Adult colouring books - coming

[Therin of Andor]

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2369/sdcc-2016-dark-horse-adds-star-trek-adult-coloring

"More adult coloring books will be announced in the months ahead, so stay tuned for your chance to color your favorite comic creations" but "Star Trek: The Original Series Adult Coloring Book and Star Trek: The Next Generation Adult Coloring Book are in stores on October 19."

 

[Marsden]

I had some coloring books that came out around TMP but were obviously based on TOS, maybe a TAS tie in, but the heavily featured Rand. I think they got destroyed when my old house was torn down. I might get the TOS one, just to have.

 

[Johnny7oak]

Interesting. I wonder if they'd make a Crayola digital coloring adaption to like a kindle or something... it would be neat if the crayon switched colors linked to the color on the pad... like a touch the digital crayon on the color wheel or box, then color in selectable style modes...for digital kindle color books.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I had some coloring books that came out around TMP but were obviously based on TOS, maybe a TAS tie in, but the heavily featured Rand.

There was a very funny one in which Nurse Chapel's outline had been traced from a photo, and her insignia and collar were drawn as if they were a knotted scarf around her neck.

 

[Jedi_Master]

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2369/sdcc-2016-dark-horse-adds-star-trek-adult-coloring

"More adult coloring books will be announced in the months ahead, so stay tuned for your chance to color your favorite comic creations" but "Star Trek: The Original Series Adult Coloring Book and Star Trek: The Next Generation Adult Coloring Book are in stores on October 19."

I'll have to get one of those. I would enjoy having a relaxing hobby.

 

[publiusr]

Blasts from the past
http://www.startrekcomics.info/coloring.html

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Are these coloring books the the same as the Trek coloring books John Byrne is now illustrating?

 

[mmtz]

IDW is publishing John Byrne's Stowaway to the Stars: A Graphic Album to Color this fall, Nov 2016. It's not a Star Trek project.

https://www.amazon.com/John-Byrnes-Stowaway-Stars-Graphic/dp/1631407694/

Has Byrne announced a Trek coloring book?

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

IDW is publishing John Byrne's Stowaway to the Stars: A Graphic Album to Color this fall, Nov 2016. It's not a Star Trek project.

https://www.amazon.com/John-Byrnes-Stowaway-Stars-Graphic/dp/1631407694/

Has Byrne announced a Trek coloring book?

No, I think I confused the IDW coloring book as being a Star Trek project. Sorry.

 

[JD]

Interesting. I wonder if they'd make a Crayola digital coloring adaption to like a kindle or something... it would be neat if the crayon switched colors linked to the color on the pad... like a touch the digital crayon on the color wheel or box, then color in selectable style modes...for digital kindle color books.

I don't think any of the other adult coloring books done in this style have ever been given apps like that, so I doubt these will.
Ever since they started doing adult coloring books for things like Dr. Who, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones I've been hoping for Star Trek, so this news makes me very happy. I'll definitely be getting at least the TNG one.

 

[Christopher]

What is it that makes these "adult coloring books" instead of "all-ages coloring books?" I assume it's not the sort of thing that "adult" is often used to imply, though I could see that in the case of a Game of Thrones coloring book.

 

[JD]

I think it's mainly just because they tend to feature more detailed, complex images than the usually kids' coloring books. There no adult content in any of them, even the GoT one.

 

[Therin of Andor]

What is it that makes these "adult coloring books" instead of "all-ages coloring books?" I assume it's not the sort of thing that "adult" is often used to imply, though I could see that in the case of a Game of Thrones coloring book.

They seem to be marketed as "adult" because the drawings are more complex, and not suited to "all ages" abilities. So-called adult colouring books are often stocked in different sections of bookshops to the regular kids' colouring, puzzle and sticker books.

A bit like so-called "Young adult" books being more suited to younger kids (eg the old TOS, TNG and VOY Academy novels) or, indeed, much older readers (such as the later "Harry Potter" novels, which were progressively aimed at higher reading ages).

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I thought it was to side-step the stigma of "coloring books are for kids" in much the same way the term "graphic novels" tries to avoid the "comic books are for kids" stigma.

 

[Christopher]

I thought it was to side-step the stigma of "coloring books are for kids" in much the same way the term "graphic novels" tries to avoid the "comic books are for kids" stigma.

Well, except that that's co-opting the term "graphic novel" from its original meaning (a particular, squarebound prestige format of extra-long comics, e.g. The Dark Knight Returns or The Death of Captain Marvel) to a more generalized meaning (synonym for all comics). "Adult coloring books" is more straightforward -- aside from the sexual implications often attached to the word "adult" as an adjective for entertainment media.

 

[Steve Roby]

Will there be ebook versions?

(Not that I want them, but ebook versions of adult colouring books are a real thing. No idea why.)

 

[Jinn]

Will there be ebook versions?

(Not that I want them, but ebook versions of adult colouring books are a real thing. No idea why.)

You could make screenshots and print the page

 

[JD]

Will there be ebook versions?

(Not that I want them, but ebook versions of adult colouring books are a real thing. No idea why.)

They are? How does that work, do you pick colors and swipe to color them in or something? Or do you just print the pages.

 

[Steve Roby]

No idea. A lot of the time you can't print the pages because of DRM.

 

[Avro Arrow]

You just use the crayons directly on your screen.

It works once, anyway.