Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* someone finally did us all the favor of tracking down and scanning in the preview image for Maurice Vellekoop's forthcoming My Three Parents, to be published by Pantheon. They were giving them out at TCAF, where I believe the project was officially announced (it may have been formally announced in PW; I'm not sure). Thank you, FPI Blog.

* article in the New York Times yesterday about the future of Vertigo. Six new series will be launched in the Fall, with four of them discussed in that article. As is typical with a NYT piece concerning DC Comics, it feels more like a publicity-driven effort than publishing news, although there is a stab at some sales analysis. Here's the DC PR that spells out the series in better detail. I was actually a little confused on my first read of the NYT article what they were actually announcing despite the tone of the article being very announcement-oriented, so I'm happy for that DC PR follow-up; there's still a discrepancy between that PR saying "here are the two more series" and then announcing three, but that will probably be fixed by the time this rolls out. Nice to see Emily Carroll getting work with, well, anyone; she's very talented. Lee Bermejo seems poised to be successful with this kind of work, too.

* Melissa Mendes is putting together a Friday Night Lights fanzine. The good thing about doing comics for an FNL 'zine is that no matter how terrible your football scenes are, they can't be worse than the ones from the show.

* John Byrne repurposes Star Trek photos.

* three news books are coming from the Toon Books line in August/September: Patrick Eats His Peas & Other Stories, Geoffrey Hayes (August 6); Otto's Backwards Day, Frank Cammuso/Jay Lynch (August 6); The Big Wet Balloon, Liniers (September 10). All three will retail at $12.95. I think Geoffrey Hayes is the belle of the Toon Books ball.

* the Daniel Clowes Reader has a tumblr going in support of its publication. That should be a blast.

* totally missed that Mike Diana has a new boxed set out. I don't have any idea exactly what's in there, but I do like some of Diana's work -- I thought it was super hit and miss and sometimes spotty as opposed to the standard 1990s take of "It's deplorable but I support his right to do it."

* ComicsAlliance previews The Mysterious Strangers, from Oni.

* Action Lab Entertainment has picked up The Garlicks.

* finally, this is the first preview I've seen for the forthcoming Matt Fraction/Howard Chaykin project Satellite Sam. Here's another way they're doing promotion on that project. At least I'm assuming that's why that's up; it's not like there needs to be an official reason. Anyone, click through to that first one to justify me nicking some contextual art.


 
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