June 5, 2017
Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News
By Tom Spurgeon
* this column isn't meant to deal with work that's already published, but I failed to learn before recently that
John Porcellino planned to publish a collection of Jenny Zervakis' Strange Growths comics from the 1990s. He's done so now. Zervakis is right up there with David Lasky in terms of great 'zine-conscious cartoonists of the Pacific Northwest that flowered during the decade and haven't received their full due since then. Her comics intrigue and remain an obvious influence on cartoonists like Porcellino, even though he's definitely a peer and not someone that followed her. I plan on picking up a copy this year, and hope you'll consider it, too. That link has a bunch of pages for you to see if it's your kind of thing.
*
this looks like a series to track.
* I don't have a link for this one, but when Marvel did one of their line-wide relaunches a few years back I decided I'd follow a few titles to have that experience of going to the store and reading some series the way most consumers might. I chose five. Last week at the shop I realized all of those titles -- two of which were critically successful -- are now either canceled or have moved past their original creator teams to something I don't recognize as creative continuity. That seems
rough to me, and makes television look vastly more stable during their so-called current Wild West period.
* finally, I always hesitate to make much of Amazon.com listing other than general intention to publish, as so much changes from initial listings, but there are some now in 2018 that interested me on a last look around: the
Mignola-drawn World Of Krypton book, a release of
Ed Brubaker-written material for Vertigo, Paul Tumey
collecting screwball comics for LOAC, a more realistic publishing date for
the second Ferris book, Box Brown's
Kaufman book and
the Joe Casey/Ladronn Cable material. I don't think we stop getting good comics all the time.
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