Due to the many inquiries about the release date of Little Nemo Volume 2 on the customize, retailers and media representatives, the publisher of Checker Book Publishing Group has written the letter below to inform all interested parties on the progress of this groundbreaking project.
An open letter to Comics aficionados:
This is a letter to fans and retailers who have been waiting for our second edition of Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.
We had been scheduled to print this edition several months ago and I realize it is running late. I thought out of respect I should discuss the reasons why.
Checker is a specialist in classic illustrated material. As such, we had, of course, ambitiously targeted the watershed publication of the last century and THE all time seminal comics creation- Little Nemo. Our initial plans included a significant amount of original newspapers we have been acquiring over the past two years.
However, in our marketing and press release we warned fans that due to the rarity of this material, this edition was originally planned to contain black and white versions of some of the late Winsor McCay Little Nemo run from 1924-1926. This extraordinary piece of American History has NEVER been collected! This is an astounding embarrassment to the publishing community as a whole because McCay was such a visual pioneer.
Well, as luck would have it, just prior to print dates earlier in the fall we discovered the final pieces we needed to accomplish the collection of the entire 1924-1926 periods in color. This has extended the production by a few months, but we hope you understand. We will refund any orders to any customer who needs to change because of this, but as a historian of this type of material we had to aggressively pursue this late find to include in our omnibus Little Nemo collections…which when published; will be unlike any other Nemo book ever published in fact- be a rare gem amongst ALL books ever published.
Sincerely,
Mark Thompson
Publisher
Checker Book Publishing Group
