Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* John Porcellino has a new project out. That should be all I need to say, right?

* the top publishing news story of the week: Top Shelf walks us through their 2011, including news the next LOEG book coming out in July.

* profiles of Shawn Kerri and Jaime Hernandez are the headline features in the punk comics issue of Maximum Rocknroll, out this month. That's slightly off the beaten path, I guess, or a lot off the beaten path, depending on where you've situated yourself. Kerri would have made a great flip-cover feature to a Pete Millar front-cover on an issue of The Comics Journal.

* the cartoonist Doug TenNapel has launched a webcomic, Ratfist.

* Craig Thompson informs his blog readers that a publishing date for Habibi will be announced this month and that he has two projects in mind for a follow-up to that massive project.

* I can usually pick up on one or two mainstream comics publishing news stories by ego-searching the term "comics reporter" and seeing what the Digital Spy crew is turning over stick to rock. Phil Jimenez has apparently signed an exclusive with DC, and will be put to work on the Legion Of Super-Heroes characters. That seems to me like a solid move to make, although I still think it would be awesome if they turned over the Legion to fans and outside creators via a copyright free pass or whatever they're called, and then published the best results on a non-exclusive basis. Wouldn't that be fun?

* meanwhile, the character of Skaar -- Hulk's space-alien son, whose motto I believe is "I'm closely related to the strongest one there is!" -- takes over the Savage Land, in a new comic. I thought the Savage Land had been destroyed, actually, but I don't get to that section of the store as much as I'd like. I laughed when the article said Skaar's adventures will include meeting up with prominent Savage Land character including Ka-Zar and Shanna, as I think that's pretty much one big-toothed cat short of all the prominent Savage Land characters.

* in mainstream comics news I didn't get by following a near-random link from a vanity search, the talented Simon Gane will be doing a short arc on the Northlanders comic. That should be fun to look at it.

* the Graphic NYC guys are re-purposing some of their material and adding more with the final result a history of comics due out in Spring 2012.

* the always-amusing Mike Dawson will publish his well-regarded webcomic Troop 142 through Secret Acres this Fall.

* the promising Theo Ellsworth appears to be working on a potential new ongoing.

* the publishers Nobrow and Adhouse are teaming up to bring you the first volume of Jesse Moynihan's Forming.

* finally, Alex Cahill writes in with news that the fate of a third Poison The Cure as of this moment lies in the hands of its Kickstarter status, detailed in full here.

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While this column deals in formal publishing news, forthcoming publications are also tracked in the Crystal Ball section of this site.

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