This week I’m indulging myself a little bit. My mind works like “Huh there’s a cat… cat’s have tails, so do Monkeys… my finance’s riding coach had a monkey… I wonder if she’s riding today…” and off into infinity. So when I saw that there were two Parable contributors that also contribute to Flight, my thoughts went something like “Huh, theres a few creators in Parable that also do comics for Flight. I love Flight! I should do a news post on Flight!” I’m really hoping that everyone reading this Blog knows about Flight, but if not, allow me to introduce this most excellent publication.

Flight Volume One featured 22 short comics by 21 contributors, first published back in 2004 through Image Publishing. Flight is now on it’s fourth installment, has seen a doubled page count(352 pages) containing 25 short comics and was released in 2007 under publisher Ballantine Books. The fifth Flight is currently in the works. Flight is a very good example of the kind of anthology that works and works well, bringing together very different views, ideas and stories into one beautiful package with something for everyone. Much like Parable, and we’re happy to have an connection to Flight through two of our contributors.

For those of you who are a bit quicker with recognizing names, you probably know who I’m talking about. For those like me that need a little prompting from time to time, I’m talking about Sarah Mensinga and Ben Hatke, two great connections to a comic anthology that is fast approaching it’s 5th installment with names like Kazu Kibuishi and Jeff Smith gracing the contributor’s list. It sure gives us at Parable something to aspire to!

In other news, I came across this article linked in Kazu’s blog, and I thought it was a great story to point out how mainstream business and audiences alike are starting to pick up comics from creators that aren’t owned by the big two. I thought it was awesome because you don’t usually associate comics with finance.