Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Penguin Books India, perhaps the biggest English-language publisher in that giant country full of English-language reading people who many feel would love to read some great comics if more could be provided them, is going to publish some comics works aimed at kids. It's a start.

* I'm not sure how I managed to miss this, but in the comments to the latest mental illness-related comic posted to Darryl Cunningham's site, he reveals that these will be published by Blank Slate Press in February 2010. That's great news, and I look forward to the book.

* here's something you don't see anymore: a massively long, comic strip storyline intended for The Phantom. That's a lot of walking, even for a ghost.

* otbp: Emberley Galaxy, a tribute book to the illustrator featuring both comics and artwork by many of your favorite alt-comix talents, has finally been published.

* a new hardcover edition of the award-winning and extremely handsome-looking Le Sommet des Dieux will hit French-language markets from Kana in December.

* the illustrator and one-time strip cartoonist John Kovaleski has an all-ages book out, Great Scott: A Day In The Life.

* I take it from this announcement that there is a Liberty Comics #2 in the planning stages. That's the Image Comics book to benefit the CBLDF. I don't know if this was widely known or not -- not widely known between my ears, anyway.

* this press release for Harvey Pekar's webcomic initiative at Smith, to be called The Pekar Project, does no one any favors by comparing the artists involved to all-time jazz greats, but I look forward to seeing what the significant comics writer will do with the immediacy of on-line media and a regular ongoing gig like this one.

* the anthology Funny Aminals will debut at SPX next month.

* the good folks at L'Association are doing a limited run of an all-in-one La Guerre d'Alan with the lovely cover shown at top.

* finally, that DC is trying to re-launch the Red Circle superhero characters is hardly news: that's been out there since May or so I think? While I don't really trawl the DC news blogs, I have noticed that Red Circle related PR is a part of their daily grind now. The thing I don't get is why there's an expectation that any of this stuff will succeed? I mean, I guess it could, I don't know anything about publishing superhero comics and DC Comics does, but what I'm not seeing is some sort of general theory as to how they expect success to find this project. And you usually see that. If anyone knows of a "we did very well with X, so our first thought was that there was room to do more comics like that and so pursued Y" statement out there, let me know. In the meantime, enjoy some cool-looking superhero designs in action, I guess.


 
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