{"id":208,"date":"2014-01-14T05:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-06-20T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:01:18","slug":"after-acclaim-for-its-intriguing-story-online-the-bunker-jumps-digital-divide-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/14\/after-acclaim-for-its-intriguing-story-online-the-bunker-jumps-digital-divide-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"After acclaim for its intriguing story online, ‘The Bunker’ jumps digital divide to print"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five people freshly graduated from college, and all on paths that will lead to apocalypse for the world.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not what most would expect as they prepare for their own futures but, said writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, it\u2019s not every day five friends chance upon a mysterious bunker with warnings about a devastating future to come if ways are not changed and different roads taken.<\/p>\n

Such is the premise of \u201cThe Bunker\u201d by Fialkov and artist Joe Infurnari, whose work on the book has seen its popularity grow so much that they are jumping the digital divide to offer it in print through Oni Press.<\/p>\n

Fialkov says the progression is natural given that there is a prestige to having a book sold in shops, but he says it\u2019s about bringing an intriguing story to a new audience, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing it backwards,\u201d said Fialkov though he was quick to add that first publishing the book digitally through Comixology and through its own website helped garner fans and critical accolades, as well as interest from television.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a book that Joe and I decided we wanted to do, a book entirely outside of the system,\u201d Fialkov said, noting that it paralleled, in a sense, their own hopes in \u201cknowing what your destiny is.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the success of the title digitally five chapters are online at $1.99 apiece now publishers expressed interest. Oni was picked because of its reputation for titles like the Scott Pilgrim books, \u201cWhiteout\u201d and \u201cQueen and Country,\u201d Fialkov said.<\/p>\n

The 48-page first issue is set for release by Oni Press Feb. 12, collecting all the previously-released digital chapters in full colour and, in some cases, redrawn to fit the size of a standard comic book.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got back into comics, prior to making them, Oni books were the ones I was always drawn to,\u201d Fialkov said. \u201cTheir sensibility really matches what I am into.\u201d<\/p>\n

Online:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thebunkercomic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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