Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* here's some unfortunate and potentially distressing news: AdHouse has canceled FCHS, a title by Vito Delsante and Rachel Friere that seemed as if it would be a straight-forward fiction work of the kind of which comics doesn't see enough, because of low sales. I hope they find a second life for it, perhaps as a more high-profile on-line project. They should certainly be 1-Day mailing the Viz people, too.

* I don't read the series and was barely familiar with the television show, but Bill Willingham seems like a pretty good match for IDW's Angel title. Or one of them, if they have more than one going on.

* you ever get news that you feel bad you didn't know already, but you're so happy about its substance that you don't care? That's how I feel to learn that Big Fun has continued to publish and the last two issues have it looks like solo-featured the Frank Robbins-era Scorchy Smith. (thanks, Rodrigo Baeza)

* the next Marvel event series will be called Siege and will be written by Brian Bendis.

* as expected, Scott Stantis' newspaper strip Prickly City has returned to the Chicago Tribune following Stantis moving to the Tribune to take up the paper's long-neglected editorial cartoonist banner.

* the Paul Grist title Jack Staff is being rebranded and relaunched as The Weird World Of Jack Staff. I have no idea what that means, but I imagine you can find out in this article.

* the prominent blogger Brigid Alverson has apparently added a webcomics web site to her linkblogging duties.

* I don't usually write about French-language comics in this column, but the American Splendor series planned by Editions Çà Et Là look awfully cool. There are going to be three volumes of about 200 pages each, stretching from 1976 to 2002 with a lot of stuff reprinted that didn't make North American collections.

* speaking of the French-language market, it's about to experience the dropping of a new Asterix volume, the last few of which have sold extremely well even given the standards set by the series overall. There's really nothing like this kind of event book in American comics publishing. This book will be tied in directly to various Asterix at 50 celebration efforts, and there's an initial print run of three million.

* a new comics-related message board, BeyondTheBleed.com, debuted on Saturday. Details here.

* here's more good news: Mike Dawson and company have put every issue of the humor title Gabagool on-line.

* speaking of which, the cartoonist Randy Reynaldo is putting three 1980s-era installments of his long-running Rob Hanes Adventure on-line.

* details have emerged as to how DC Comics is going to handle the upcoming, oversized Wednesday Comics collection.

* there's going to be an anthology set in David Petersen's Mouse Guard universe featuring work by creators other than Petersen. I still feel that whole Mouse Guard enterprise is a sleeping giant, but I feel a little bit less that way about it every year.

* the cartoonist Darryl Cunningham updates us on the last legs of work to be done on his forthcoming Psychiatric Tales. In similar news, only this time link-swiped from Sean Collins, we get a clue as to progress on forthcoming Fantagraphics projects by Johnny Ryan and Megan Kelso.

* if I understand this post correctly, DC is going to resurrect some canceled series to tie into their Blackest Night event series. That's kind of cute, actually.

* finally, James Kochalka's American Elf added a character in a way that doesn't involve anyone getting pregnant: a cat, Nooko.


 
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