Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked

By Tom Spurgeon

A recurring column assembling all the straight-up publishing news -- what's coming out, who's doing it, when you'll see it, what it will look like -- into one place:

* SLG will launch their new free webcomics program on Thursday.

* this escaped my attention the moment it happened, but the genre prose publisher Tor has launched their group blog. Someone told me that Jim Henley got the superhero comics gig there, with two more comics-related bloggers to be announced. I always like reading Bruce Baugh on role-playing games.

* on the heels of the massive successful first collection The Trials of Colonel Sweeto, a complete collection of Perry Bible Fellowship strips to date called The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack will be released for the Christmas book-buying season. Apparently, Sweeto has been through three printings.

* you know what's crazy? I just ran a Five For Friday on books that people are anticipating for the second half of the 2008 publishing year, and no one mentioned this one. It could be that it's difficult for people to vote for something they've already seen in another form, but I have to imagine that book is going to do well both sales-wise and in terms of end-of-the-year critical attention. I blame the number of great books out.

* one of the classic, all-time, old-school, comics-related links is the Editor & Publisher note about a forthcoming strip book. Frazz has a new one coming out. So does Mutts.

* the long-delayed collection of Howard Chaykin's fondly-remembered satirical action-adventure series American Flagg!, maybe the most memorable title to come out of the core of the independent comics movement, should hit stores this month or next if it hasn't just dropped.

* the cartoonists Laura Howell and Karrie Fransman are both publishing work in the Guardian.

* Jonathan Cape is publishing a new hardback edition of Bryan Talbot's The Tale of One Bad Rat, which should be available in August.

* the publisher WW Norton has purchased a graphic novel biography of Nelson Mandela.

* Joe Kubert will do a how-to book with Vanguard.

* finally, the Vancouver-based cartoonist Miriam Libicki should have the first copies of a graphic novel collection of the first six issues of her jobnik! back from the printers any second now. Sean Kleefeld will tell you what it's about.

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