Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* okay, I hadn't quite gotten this before now. The color Masterplasty story out there from James Harvey is a prelude to a Blank Slate Books work called Zygote due in 2014. I hadn't picked up on that before.

* here's a Milo Manara cover for a forthcoming issue of Guardians Of The Galaxy featuring the "Angela" character directed to Marvel by Neil Gaiman. That isn't the weirdest sentence this site has ever produced, but proper-name-and-context wise it's right up there. I do like when they use artists like Manara for alternative covers like that because I can sort of see fans wanting that cover for the cover, as opposed to simply wanting the cover because it's rare. That's kind of a silly-looking character. Anyway, Neil Gaiman will contribute to that comic series' story featuring the character.

* and the equivalent to this project in English-language comics would be... nothing. There really is no easy equivalent to that one in English-language comics.

* the nice folks over at FPI Blog anticipate August releases. I like the post because their tastes are very much not my own, save for a few exceptions writer to writer.

* I"m sure I mentioned this somewhere, but one of the interesting publishing-news notes to come out of last week's Image Expo was that Walking Dead was going to do a bi-weekly storyline; another aspect to that story worth watching is that Walking Dead is hyping a storyline, which is something that dependable title rarely does. It was a year ago that its 100th issue came out and did oh-so-well, so there are certainly ways to move the dial with that book.

* here's a passionate piece from a UK-market focused cartoonist on the need for new kids comics following the failure-to-make-a-go-of-it status of the digital Dandy. I agree that there's probably an audience for this material; I'm just not sure it's an audience that will sustain a big-market, big-company, well-funded effort from the get-go without some ingenuity applied in terms of getting material into enough right hands.

* there are a number of new self-published and small press works newly available for sale at Spit And A Half. Domino Books is always adding existing material to its offerings as well.

* Rafael Albuquerque is to start doing art on the DC comic book Animal Man. That's an interesting artist.

* finally, this is a little more late and reactive than I'd ideally like to be in this column, but new Ted May is worth noting. Actually, I don't care if it's old Ted May. Ted May.


 
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