Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* here's something I hadn't noticed in the recent coverage of the new Asterix volume tied into that character's 50th anniversay: Albert Uderzo wants volumes to continue after he dies. That article is worth it for Hugues Dayez's brutal critical appraisal of the later volumes. Tell us what you really think, Mr. Dayez.

* C. Spike Trotman is funding her second self-published project Poorcraft through a Kickstarter page. The Templar, Arizona cartoonist and her Iron Circus Comics is teaming with Diana Nock for a lengthy disquisition on options for stretching one's spending cash to, says the PR, "teach readers how to live well on less, expanding their options and freeing them from the paycheck-to-paycheck living that defines so many modern lives."

* in the announcement this week likely to cover the most future books, Fantagraphics sent out a release that they will partner with editor/designer and former full-time Fanta staffer on a series of seven new book collections collecting classic material. Sadowski's previous books with the company are Supermen: The First Wave Of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941, B. Krigstein and B. Krigstein Comics. The new books, to be released twice a year, will start with Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics Of the 1950s in collaboration with historian John Benson (June 2010). The second book will be on Alex Toth's work at Standard Comics in the early '50s (to be released Fall 2010). Subsequent books will cover Jack Cole's Golden Age work 1937-1941, EC artists at other comics companies, Basil Wolverton's science ficition and horror comics from 1938 to 1955 and a Dick Briefer Frankenstein book.

* the comic series Fear Agent has one more story arc to go before it concludes. Said arc starts publication in serial form early next year.

* one might say that the big publishing news of the week is DC in partnership with Stephen King on a book. I'm told it's a bit different than the King/Marvel partnership in that King will be writing his own character for a few issues after which point the publication will continue with another of its launch characters in a solo slot. Anyway, I hope it's good.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com provides more information on IDW's Archie collections.

* despite its recent deal with Nickelodeon for the overall property, Mirage has kept the right to do a certain number of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics and will exercise a portion of that right through May of next year for sure.

* the strip cartoonist Brooke McEldowney is preparing to release two more book collections of his on-line strip Pibgorn.

* the writer Clifford Meth sent an e-mail to tell me that The Invincible Gene Colan, a project to benefit the great American mainstream comic book creator whose name is in the title, will be published by Marvel in February. You can track its progress here, I bet. I have an essay in the book.

* I also wrote the introduction for this book, if anyone's interested. That's right, this blog is all about my awesome accomplishments from now on.

* okay, I'm tapped. Back to regular news.

* hey, look what Larry Marder's holding.

* Kazu Kibuishi says he's getting into the deep end of the production schedule for Amulet Vol. 3, which is nice given how well that book's first two volumes have done.

* the great PictureBox Inc. has a bunch of new items for sale. If that link doesn't work, the post announcing those items should be somewhere findable here.

* finally, Kurt Busiek is as surprised as anyone that a new trade of his work on the Iron Man character has been collected in trade form, and runs through some of the reasons such a book might be coming out now.


 
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