Publication
McNeil publishes the series through her Lightspeed Press imprint and on its website. She began the series in the customary comics format of 24-page magazine/pamphlets, which she soon began collecting on a roughly annual basis in trade paperback editions containing extensive footnotes explaining particulars of the story and of the richly detailed world the characters are moving through. In 2005, prompted both by low profits on the single-issues and by the format's implicit limitations on story pacing, McNeil ended the pamphlet format of the series with issue #38, and moved regular publication of the story online, with two fresh pages a week appearing free at www.lightspeedpress.com. The solidly profitable trade-paperback collections have continued to appear annually in time for the summer convention season, although in 2007 "Finder Book 1," a hardcover collection of the first two volumes, was issued as that year's book and Volume 9's release pushed ahead to summer 2008. With a few additions, the volumes have presented the single issues (and then the webcomic) in their original order of production, except for issue #22 (included with vols 1 & 2 in the hardcover "Book 1"), issue #30 (batched with issue #38 (and its online continuation) in Volume 8); and the two issues of McNeil's connecting side project "Mystery Date" which, with issue #31, form the bulk of Finder Volume 6. The collections have included short stories such as "Counting Coup," "The Model's Artist," and "Brief Wake," while rare shorts such as "Free Trade" have appeared on the website, and there is apparently a Jaeger "pillow book" desultorily in production.
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