Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* this kind of pushes the boundaries of comics publishing news, since the book is out in Chicago in like four days, but I was surprised to see Sky In Stereo #2 in my mailbox a mere three days after I wondered out loud, "What happened to Sky In Stereo #2. I liked the comic a lot; I hope people give it a chance.

* so I guess if we ran one "this book is coming out this weekend" we can run two: Secret Acres is going to release Sar Shahar's Sequential Vacation #2 at the CAKE show aka "Summer Young Cartoonist Hot Weather Good Times Makeout-a-thon." That'll be 32 pages, $6 and you can track it down other places using the ISBN number of 9780988814905.

* it looks like Connie Sun's comics will apparently be carried in issues of Brooklyn Rail, or at least have a chance of appearing there after this initial publication.

* there will be another Avengers title called Mighty Avengers. This article suggests that makes six. I figure that fanbase probably knows the differences intimately. I know I sure don't. In fact, with a lot of these Marvel titles, that they all have similar names and can't keep the same creative teams makes me buy other stuff.

* speaking of Marvel, Graeme McMillan notes there was no bump in Iron Man book sales despite the billion-dollar-plus movie. I know that it's difficult for comics companies to line up a book with a movie like that, but it seems like Marvel could have pushed the five Matt Fraction-written Iron Man books with all of the movies together at once. I think there were five. But whatever that series of books was.

* here's a preview of the forthcoming Sean Phillips art book.

* here's a piece at Robot 6 on the positive case for Vertigo; I didn't exactly take the Karen Berger profile as a negative case for Vertigo moving forward, but I get the thesis. I guess the interesting thing to me isn't so much genre but if they see the line's historically dominant format as remaining viable: the lengthy but limited, ambitious creator-driven series.

* Michael Cavna reports that Fort Knox will run in the Washington Post in the slot Doonesbury will temporarily vacate so that Garry Trudeau can work on his television show. As olds may recall, the initial Doonesbury hiatus several decades back is what helped launch Bloom County -- unless I'm severely mistaken about that.

* finally, a traditional publishing news story (thank God): Conundrum has signed the intriguing-looking Photobooth: A Biography from Meags Fitzgerald, to be published in Spring 2014. Please click through on that link a) for more information b) for this being a straight-up publishing news story.


 
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