Slingsby Bros, Ink! is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of David Wright's Jo, another nearly-forgotten Carol Day precursor strip, and a companion to our Judy book released earlier this year. As with Judy, as far as we are aware, this is the first printing of Jo since its original publication.

Jo is a typical adventure strip for the time and very similar in its premise to Judy—a young, beautiful girl is thrust into danger with her partner, and their adventures take them to exotic locales in a series of loosely plotted melodramas.

Jo is somewhat distinguished from Judy in the quality of the art. While the early episodes of Judy are a warmup for Wright, in Jo he has fully gotten his footing and the art shines from the first day.

Our source material is tearsheets, and they are not the ideal source for reprinting strips. However, original art and proofs are unavailable (as far as we know they are not extant). We have adjusted contrast, lightness and black levels to provide as consistent and enjoyable experience as possible. If you are familiar with our book, David Wright's Judy, you will notice that the reproduction is whiter and brighter than in Judy, mainly due to the difference in source material.

Like Judy, we believe Jo is a minor gem by one of the greatest strip artists to practice the art and well worth fans' attention in spite of the limitations of our source. We have collected the complete run of Jo for this book and hope you will agree.

• Contents: Complete run, compirising episodes 1-87
• Source material: tearsheets
• Format: casebound
• Size: 11.8 x 11.8 inches
• Full color (strips in black and white)
• Printed endpapers
• 112 pages