Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* over at Diversity In YA, Jen Wang and First Second announce 2016's The Prince And The Dressmaker, with a look at some art.

* the small-press publishing house Sparkplug Comic Books will debut Ebin Lee's A Wretch Like Me: Sad/Black/Ugly/Queer at this year's Short Run in late October. It is described and images are shown through that link. I'm always happy to see people debut work at something other than the top five shows.

* the very talented Roman Muradov writes about future projects on the occasion of his most recent work becoming Ignatz-nominated.

* this looks like it could be a lot of fun: King Features Syndicate has announced it will celebrate its 75th anniversary by making a 16-page broadsheet stand-alone that can be inserted into newspapers. That should be fun to see.

* Sunday Press Books provides a look at some of the pages that will be assembled into glorious White Boy books by mid-Fall.

* Leah Hayes was in Columbus yesterday evening and told the audience at Kafe Kerouac that her Not Funny Ha Ha had sold out and would be back on the market with a second printing (and cover tweaks) this October. I would assume there will be another publicity push for the book then, too, to remind us of its return to market. If Hayes is appearing in your town in the next several days you should seek her out and buy one of her tour copies. Looks like the first issue of the comic-book serial version of Hip Hop Family Tree sold out as well. Which I guess means all Fantagraphics titles will be four words now.

* this is a pretty old-fashioned character profile of the "hot new character find of 2015" variety, but it is worth keeping tabs on Marvel and DC as they diversify their hero and primary villain roster to include more characters that young women (or fans in general whose tastes are broud enough) might be interested in reading.

* the legendary Paul Pope gives us an idea as to what's in his Batman: Year 100 hardover out in about eight weeks.

* finally, Peter Bagge will have another collection at Dark Horse starting in February 2016: Founding Fathers Funnies.


 
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