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* so I guess someone's doing a complete Wally Wood Galaxy illustrations book mid-year. That should be something to behold.

* just as I was putting this up, First Second announced their Spring 2012 catalog:

*Baby's in Black, Arne Bellstorf
*The Moon Moth, Jack Vance and Humayoun Ibrahim
*Marathon, Boaz Yakin and Joe Infurnari
*Bloody Chester, JT Petty and Hilary Florido
*Victory, Carla Jablonski and Leland Purvis
*Mastering Comics, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden

I guess it's worth noting that they're doing the Bellstorf Beatles book; that thing looks really pretty. I was told that the Bellstorf book's deal with a small UK publisher was enough to keep any US publisher from getting it; the person that told me that was apparently wrong. Here's the PDF for more information -- MCPG_Spring12_FirstSecond.pdf

* this is not comics, but cartoonist/essayist Tim Kreider passed along the cover to his book of essays due out this year. I'd link to it, but I can't find a direct link. It should be good, though.

* Darryl Cunningham recently ran previews pages from a couple of 2012 works. Nick Mullins has 15 pages up from Defrost.

* I keep on forgetting to note that Mark Anderson has relaunched his Andertoons. Hey, Mark Anderson relaunched his Andertoons.

* the group blog Robot 6 ran a bunch of covers featuring 2012 books expected from Koyama Press.

* Floating World has announced a new work by Jesse McManus: Violence Valley. There's a preview.

* Jeremy Eaton has a new project that he's rolling out on Facebook. Also over on Facebook, Steve Rude gives details on a new Nexus collaboration with Mike Baron.

* this was another one widely covered right when it happened: the McSweeney's children's book line will include a few alt-comics stalwarts. You've also likely seen this link to PR announcing an iPad-focused iteration of an Eddie Campbell work. Ditto this piece on the Adventure Time comic book ending up at KaBOOM!.

* Rich Tommaso crushed his Kickstarter goals on that first Sam Hill book project.

* Bhob Stewart posted an announcement mid-December about a Russ Cochran-directed monthly comic that will drink deep from the well of the Billy Ireland holdings.

* Chris Ryall has the first peek of imagery from the next Darwyn Cooke Parker book.

* the new book by Alison Bechdel will drop in a 100K initial printing, Calvin Reid reports.

* I don't agree with the general thrust of this analysis of Marvel's latest move to use comic book stores to generate a database of customers through which they can directly sell their comics in digital form -- I don't think it's automatically about the death knell of print, I mean; at the very least I don't think that it's a given -- but the fact that Marvel seems to be trying to start a way to directly sell digital is worth noting all by itself on a ton of levels. It's also always worth noting that the last time Marvel assumed it could cut out middlemen because their work was so awesome they could sell it itself, we got the 1990s Heroes World debacle, a bankrupt Marvel, an industry reeling for several years, and massive collateral damage. So everyone should maybe stare at Marvel for a while like they're one of those huge, dangerous, disintegrating beasts from a Miyazaki movie. Just in case.

* hey, a new comics project by Gabby Gamboa.

* Sequential catches one of a few publishing news stories one might pull from the CR Holiday Interview series, namely that a new edition of Chester Brown's Ed The Happy Clown is imminent. Other ones that came out during the series include Rina Piccolo's announcement she'll be ending the traditional strip-style webcomic phase of her Velia, Dear in favor of more involved stories and that Jeff Smith has settled on a creative project to follow his RASL with RASL is set to conclude approximately around issue #15. Given Smith's endorsement of serial storytelling in that same interview, it seems likely this will mean another comic book series as opposed to a one-off or stand-alone book project.

* one of the reasons I wish Marvel weren't firing through their "season one" concepts the way they seem to be firing through them is that there's some creative potential there, particularly with series that are at this point pretty disconnected from elements of their initial issues, like the Cold War-soaked Incredible Hulk. I mean, I get that companies like that make big plans and execute them, but I think they sometimes squander opportunities for that kind of execution.

* Richard Thompson provides three rough sketches on the way to the final sketch for the next Cul De Sac book. It's been a while since a new book for that strip, so that's very exciting.

* so I guess the writer Mark Millar is consolidating his various comic book plans into kind of a mini-Image thing for the next phase of his career. I guess that's reasonably interesting; no one has worked the industry like Millar the last decade or so. Graeme McMillan writes about Millar's spin on high-concept, although I think that in comics execution is always overlooked, and Millar does some things really well that a lot of writers don't right now.

* Larry Marder updates us as to all things Beanworld.

* the forthcoming Bell/Vassallo Secret History Of Marvel Comics has doubled in planned size. I'm looking forward to that one.

* finally, Derik A Badman pulled out a couple of pieces of publishing news from this interview with Loïc Néhou of Ego Comme X: 1) they've doubled their commission to authors on on-line book sales, and on-line book sales have doubled. They plan to publish Fabrice Neaud's Journal series in English via a print-on-demand initiative if a deal with an American publisher falls through. It'd be swell to have those book any way they come out. Thanks, Derik.

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