Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



* first of all, many of you wrote in to tell me that the Jesse Marsh Tarzan series will certainly run more than four volumes if it does well. I blame the error on all the dope I've been smoking at fraternity parties in South Carolina.

* second of all, although it's been run a lot of places I agree that it's good news that Yen Press has picked up the Yotsuba&! series. That should mean three volumes if I'm reading this article correctly. It's a very charming series, and quite well-executed. Other titles are mentioned in the same group of acquisitions but that news have been largely drowned out by all the cheering.

* Bill Ayers, graphic novelist.

* that new Rumiko Takahasi series that's starting up this Spring as mentioned here a couple of weeks ago has Viz on board for a translated version.

* be on the lookout for a Pet Avengers mini-series, written for Marvel by Chris Eliopoulos. It's an old-school for issues rather than the three and five that you see with greater frequency these days. That comes out in May. Ten years ago that title would have met something else entirely.

* the writer Kiel Phegley launched an interviews and news site, Four Color Forum, over the NYCC weekend. I've already linked to it at least once. Marc Singer announced the wind-down of his occasional review blog last week.

* the first volume of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo enters into a ninth printing.

* the talented Ho Che Anderson talks about his next Fantagraphics book and a slightly less tethered project publishing-wise here. The Fanta book is apparently a continuation of Scream Queen.

* the team of Leah Moore and John Reppion to take on Sherlock Holmes. I imagine there will be more than a few Holmes projects with Robert Downey Jr.'s screen version imminent. I always think the problem with these kinds of things is that the franchise is prominent in people's imagination without being really grounded there. So riffing on the subject matter doesn't carry the same weight as it might with other icons.

* Del Rey makes official an earlier, leaked announcement that they'll be publishing Penny Arcade, starting in 2010. In unrelated news, Del Rey will also be doing King of RPGs.

* otbp alert: the great Mat Brinkman apparently had a book out last year from Le Dernier Cri. Welp, there goes the publication date on my Best Of Year list.

* the potent creative team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting get a crack at one of those "the real story behind the story of superheroes" in their The Marvels Project.

* Papercutz has picked up the comics-version rights to the Geronimo Stilton books series.

* release plans announced for that adaptation of Wheel of Time. I don't understand how anyone can adapt for another form a billion-page long fantasy story that didn't end (at least not with its original author), but I'm not in the business of adaptations, either.

* finally, I share this person's confusion over the publishing strategy that allows the writer Chris Claremont to start over again with the X-Men where he left off (1991) in a title called X-Men Forever. I suppose this is sort of like someone in 2022 letting Aaron Sorkin run the last couple years of West Wing as he'd have done them. Or something. I'm not sure there is an equivalent. The weird thing is I swear this is the second time or even arguably the third time where they've sort of given Claremont a title with the mandate to write a semi-alternate, Claremont-centric version of things. I'm not hating the move -- I'm glad when any company of this type wants to work with someone older than the editor-in-chief -- but I am perplexed by it. Is there a big enough audience out there for this sort of thing?


 
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