Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



* from the Canadian comics news clearinghouse Sequential comes word of a new Jesse Jacobs book debuting from Koyama at TCAF. Not to be outdone, Conundrum announced its four TCAF debuts mid-week last week, and they all look handsome.

* another one from Sequential: I don't know that I'm all that familiar with the work of Daniel Ha, but I like the idea of the cartoonist hand-delivering this latest book to buyers in the Montreal area.

* Alan Gardner put the names on the Team Cul De Sac book in proper order first name first so I didn't have to. That's the fundraising book for Parkinson's Disease revolving around the characters of cartoonist Richard Thompson.

* here's a little bit from Dan Clowes about Nancy.

* BOOM! is doing a Garfield comic book.

* Don MacPherson expresses some doubt that the new Avengers Vs. X-Men thing at Marvel will feature the required, compelling story in order to keep readers' interest throughout. I don't think Marvel has a lot of wiggle room execution-wise in any aspect of any big book right now.

* of the half-dozen or so things that I think needed to happen with DC's New 52 initiative to keep some of its initial momentum, one of them is they had to nurture some of the younger writers -- both the super-newbies and the emerging ones. In the emerging category, they seem to have pleased a lot of fans with the Batman-related work being done by Scott Snyder. Greg Capullo is nobody's wingman, of course. Speaking of those books, I totally missed the return of Howard Mackie. That's a very visually appealing name.

* a sale on books isn't really publishing news, but this post reminds me how much I've enjoyed the new Prince Valiant collections. That's been a fun reading experience this time around.

* hmm.

* here's something I didn't know: Rebecca Rosen has started a small company, and just made book plates for Matthew Forsythe.

* hey, this is nice: Dave Kiersh met his Kickstarter goal, after not being all that close the day before. This was interesting to me because Kiersh is the kind of talent that seems like could benefit from a direct appeal to his fans, and this particular effort was really focused on pre-order style fundraising as opposed to a ton of incentives. Update: It's not as nice as I thought. Tom "Nat" Devlin just wrote in to point out that really what happened is that Anne Koyama stepped up and pushed the offer over the threshold in her very supportive, very admirable way -- so this isn't a thumbs-up in the direction of incentive-light kickstarter projects in support of work from hard-to-categorize cartoonists. That effort had it remained such an effort would have failed.

* writer Jim McCann has released a few visuals from his forthcoming Image comic with Rodin Esquejo and Sonia Oback.

* Todd Allen at The Beat has a list of the new artists on the Ashes project. I wasn't all that interested in that publishing story when it was a messy creative team dissolution story, but it's nice to see that it will come out and I like a lot of those artists.

* I am also looking forward to new Tatsumi.

* some good news from the ComicsPRO meeting: IDW is apparently doing one of those giant, from-original-art books featuring the "Born Again" storyline from years ago in Daredevil. I really, really like that series.

* finally, this preview of a couple of pages from Clara Bessijelle's Face Man sure is something. That one is from Domino Books.


 
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