Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* Top Shelf quietly announced their Spring season last week, or at least they announced it quietly enough it escaped my attention until now. Campbell Whyte combines the day-after-school and slip-into-fantasy-world subgenres in Home Time. That cover is very attractive. There's also a Nate Powell Omnibox on the way; this seems analogous to what they've done with the Eddie Campbell material, getting the work a second run on the marketplace with a box-set slipcover presentation. Everything Powell does is of interest.

* the family Allred are behind a forthcoming series using a bunch of minor DC Jack Kirby characters, with the focus on Forager, The Bug. It's always nice and also sad when DC comics characters are employed, because they're usually great characters and you worry about the necessity of trotting them out again.

* Mark Waid takes on an expanded role at Archie. That seems a wise choice for both writer and publisher; Waid's done the core older-reader soap opera version of the Archie book for a while now.

* finally, Scott McCloud writes about his forthcoming book and how it will have an effect on his public profile. But it's on here for the forthcoming book part.


 
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