Bundled, Tossed, Untied, Stacked: Publishing News

By Tom Spurgeon

* not sure when the book bearing this lovely cover is coming out, but I always keep an eye on Jim Blanchard's web site and try to see him at Short Run.

* this article from Mark Evanier has two pieces of publishing news in it: fifth volume of the Pogo series in the next six to eight weeks, his big Kirby book perhaps around Christmas 2019. One reason I'd love to see the Kirby book because I think there are three or four other Kirby books authors are waiting on doing until they see Evanier's.

* more signs of Marvel's publishing strategy floundering come in this piece about a random X-Men title having a name asserted to be more important than the others, being made weekly to start -- with all the headaches for retailers that comes with that -- and teasing death as a narrative emphasis. I am grateful that some nice people that work as artists will likely get a ton of variant cover work that one suspects will come with this effort, but this whole thing just looks like burnout. The problem is we all know these tactics work to the point that the publisher can move on to the next set of external tactics. But beyond that?

* great catch-up on two projects from the mighty Nina Bunjevac, including some astounding-looking art.

* a protected post by Drew Friedman has alerted me to a forthcoming career retrospective volume featuring William Stout. What a fun artist and inspiring career.

* finally, a look at the Jay Lynch anthology coming out for Christmas, the latest in Patrick Rosenkranz' formidable line of works about the underground greats.


 
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