Books I Didn’t Know Were Coming Out

This site could stand a lot of improvement in the way it presents publishing news. By publishing news, I mean being a reputable, dependable and easy to access source for information on forthcoming comics releases, not just doing the occasional hype-driven shout-out from the body of the blog. Doing the beginnings -- even the first half-hour -- of work in that direction yields an avalanche of interesting books that are coming out that caught me somewhat by surprise, and since it should be a while before the site's publishing news resources are up and running, I thought I'd share some of the easiest to find ones here.

Plus it's fun to daydream about comics that are coming out.

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For example, only through Jeff Smith's blog today did I learn about a forthcoming The Art of Bone book from Dark Horse. This should be worth getting because not only is Smith a really good artist, but his work on Bone seems stand-alone to me; I'm not aware of a lot of extra art, or where it might apply to the series, and I haven't seen a lot of his outside artwork, period.

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I knew about To Terra and Song for Apollo from Keiko Takemiya and Osamu Tezuka at Vertical. If you had phoned or e-mailed, I couldn't have told you about Andromeda Stories and MW, the offerings to follow, even though they're due this year.

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I've mentioned The Collectable Peanuts Box Set Classic Box Set, both for its re-presentation of some old, well-liked Peanuts-related books and its idiosyncratic way of spelling "collectible," but I somehow failed to notice the books come in a cardboard doghouse.

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Did you know Marvel was going to extend its Omnibus series back into their monster comics with a 400-plus page release Amazing Fantasy Omnibus Volume 1? Because I sure didn't.

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I also missed word that Fantagraphics is the publisher that will be doing Josh Simmons' long-awaited House. Simmons has shown flashes of brilliance in his comics thus far. Of the promising cartoonists under the age of 40, he may also be the most uneven. I have high hopes for this book.
 
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