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22-Page Preview of Blue Baron #1 with Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema – Another 64-Page $3.99 Sitcomic

Writer for Seinfeld, Futurama, and My Family, Darin Henry, who has just sold a pitch to Netflix and made a new comedy for Disney, is publishing a line of humour comics called Sitcomics. But you won't see them in Diamond's Previews catalogue.

Instead, he is going direct to stores and has printed 25,000 copies of an eight-page catalogue, sent out to comic stores across the US. Published as 64-page standalone stories, over three times the length of a normal American comic, but for the price of one, $3.99, he can't afford the 70% discount Diamond Comic Distributor asks of him.

So he has started his own distributor, Sell-Through Distribution, he is encouraging readers to order the comics through their comic store. After the first issue is ordered, he will make subsequent issues ordered returnable.

The "Binge Book" catalogues are in comic book stores now, and orders will be received next Thursday, 25th, for sale instore on January 31st.

Comic book artists on Sitcomics are recognisable names, the likes of Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema, Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine), Jeff Shultz (Betty & Veronica), Craig Rousseau (Batman Beyond) and Al Milgrom (The Avengers).

Bleeding Cool will be running a number of free previews — each the size of a normal comic, until the order-cut-off day. We ran the first 20 pages of Start-Up #1 by Darin Henry, Craig Rousseau and Glenn Whitmore, then 28 pages of Super Suckers #1 by Darin Henry, Jeff Shulz, and Glenn Whitmore and 24 pages of Z-People by Darin Henry, Tom Richmond, and K. Michael Russell.

And today we have the first 22 pages of The Blue Baron #1 by Darin Henry, Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema, and Glenn Whitmore.

And if you want a peek at the catalogue yourself, you can do so right here. Another sizeable preview of another title tomorrow.

Here are the shops carrying Sitcomics… so far. You may recognise a few from the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List:

ALABAMA

CAPITOL CITY COMICS

ALASKA

THE COMIC SHOP

ARIZONA

JESSE JAMES COMICS

ARKANSAS

KAPOW! COMICS

CALIFORNIA

COMIX EXPERIENCE

COMICS CONSPIRACY

THE COMIC BUG

HI DE HO/GEOFFREY'S COMICS

LEGACY COMICS

YESTERYEAR COMICS

THE PERKY NERD

EMERALD KNIGHTS

HOUSE OF SECRETS

AVALON COMICS AND GAMES

KIMZAR KOLLECTABLES

P DOT'S COMICS & COLLECTIBLES

PULP FICTION

PAER HEROS (SAUGUS)

HEROS (FRESNO)

4 COLOR FANTASIES

COMICS FACTORY

DR COMICS & MR GAMES

COMICKAZE

BIZARRO WORLD

COLORADO

MILE HIGH COMICS

CONNECTICUT

THE COMIC CAVE

DELAWARE 

CAPTAIN BLUE HEN COMICS

FLORIDA

FAMOUS FACES & FUNNIES

GEORGIA

DR. NO'S COMICS

HAWAII

OTHER REALMS

IDAHO

CAPTAIN COMICS

ILLINOIS

GRAHAM CRACKERS COMICS

THE COMIX GALLERY

INDIANA

COMIC QUEST

READER COPIES

IOWA

RODMAN COMICS

KANSAS

PRAIRIE DOG COMICS

KENTUCKY

COMIC WORLD

LOUISIANA

BSI COMICS

PAPER HEROES

MAINE

COAST CITY COMICS

MARYLAND

CARDS, COMICS AND COLLECTABLES

MASSACHUSETTS

THE HALL OF COMICS

MICHIGAN

GREEN BRAIN COMICS

THE COMIC SIGNAL

COLLECTOR'S CORNER

FANFARE

MINNESOTA

ISSUES NEEDED COMICS

COLLECTOR'S CONNECTION

MISSISSIPPI

SOUTHERN FRIED COMICS

MISSOURI

ALL AMERICAN COLLECTIBLES

THE FANTASY SHOP

COMIC RELIEF

MONTANA

MUSE COMICS

KELLY'S KOMIX

NEBRASKA

THE DRAGON'S LAIR

NEVADA

ALTERNATE REALITY

NEW HAMPSHIRE

DOUBLE MIDNIGHT

JETPACK COMICS

NEW JERSEY

DEWEY'S COMIC CITY

FAT JACK'S COMICRYPT

FUNNYBOOKS

NEW MEXICO

ZIA COMICS

NEW YORK

QUEEN CITY BOOKSTORE

ZOMBIE PLANET

NORTH CAROLINA

SSALEFISH COMICS

HERO'S AREN'T HARD TO FIND

DREAMDAZE COMICS, FUN & GAMES

NORTH DAKOTA

PARADOX COMICS

OHIO

ALTER EGO COMICS

LAUGHING OGRE COMICS

OKLAHOMA

IMPULSE CREATIONS

OREGON

ASTONISHING ADVENTURES

FUTURE DREAMS

PENNSYLVANIA

FAT JACK'S COMICRYPT

COMICS AND PAPERBACKS PLUS

THE COMIC STORE

COMIC STORE WEST

COMIX CONNECTION

PITTSBURGH COMICS

COMICS WORLD

EIDE'S ENTERTAINMENT

SEQUENTIAL ARTS TOO

RHODE ISLAND

RAH-COCO'S

SOUTH CAROLINA

BORDERLANDS COMICS

SOUTH DAKOTA

RAINBOW COMICS

TENNESSEE

THE GOLDEN AGE, 1942 –

TEXAS

GEEK OUT

LONE STAR COMICS

M&M COMIC SERVICE

UTAH

BLACK CAT COMICS

DR. VOLT'S COMICS

VERMONT

KILLER RABBIT COMICS

VIRGINIA

VELOCITY COMICS

WASHINGTON

I LIKE COMICS

WEST VIRGINIA

COMIC WORLD

WISCONSIN

GRAHAM CRACKERS COMICS

KOWABUNGA COMICS

WYOMING

DUGOUT COLLECTIBLES

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