Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

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It's been a while since this column appeared, and my bookmarks go back several weeks. Please bear with me.

* not enough was made of Conundrum Press picking up Michel Rabagliati's Paul à Quebec for publication as The Song Of Roland. I'm not certain if there's any publishing story behind the move; I'm just glad to see more of that work in English.

* hey, here's First Second's Fall list, including new Sara Varon, the print publication of their on-line effort Zahra's Paradise and a new edition of Derek Kirk Kim's Same Difference, I guess this time without the "other stories." Speaking of First Second, they sold out of their first printing of Anya's Ghost.

* speaking of lists of books, PictureBox posted their Fall line-up a while ago as well.

* speaking of books going back to print, this is apparently also true of the Vertigo book Daytripper.

* I'm not sure that I saw this call for mini-comics from Michael Dowers repeated in a lot of media sources.

am looking for mini comic submissions for a new two-volume set of hardbound books to be published by Fantagraphics. This series will cover mini comics from the dawn of time (early 70's) to the present. Since Newave (1980’s) has already been covered, the main focus will be on the 1990's to the present although earlier minis will be covered too. The books will be the same size as the original Newave book (only more like 700 pages each) and will only reproduce whole mini comics that are 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 or smaller just like in the Newave book. (If you are concerned about the size of your submission contact me and we can talk about it). No digest sized comics or bigger will be accepted.

The two volumes are to be simply titled "Treasury of Mini Comics" Volumes one & two.

I am looking for contributors. I am looking for the best of the best. Any creator can send me their mini comics, disks, or photocopies to be considered for publication for this project. Or email me and send low-res jpegs to: brownfieldpress@hotmail.com.

Please send titles to: Michael Dowers 361 E. Birnie Slough Rd., Cathlamet , WA 98612.

If you want your material returned it is important to enclose return postage. Any mini comics that are kept will be placed in the Fantagraphics collection after the books are published. Also anybody sending actual mini comics will receive comics in trade from Brownfield press.

I really liked Dowers' collection of Newave minis, and if this is half as good it'd be worth trying to place work into it.

* Robot 6 passed along the line-up of this year's Treehouse Of Horror comic book about six weeks ago.

* Hermes Press is doing a collection of Agent 13 comics. Or republishing pre-existing graphic novel versions, I'm not sure. That property had its genesis in the old TSR Top Secret role-playing game, I believe.

* the writer Clifford Meth is developing a property with the NFL player Ovie Mughelli. That's too good a name for comics to let professional sports have it all to themselves.

* Fantagraphics has announced the line-up for its first EC book, Corpse On The Imjin collecting Harvey Kurtzman's war stories.

* I totally missed that Kid Koala has a new graphic novel on the immediate horizon.

* let me add my voice to the chorus of those noting something obvious: the forthcoming children's book Keep Our Secrets from Jordan Crane looks really cool.

* I have no history with the property, but thought that Archaia's work with the Fraggle Rock characters and milieu seemed sturdy enough when I read one. They're also doing reprints of the 1980s material.

* that proposed graphic novel Eric Dolphy was successfully funded on Kickstarter. A proposed Smiths-related anthology is a long way from its goal as of yet, albeit with plenty of days left to go.

* two Jack Kirby-related items of note. Master of all things Abstract Comics Andrei Molotiu is working on a book to benefit the Kirby Museum. Also, I apparently missed that Stan Taylor has been working on a book about the iconic cartoonist.

* Sean T. Collins notes and places into context panel news from San Diego that Gilbert Hernandez will be returning to his Palomar setting for the next issue of Love and Rockets.

* finally, Ryan Cecil Smith has brought the first issue of Two Eyes Of The Beautiful back into print.

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