Sentence examples for prestige format from inspiring English sources
Scrolls were the prestige format, used for important works only: sacred texts, legal documents, history, literature.
The 64-page prestige format one-shot comic took a considerable amount of time to produce.
Gaiman and Matt Wagner co-wrote Sandman Midnight Theatre, a 1995 prestige format one-shot in which Dream and Wesley Dodds meet in person after the events in the storyline, "The Python," which ended with Dodds's lover, Dian Belmont, going to England, which eventually brings both her and Dodds to Roderick Burgess's mansion.
The first prestige-format issue, dubbed "Geisthawk" just came out and is proving many of those original cynics wrong.
Adult-oriented and experimental comics flourished in the 1970s, such as in the experimental science fiction of Mœbius and others in Métal hurlant, even mainstream publishers took to publishing prestige-format adult comics.
In the introduction to the story as it appears in the DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore trade paperback, Brian Bolland disputes the widely held belief that the story started as a Batman annual story and ended up as a prestige-format book.
However, given the sustained growth in the vinyl sector, and the undying perceived prestige of the format, it's unlikely pressing plant pressures will be alleviated by that sort of common sense logic.
But just as the format was making its way up from exploitation films and into prestige productions — including Columbia's "Miss Sadie Thompson," starring Rita Hayworth, and the MGM musical "Kiss Me Kate" — the bottom dropped out of the market.
Perhaps the only good thing to come out of Hollywood's increasing trend toward end-of-year prestige biopics is a rise in film-makers who are equally tired with the musty format and keen to craft something unconventional instead.
The prestige is gratifying.
