Editing Zot! (section)

==Publication history==
Despite critical acclaim, ''Zot!'' was initially cancelled after 10 issues due to low sales in July 1985.<ref name=AH106NL>{{cite magazine|date=November 1, 1986|title=Newsline|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=106}}</ref> However, McCloud and Eclipse came up with the idea of switching from color to black-and-white, and the comic was then able to run profitably from January 1987<ref name=AH108NL>{{cite magazine|date=December 15, 1986|title=Newsline|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=108}}</ref> to July 1991 before McCloud ended the series after a total of 36 issues.<ref name=AH187NL>{{cite magazine|date=January 1991|title=Newsline|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=187}}</ref> Issues #19-20 shipped together, and due to McCloud's honeymoon featured [[Chuck Austen]] inking the artist's pencils.<ref name=AH145Z>{{cite magazine|date=July 15, 1988|title=Zot!|author=[[Heidi MacDonald]]|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=145/Preview Special 7}}</ref><ref name=KCA>{{cite book |last=Khoury |first=George |author-link= |date=2001 |title=Kimota! The Miracleman Companion |url= |location= |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page= |isbn=9781605490274|chapter="Beckum" and the Art of Violence}}</ref>

Eclipse planned to print the color issues as trade paperbacks to support the revived series, but the original color negatives were destroyed when their [[Guerneville, California]] headquarters flooded in 1986.<ref name=AH147TOTN>{{cite magazine|date=August 15, 1988|title=Top of the News ''(advertisement)''|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=147}}</ref> Instead Eclipse funded new color separations<ref name=AH157GN>{{cite magazine|date=January 15, 1989|title=Graphic Novels|author=Sheldon Weibe, Ed Sample & Gil Jordan|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=157/Preview Special}}</ref> by Dennis McFarling.<ref name=AH170GN>{{cite magazine|date=August 1, 1989|title=Graphic Novels|author=Ed Sample, [[Fred Patten]], [[Rogers Cadenhead]] & Gil Jordan|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=170/Preview Special 9}}</ref> ''The Original Zot! Book One'' ({{ISBN|0-91303-504-1}}) was released in August 1989 which collected issues 1–4 and included an introduction by McCloud.<ref name=AH169TOTN>{{cite magazine|date=July 15, 1989|title=Top of the News ''(advertisement)''|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=169}}</ref> ''The Original Zot! Book Two'' followed in June 1990, containing issues 5-8.<ref name=AH179NL>{{cite magazine|date=May 1990|title=Newsline|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=179}}</ref>

Although the comic has been [[out of print]], following the collapse of Eclipse it was collected by [[Kitchen Sink Press]] in Book One ({{ISBN|0-87816-427-8}}), which collected issues 1–10 and included an introduction by [[Kurt Busiek]]; Book 2 ({{ISBN|0-87816-428-6}}), which collected issues 11–15 and 17–18; and Book 3 ({{ISBN|0-87816-429-4}}) which collected issues 16 and 21–27. Book 4, collecting the "real world arc" of issues 28–36, was a casualty of Kitchen Sink's turmoil.

In 2000, ten years after the last print issue appeared, McCloud brought the series back in [[webcomic]] format under the title '''''Zot! Online'''''. He published the 440-panel story arc "Hearts And Minds" at ''[[Comic Book Resources]]''. McCloud used an [[infinite canvas]] style for ''Zot! Online'', using trails to instruct the reader what the reading order of the panels are.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbr.com/hes-got-your-number-mccloud-launches-the-right-number-online/|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|title=He's Got Your Number: McCloud Launches 'The Right Number' Online|date=2003-01-07}}</ref>

In July 2008, [[HarperCollins]] published the complete black and white issues of the series (11–36) in one volume. This edition included never-before-seen material and commentary by McCloud. It did not include the published "Getting to 99" story, but only McCloud's breakdowns, as the art was done by another artist, [[Chuck Austen]].<ref name=Austen>[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=44561 Zot #19]. [[Grand Comics Database]]. Retrieved November 16, 2011.</ref> In addition, HarperCollins published a limited, signed collector's edition of this collection in November 2008.