Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* a limited-edition over-sized Olivier Schrauwen comic featuring the Mowgli character? Yes. Yes. Yes. (via David Aja) I posted that last, vaguely worded sentence a couple of weeks ago and kept delaying doing the column. In the meantime, a very thorough Zainab Akhtar reported through ComicsAlliance that an English translation of that book will come out from Retrofit in 2015 as Mowgli's Mirror. I agree that's a great get for them. You should read her article, though.

* the great Gilbert Hernandez shared his immediate publishing plans with CBR:

"Dark Horse is going to reprint another book I did for Vertigo, Grip. Then they're going to do a reprint of Girl Crazy. That's been out of print. I don't have any plans with Drawn and Quarterly. Fantagraphics will have the new Love & Rockets -- as ever. Maria M. Book 2 was pushed back a little bit. I had planned that to be at the end of this year, but it's going to be early next year. I might have another graphic novel out at the end of the year that I plan to do. That depends if I can squeeze it out."

He notes in that same interview that Loverboys is also out this year, from Dark Horse, and the interview's main focus is the just-dropped Bumperhead. My understanding is that the Love & Rockets volume might be pushed into 2015. That series if of course a gift, and however long it takes for a new one to come out is worth it.

* I hope you didn't miss the Koyama Press Spring 2015 line-up announcement yesterday. It's four books, three by Koyama regulars, as much as that boutique publisher has been able to develop a standard roster in a short time. It's here -- lots of covers.

* although D+Q gave that major presentation on their next few years at this year's Comic-Con International -- which I remember mostly for them Tracy Hurren and Julia Pohl-Miranda doing trivia questions and then immediately apologizing for them being too hard -- somehow it seems more real when you see a bunch of talked-about books on the top of an Amazon.com publication date search. Their late Spring/early Summer looks ridiculous, with the SuperMutant Magic Academy book, the Melody and their 25-year special. There's even new Marc Bell, Anders Nilsen and another Anna & Froga.

* I actually went to Amazon.com because I was surprised when a copy of the NBM English-language translation of the Kerascoet & Hubert book Beauté showed up in my mailbox a few months before I would have guessed -- they didn't do anything, the months are just slipping away from me. That one's super good-looking, by the way. Anyway, it made me poke around and see if I was missing anything else on the horizon from NBM and I'm not sure I all the way knew they're continuing with their translations of the various Donjon series. I really enjoy those books.

* finally, this looks the final cover for Dylan Horrocks' new work, Sam Zabel And The Magic Pen. There had been some going back-and-forth over what that final cover might be, or at least that's what I recall. That should be out starting next month and rolling into the new year, depending on the country involved. I look forward to seeing it in print and reading it all at once.


 
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