Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

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* Nobrow will be doing a series of albums with Luke Pearson starting with Hilda And The Midnight Giant. By the way, that's a first-rate publishing announcement.

* the artist Sean Phillips seems to be working on some sort of painted-page Conan project, I believe for whatever iteration of Savage Sword is being published right now. Count me in.

* when Fantagraphics announced its new EC initiative and its collection of Zap at CCI last summer, it blew some of their other announcements off of the map -- at least for me. With Amazon finally starting to list books from next summer, I notice that one of Fanta's is a Kim Thompson translated version of Lorenzo Mattotti's 2003 work with Jorge Zentner, Bruit du givre.

* speaking of Fantagraphics, I'm not sure if a date for this project had been publicly announced, come to think of it. It's not 100 percent guaranteed that they'll hit that date, but the various publishers working that part of comics have all been a lot more disciplined since their various, sustained moves into the bookstore market via prose distributors several years ago.

* Marvel not pursuing an OGN program makes little to no sense to me, because it's an obvious opportunity for them to diversify their bookstore offerings. This doesn't mean they won't have bookstore offerings, of course, or even what for them would be diverse ones -- the Oz and Stephen King efforts appear in comic book form first -- but I don't understand why the minimal investment of stand-alone books wouldn't be worth the effort for them. The Oz books even provide a template of the kind of comics-makers that would be perfectly suited to such projects. I also wonder if alarmists will read anything into this in terms of Marvel's long-range publishing plans. Of course, if you're an alarmist, by definition you sort of you read stuff into everything.

* then again, maybe Marvel's taking-their-ball-home announcement was in anticipation of this piece of news from DC. That seems right up the alley of what Marvel has been doing lately.

* Michael Avon Oeming shows off a page from a forthcoming Marvel/USO project.

* Rob Rodi will write a spin-off from that Kirby: Genesis project. I like Rodi's writing, and I was afraid for a while that he had come and gone in terms of comics writing opportunities.

* Alan Gardner tracks some recent newspaper drops and adds.

* Archie is going to bring back its superhero characters in a new title and via an aggressive Netflix-style subscription digital program. Always good to see another model for digital comics sales trotted out for a go.

* finally, this review of Illegal Batman In The Moon provides the service of letting many of us known that Ed Pinsent's follow-up to Illegal Batman is out there for downloading.

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