Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the cartoonist Gerry Alanguilan tweets that his Elmer will be published in a French-language edition.

* DC has 2010 plans for its 1978 Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali book, which is one hell of a cultural document and a not-bad 1970s Superman adventure besides. I always liked the way Neal Adams drew Muhammad Ali making his knockout prediction; my memory is that that was as effective a sequence as Adams ever designed, although I could be overstating things in my head. I've also always been convinced there's money to be had in a poster of Ali beating the pee out of Kal-El there.

* DC's big news of the last few weeks is that they'll be doing a Green Lantern-centered event series called Brightest Day to follow up its current, successful, Green Lantern-centered event series Blackest Night. There's always talk from devoted fans about "event fatigue," but if such fatigue exists it certainly hasn't shown up in the sales figures where it would have to: in comparison to a strategy focusing on regular series without an "event" to unite them. I guess there's an interesting sidenote or two to be had here that such a decision was made without a formal publisher at the company, and that this seems to be more of the same kind of thing despite the recent changes up top, which some thought/hoped/wished might bring a flurry of new publishing strategies not retrenchment into same-old, same-old.

* our own Bart Beaty was apparently one of those responsible for bringing a new English translation of Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books into being.

* I was happy to hear from Oliver East that Darryl Cunningham's Psychiatric Tales, soon to be released in the UK by Blank Slate, has been purchased for publication in 2011 in North America by Bloomsbury. I like that work and Cunningham's work generally, so that's great news. I would also imagine it's good news for other smaller-press projects in the UK in that it might make it more possible to be considered for publication elsewhere in a similar fashion.

* finally, I am likely the last to tell you that work has begun on a third volume of Casanova. I have a hunch based on past statements that the anticipated continuation of the series may be in something other than the slimline format of fewer pages/reduced cost that the first two did, but there's plenty of time between now and when the book comes out to confirm.


 
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