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.

Publication history

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, Volume Five in July 2008, with 368 pages, Volume Six in July 2009 with 283 pages, and Volume Seven in July 2010 with 288 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
• Flight Explorer Volume One: ISBN 978-0-345-50313-8
• Flight Volume Six: ISBN 978-0-345-50590-3
• Flight Volume Seven: ISBN 978-0-345-51737-1
• Flight Volume Eight: ISBN 978-0-345-51738-8

Contributors

Stories

References

External links

• Official website
• FLIGHT 2 Roundtable Interview & Preview @ PopImage
• FLIGHT 3 Roundtable Interview & Preview @ PopImage
• Friends of Flight: A Flight 4 Roundtable, July 10, 2007, Newsarama
• Friends of Flight II: A Creator's Friendly Chat, July 18, 2007, Newsarama
• Friends of Flight III: Commentaries, July 19, 2007, Newsarama
• Friends of Flight: A Post-Flight 4 Check-in, July 20, 2007, Newsarama
• Friends of Flight V: Talking to Kazu Kibuishi, July 22, 2007, Newsarama