Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* still catching up, and my continued apologies.

* the lovely cover for the Mariko and Jillian Tamaki effort for next year, This One Summer, debuted with plenty of fanfare. That is that team's follow-up to Skim. First Second seems to be doing a good job of placing their publishing news announcements in various media sources.

* speaking of nice-looking covers, Tony Millionaire showed the drawing that will be used on the next Sock Monkey collection cover on his Facebook account.

* looks like the Jules Feiffer graphic novel due next year will have a late-summer release. It's interesting that my second thought whenever I see someone with a big book -- or at leat one that will draw attention -- my second thought is to what that might mean for potential convention and festival appearances.

* here's the cover to Ben Hatke's final Zita The Spacegirl book. I have friends with daughters and they greatly appreciate that series.

* Michael Cavna digs into the Washington Post's recent decision to drop Get Fuzzy to make way for the new, launched-extremely-well strip Wumo. At issue is the number of re-runs that creator Darby Conley employs -- something I wasn't aware of. An unspoken element of this is how the dialogue has changed regarding launched/dropped strips, the way that social media and the Internet more generally provides a different reactive snapshot to a change than letter-writing used to.

* finally, how in God's name did I miss out on news that IDW is going to do a collection of Jacky's Diary? Amazon.com has it listed -- albeit in the likeliest-to-move "December 31" listing -- so it must have been announced months ago. Please don't lose faith in me as I have just lost faith in me as a bringing of comics news, or at least balance that disappointment with the good word that book is coming out.


 
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