Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Conundrum Press hopes to have a Britt Wilson book out for this year's TCAF.

* congratulations to the Library Of American Comics on their fifth anniversary at the end of this year and their 50th (yow!) book this month, the first Steve Canyon volume. (I think that's the library's promotional image; if not, my apologies to Rich Johnston.)

* a couple of recent comments on posts had publishing news in them. Denis Kitchen mentions here he's co-writing a biography of Al Capp. Dean Mullaney says here that a Red Barry collection is in the works from the Library Of American Comics. Related: the writer Matt Fraction tweeted he's working on a second book for Marvel's Icon imprint.

* the CBLDF and Boom! are teaming up on a Howard Cruse comic for Free Comic Book Day.

* I suppose if we have to have more Popeye, Roger Langridge writing it would be about as good a hire as one can imagine.

* the Brian Bendis/Alex Maleev run on Marvel's Moon Knight character will end at issue #12. I didn't read anything other than the first issue, but I remember that one being pretty weird.

* Graeme McMillan reminds us that we were supposed to see some more Marvelman comics by now, and asks that Marvel revive its relationship with the Micronauts license.

* hey, new Destructor.

* finally, it's been a while since I stopped by Amazon for what used to be fairly frequent double-checks at what's coming out in the months ahead. There was a sweet spot there at Amazon for a time that came after they added the comics and graphic novels designation but before their search engine allowed home-sellers to put their books on top of the list with dates like 2019 for whatever comic book they're trying to sell. Those days are gone, of course, but if you go to page nine or so you of a search you start to see books from actual publishers. I'm way behind on my publishing news, so a lot of this may already be known to everyone but me. For instance, I wasn't all the way aware that Stephanie McMillan's The Beginning Of The American Fall was going to have a book version from Seven Stories. I bet I knew and forgot that Francoise Mouly was going to be the editor on the next Best American Comics -- if that's what this listing means -- which is interesting in that Mouly may be the first publisher asked to do that. September 1 dates for both the Raina Telgemeier and Kazu Kibuishi books probably mean that they'll be out sometime that Fall rather than on exactly that day, but you never know. Still, that's a couple of big-hitters in that segment of the market. Finally, I think I was completely unaware of a collection for Stumble Inn -- in the tradition of my not understanding the joke behind Andy Capp and The Lockhorns titles until I was 30, I just got the gag in Herriman's title.


 
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