Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.
I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.