Terry Moore on Strangers in Paradise 2013

Terry Moore is a busy man this year. In addition to his ongoing comic book series, Rachel Rising, the writer is working on a prose novel set in the world of his award-winning comic book series Strangers in Paradise, which ended in 2007. He's also working on a softcover edition of the giant Strangers in Paradise Omnibus, which is set to debut later this year to celebrate the comic's 20th anniversary. Along the way, he's also hinted that some of the characters from SiP might make a stop-over in Manson, the spooky city that's the backdrop for Rachel Rising. Up until now, though, the details have remained pretty sketchy. They're starting to come into a bit of focus, though, as Moore recently blogged:

With still a lot of work to do on the novel, I've had to put it aside to make sure a couple of other books come out this summer, the SiP Treasury and the SiP Omnibus Softcover. I plan to resume work on the novel after this years convention season. Finally, we have [the softcover omnibus] on the schedule for this summer. The softcover SiP Omnibus will contain the entire SiP series plus all the spin-off stories. To do this, it will be two 1200-page books (yes, 2400 pages), at the full comic book size of roughly 6 X 10, and the twin books will come together in one package for one price. The price has not yet been settled, but we are trying to keep it around $100. There will be no limited numbers or trickery to availability—we want everybody who wants one to get one.

He's also publishing a Strangers in Paradise Treasury, essentially a handbook to the series that acts as a reading companion to the Omnibus. He's published one before, but it was in the middle of the comic's original run and some of the material was incomplete or inaccurate. Here's Moore on the details:

It's a large format, full color commentary on the series with behind-the-scenes info on the story, the characters, the research, every cover and every book and every spin-off, where the ideas came from, how I worked and changed things, what was left on the cutting room floor… just all that extra stuff I could show and tell if you sat with me in the studio as we went through the series page by page and I pointed out how I did it and what I was thinking. I actually released a treasury years ago, but it only covered the first half of the series, so this year I am completing the book to cover the entire series. Also, the first treasury was published through Harper Collins, who printed the book and then didn't tell anybody. It was a very expensive secret. If you have one, it is very rare and probably priceless. Donate it to the Smithsonian. They can put it on Lincoln's desk.