Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Arthur runs a preview of Young Lions.

* Bob Greenberger says a Howard Chaykin retrospective being planned by Dynamic Forces has been penciled in for a fourth-quarter 2010 release. Details to come.

* Marvel announces another temporary design approach to its Iron Man serial comic book. I like this, because it seems to me it makes the serial comics-reading experience a bit more special than usual, and given the character's prominence in the pop film world it's a good choice for that kind of treatment.

* Keith Knight is leaving Salon after a ten-year run.

* congratulations to Mike Manley, who will replace the ailing Eduardo Barreto on the KFS strip Judge Parker. That seems to me a great choice.

* pop-culture doyenne Whitney Matheson reports on a new webcomic by Ariel Schrag and Kevin Seccia called Kevin and Ariel Invade Everything.

* I apologize for not remembering exactly how I learned about the link to bookmark it, but Valerie D'Orazio's Memoirs Of An Occasional Superheroine can be found here with I think a new cover.

* you know there's trouble at a comics company when a selected sale price point is so severe it causes the usually mercenary comics consumers out there to step back and go, "can you really sell them that cheap?" Simon Jones unpacks Aurora Publishing's 90 percent off sale and troubling news emanating from the specialty publisher, including the possibility they're not long for the world.

* a couple of press release-driven publishing announcements: IDW announced their Last Unicorn effort will debut its serial iteration at Wonder Con. That looks like it could be pretty, and I remember that being a pretty effective story. Dark Horse made its "here it comes" announcement about its forthcoming The Oddly Compelling Art Of Denis Kitchen, which gives you a look at the cover. Finally, Craig Yoe sent something out on behalf of his Super I.T.C.H. comics history blog, which I thought was an ongoing concern for a while now, but I guess I was wrong. Le Sketch #9, featuring Matthew Thurber, has also slipped out underneath my radar.

* the 1980s syndicated project Holiday Out -- which features work from a number of cartoonists including Grass Green -- is being republished.

* Alan Gardner -- who is doing all the publication news heavy lifting this week! -- finds a Doonesbury promotional video that doesn't connect to a book out there. Yet.

* not comics: I didn't even know that The Onion's cultural review arm AV Club had a local, staffed New York office, so I'm not stunned to learn it's going away. It's still worth noting any change at that publication, I think.

* finally, this is the first time I can recall seeing the front and back covers to the forthcoming Lane Milburn effort Death Trap.


 
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