About Comics is proud to announce that due to ongoing demand, The Blank Comic Book has returned. This comic book-sized booklet with 24 blank pages wrapped in a blank white cover has proven to be success with folks young and old doing comics craft projects. As with any good second run of a comic, this one features a new cover. “It’s still blank, still white,” explains The Blank Comic Book’s creator Nat Gertler, “but this time it has a heavier, card stock cover and won’t have a gloss coating. That should make it easier to draw on with a range of art implements.”
The Blank Comic Book cover (second non-printing)
The Blank Comic Book will no longer be available in shrink-wrapped retail five-packs, a package which was designed for the needs of Diamond Comics Distribution. Instead, About Comics is selling The Blank Comic Book in bulk directly to retailers. Stores in the contiguous 48 US states and Canada may order a case of 150 copies for $120 postpaid; delivery takes up to four weeks. Stores in all 50 US states may order 50 copies for $50 postpaid, generally delivered within a week via Express Mail.
Retailers have reacted strongly to this second run, pre-ordering not only more copies than they did of the first run, but more copies than of any non-Free Comics Book Day product that About Comics has offered in over a decade of publishing. “Obviously,” confesses Gertler, “About Comics has wasted a lot of years focusing on content.”
Folks interested in purchasing individual copies should go to http://aboutcomics.com/TheBlank.html for a list of stores stocking The Blank Comic Book. That same page has wholesale ordering information for retailers.
