October 21, 2009
Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon
* although it was noted in a couple of articles about aid to Filipino flood victims, I wanted to note in this column that
Gerry Alanguilan has collected his wonderfully odd and heartfelt self-published comic book series Elmer into trade format. It's available from Alanguilan and from a few really, really full-service comics shops around the world.
* the Robert Kirkman-written
Astounding Wolf-Man is going to end its run with issue #25. That was an Image title written by Kirkman and drawn by co-creator Jason Howard that never caught on to the extent his two other series written by Kirkman (
Invincible,
Walking Dead) with the publisher have found audiences. It also stayed around longer than most.
* I know should have written something about
the re-launched Valiant Comics, but every time I start I have to go lie down for 20 minutes.
*
according to this interview, the great, pioneering arts cartoonist Edmond Baudoin has applied for a grant that may allow him to do a comic on the drug-related violence in and around Juarez, Mexico. Whatever Baudoin wants to do is of interest, but as someone who used to eat lunch twice a year and go shopping with his mom in a Mexican border town where the mayor was just burned to death, I can assure you that the Juarez story is a fascinating and horrifying one.
* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com
reports that Marvel is going to adapt the first volume of Stephen King's
Dark Tower series, after previously adapting flashback work from later volumes in the series and producing new material related to the series.
* from the same venue comes a detail or two about
how DC plans to orient some of its books to match with big-media presentations.
* the strip feature
In The Sticks is making its Go.comics debut with a heavy in-development component. That makes a lot of sense someone would try that, actually.
*
that looks quite lovely. You know, if Fantagraphics only published that
Humbug collection and this book in the calendar year, that would be a very good calendar year.
* finally,
more from Alan Moore on is forthcoming Dodgem Logic.
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