 am

X-O HoboJoe wrote:
Doorman wrote:Nope. I believe they went out.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia for you

Claypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company created in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and, (with Steve Englehart), Phantom of Fear City. Ed Via is Claypool's publisher and editor-in-chief, while Richard Howell serves as editor.

The company published 336 issues in total. Deadbeats ran 82 issues, as did Soulsearchers and Company, with three Deadbeats trade paperback collections and two for Soulsearchers. Elvira ran for 166 issues, with two trade paperback collections. There were 12 issues of Phantom of Fear City. There was also a Free Comic Book Day flip-book which was half Deadbeats and half Soulsearchers. [1]

In July 2006, Claypool announced that the print end of its published line would cease, as Diamond Comic Distributors, the industry's major distribution arm, would no longer carry it. [2]

Deadbeats made the shift to Internet publication in April 2007, appearing on the Claypool Comics website with new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

You can view them online here:
http://www.claypoolcomics.com/
Doorman, You rock sir!

I'll wager those TPB's are hard as hell to find.

Yeah I think your right.
IIRC because some (if not all of them) were published a LONG time ago. That is one of the things that really hurt Claypool IMHO was the fact that they didn't know or want to bother with TPBs even though fans begged them to release more TPBs.

I remember when Claypool stopped publishing and PAD posted about it on his site and when fans started saying that they would have bought Soulsearchers and Company if they would have released more TPBs he replied something to the effect "go looking through back issue bins or order them off the website". I'm not 15 anymore and digging through back issues bins at comic book stores, conventions, and flea markets is not fun for me anymore and at the time Claypool's online store was little outdated and looked the kind of online store you have expected from the late 90s.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:50 pm

I checked the other week and the DEADBEATS webcomic was still going. I don't know if they ever plan to collect the webcomic into a print trade, but that seems like the logical thing to do.

I once suggested they should put their backissues on WOWIO after they stopped their print publications, but never got a response.