Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* you can't always trust far-frontier Amazon.com listings, but it's 3:24 AM and I gotta run with something in the arts/alt category. I sure hope Fantagraphics is doing a collection of cartoons that appeared in The Realist. That was one of the treasures of the 20th Century, that publication, and I'm not all that familiar with the best of its cartooning. I know the famous Wood "everyone at Disney having sex" illustration, and I know the Bhob Stewart cartoons, but that's about it. Of all the joys in the world with which I'm familiar, I may be most familiar with finding out about new comics and cartooning that I haven't seen before. The line-up sounds terrific.

* Josh Cotter is close to finishing the first volume of his comeback effort Nod Away.

* the talented cartoonist Noelle Stevenson announced last week she'd be taking a step back from the full extent of her current duties with buzztastic series Lumberjanes.

* Steve Bissette writes about a forthcoming project. The world can always use some more Steve Bissette, in any form he wishes to work.

* there's a lot of superhero news out there, mostly driven by Marvel as they every-few-days announce a book that will spring to life or spring back to life following their "Secret Wars." I thought we already knew that an all-female A-Force title would survive the Secret Wars event, but maybe that hadn't been made official until last week. Marvel has a lot of pretty good female characters that could use some time on the page no matter how it comes to them. This article ponders the return of the Spider-Gwen comic with the same creative team, but also dwells on what this might for the layered "universe" in which the book exists. Or not.

* Mr. Richard Sala would like to remind you that Violenzia will be here soon.

* Zainab Akhtar informs us that a big collection of the Freddy Lombard work is on the way. That should be freakishly lovely.

* finally, behold the final cover for the new Abrams edition, content much reworked, of Derf Backderf's Trashed.


 
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