Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the cover image for the Team Cul De Sac book was posted last week on Facebook. I like it.

* here's something straight from Angouleme via the on-the-ground reporting of Bart Beaty: Jean-Paul Gabilliet's biography of Robert Crumb is imminent. It's in French, but I can't think of an English-language one, or one in any other language. This sketchbook page is from Gabilliet's collection.

* I was happy to see Paul Duffield's next project get its desired funding. Rich Burlew was apparently getting close to record-breaking status with the amounts raked in for his when I initially prepared this article (last week), and has since gone on to obliterate all records for comics publishing fundraising. I mentioned this yesterday, but it's worth mentioning again. Hoo boy, that's a lot of money raised.

* Alan Gardner caught that Tom Batiuk has prepped a major archival collection of his Funky Winkerbean. I'd like to read the first few volumes of that, for sure.

* it looks like the next Julia Wertz book has been pushed back from May until later in 2012.

* Austin English shares more items being distributed through his Domino Books.

* Johanna Draper Carlson catches that Capstone is going to be doing a bunch of DC-related titles in hardcover for its targeted market. It may be that one day all the comics being done will be licensed out this way. Not saying it's likely, just possible. Draper Carlson also picked up on IDW's price-point and page count for that digital-first Transformers comic they're doing.

* the web site for the longtime newspaper industry bible Editor & Publisher looks different now.

* Brett Warnock is nice enough to share a call for submissions from the nice folks at Stripburger.

* Walt Simonson discusses a cover he did for an upcoming DC Comics book.

* a few thing stuck out for me while reading the print version of the Drawn and Quarterly spring catalog. They'll be doing softcover editions of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Pushman, Good-Bye and Abandon The Old In Tokyo in April to coincide with the release of Fallen Words. They're publishing Michael Cho, which I hadn't heard, I don't think. (They may have published him before; I don't remember.) And they're also continuing Aya, but in larger omnibus form, starting with the first three books (of six) into one volume. I had given up on seeing more Aya. You can get a PDF of that catalog here.

* the only thing that popped for me in the same way from First Second's paper version of its 2012 catalog is that massive Mark Siegel Sailor Twain collection coming out right in time for the New York Comic-Con, which is nice given that that's a show that doesn't necessarily spotlight a lot of author-first publishers and works. There was a bunch of stuff in that little catalog that I hadn't heard about, which is on me, so I'm grateful for the paper edition.

* Jamie Gambell is doing a free comic book offering in what may become the year of free comic book offerings.

* PW has a superhero-related column now.

* Quill and Quire adds its voice to those anticipating D+Q's Pippi Longstocking comics. Here's a short, link-post follow-up from the publisher. And here's another one.

* finally, there's nothing terribly surprising in this list of fall collections out from Vertigo. That's a lot of books... do they all sell? I also hadn't known about an original graphic novel due from Ronald Wimberly: Prince Of Cats. There's a Tumblr-driven site in support of the project, or however you're supposed to phrase that, here.


 
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