July 15, 2008
Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon
A recurring column assembling all the straight-up publishing news -- what's coming out, who's doing it, when you'll see it, what it will look like -- into one place:
* manga giant Viz
is seeking original comics work.
* new publisher
Blank Slate has announced
four forthcoming books, in order of their likely appearance:
Trains Are… Mint Book Two: Proper go Well High, Oliver East;
Sparky O’Hare -- Master Electrician, Mawil;
Slaapkoppen, Randall C; Untitled Book on European Folk Tales and Fairy Stories, Stuart Kolakovic. Blank Slate made an auspicious debut this year with works by East and Mawil.
* in case you missed it,
AdHouse Books announced their Fall/Winter
here, while Boom! has launched an on-line comics initiative featuring older comics content.
* the prominent 1990s self-publisher Martin Wagner is assembling
a Hepcats mini-comic, and has posted
two pages to
his Flickr page. Hopefully, it will be out in time for it to be read during commercial breaks for the
90210 premiere. (thanks, Chris Rice)
* so we know that Paul Pope
won't be in
The Best American Comics 2008, guest-edited by
Lynda Barry with the support and assistance of new series editors
Matt Madden and
Jessica Abel. Who will be in there? Here's a list of who you'll see in the release, due October 8:
Graham Annable,
David Axe and Steve Olexa,
T. Edward Bak,
Alison Bechdel,
Nick Bertozzi,
Lilli Carre,
Martin Cendreda,
Shawn Cheng and
Sara Edward Corbett,
Eleanor Davis,
Derf,
Rick Geary,
Matt Groening,
Eric Haven,
Jaime Hernandez,
Kaz,
Michael Kupperman,
Joseph Lambert,
Evan Larson,
Jason Lutes,
Cathy Malkasian,
John Mejias,
Sarah Oleksyk,
Kevin Pyle,
Seth,
Chris Ware and
Gene Yang. If the advance reading copy is any indication, the works will be published in that same alphabetical order, although maybe that's the way it's always done with these books.
* speaking of line-ups, Jacob Covey
has released the list of contributors to the art book
Beasts 2.
* it may be that I'm the only one that didn't know this yet, but the (not just) comics publishing house
PictureBox is doing a major retrospective/art book with
John Kricfalusi, out in 2009. (information and picture somewhere on
this non-specific link)
* this only matters to those subscribing to
DailyInk.com, but their serialization of
Roy Crane's
Buz Sawyer returned last week after what may have been an almost half-year absence due to a lack of digitized strips.
*
add Goats to the list of webcomics
that will now see a print-book iteration with a respectable imprint, in this case
Villard. Although a couple of the blog postings I read about the move made it seem like it was gathered news, Villard basically sent word out late last week in the form of a press release.
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