James has wanted to release The Crow: Author's Edition since 1998. It will contain at least 60 pages of new material that no one has ever seen. Half of that are pages that had to be removed for space reasons. James describes the additions as including more romance flashback scenes between Eric and Shelly, as well as sequences which will make the work more visually interesting
Pocket Books currently owns publication rights to the book, and they have postponed the Author's Edition until their sales of the current graphic novel drop below 25,000 copies per year. They contacted James last month and told him it was time.
James is now going back and editing in all the original pages. Some of them had been given as gifts to friends or sold, so some pages James is having to redraw from scratch. This is also giving him the chance to redraw some other things he was never really satisfied with in the original books.
Don't worry, this isn't the case of some George Lucas ruining the originals!! This is stuff that was really supposed to be in the originals. You're going to love it!
I'll let everybody know when it's getting close to publishing time on here, so be sure to watch this page! The minute I have an exact release date, I'll be letting you know!
Sidenote: James is a bit overwhelmed right now working on this, so it'll be a while before he can accept any new commission work.
~Michael
Pocket Books currently owns publication rights to the book, and they have postponed the Author's Edition until their sales of the current graphic novel drop below 25,000 copies per year. They contacted James last month and told him it was time.
James is now going back and editing in all the original pages. Some of them had been given as gifts to friends or sold, so some pages James is having to redraw from scratch. This is also giving him the chance to redraw some other things he was never really satisfied with in the original books.
Don't worry, this isn't the case of some George Lucas ruining the originals!! This is stuff that was really supposed to be in the originals. You're going to love it!
I'll let everybody know when it's getting close to publishing time on here, so be sure to watch this page! The minute I have an exact release date, I'll be letting you know!
Sidenote: James is a bit overwhelmed right now working on this, so it'll be a while before he can accept any new commission work.
~Michael
GO JAMES GO! :) This is great news!
Posted by: David J aka Dragonsforyin | January 16, 2010 at 02:49 PM
Very long awaited news!
Posted by: blackfeather | January 17, 2010 at 05:21 PM
OMG!!! FINALLY!!! After so many Years it's going to be published!!!
Posted by: Mário | January 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Would be great that the Author's Edition cover would be the same that appeared in the first book of the first publication of The Crow - The one whit Eric's face!
I once saw an O'Barr's sketch that showed Eric at a junkyard (whit a Danny DeVito-like character) buying pieces to fix his car that was broken for a year - this scene explains a lot! It should never be removed and it will be great to have it back to the book!
Also, there's one thing i never understood: where was Eric's Car during that year?! At the police station?
anyway, The Crow Author's Edition will be something I'll be buying!
Posted by: eric | January 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Hey James , I wanted to thank you for that day at the corpus Christi convention . I had a great time talking to you and enjoyed sitting at your table. I wanted to say thank you for the great gifts you gave me for my birthday it was unexpected and something didn't have to do but you did. I had a lot of respect for your art and work but I left with an even greater respect for you as a person. The drawing an the time spent talking with you made this my greatest birthday. Thanks. Is there any way I could email you ?
Posted by: Joe rodriguez | January 31, 2010 at 11:10 PM
I would like to say how much I enjoyed reading this post. I love it.
On a bad note...
There's been word of a "Crow" remake... why?
A movie based on this specific comic book deserves to stay 'original.'
Brandon Lee? I think nothing can capture the emotion built within a piece of work that made an audience weep every time he showed his death deifying performance...
I would appreciate the reason and nothing less...
Posted by: Shaun Kelly | February 09, 2010 at 10:04 PM
This is AWESOME.
Good luck with the work James! look forward to reading it!
Posted by: Jon from Elmwood | February 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM
I hope it comes out really soon I can't wait! I AM FREAKING OUT MAN! I was going to buy it recently and saw this news and was like "YEAAAAH!!!!"
Posted by: Jon | March 08, 2010 at 04:44 PM
omg!i can NOT wait!but i guess i will!lol!super excited can you tell:)
Posted by: Jolene Calderon | March 28, 2010 at 12:01 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VmfcTVgY0I
Posted by: Peter B | April 23, 2010 at 06:06 AM
About time....
Bought the single editions first time round on Caliber, was great to finally get 'Death' though when KS printed the 3-set.
James, thank you. For a while, this meant everything, and gave me direction and somewhere to store the pain.
Wolf.
Posted by: James Hemmings | April 24, 2010 at 04:01 AM
Man, will be tough to do this. When I was 15 in 93 I got the bess cutler auction book. Some pages were as cheap as $350-400 each. A LOT of the pages were sold. Wish I would have got one or a couple at the time, but how much money does a 15 yr old have lol. Hoping for the best though!!!
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