Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Alan Gardner has the cover jacket up for the forthcoming Team Cul De Sac charity book.

* so I guess Ted May is writing Simpsons-related titles now? That would be a potentially effective pairing, especially if May has a passion for that material.

* your most efficient one-stop shopping hook for publishing news this week was the Image Expo held over the last weekend in Oakland. Here's a round-up article an enterprising person put together. (I'm never quite certain why publishers don't release that kind of information as a single PR announcement after shows like that one, although maybe Image did and I missed it.) I think the writer of that round-up is correct in that a new Grant Morrison book at Image is the biggest deal. It's not so much that Grant Morrison doing any book is worth noting -- although I think it is -- but that Morrison following Ed Brubaker to Image with a new project makes a mini-trend of established mainstream comics writers eschewing the creator-ownership options at the Big Two publishers for the deal they're getting with Eric Stephenson and all those Image founders.

* this publishing announcement for the Alan Grant/Jon Haward effort Tales Of The Buddha (Before He Got Enlightened) talks about its digital release being first, which I guess is a way to do it we'll see more and more of as print becomes this kind of specialty market for a lot of product.

* hey, it's a Thom Zahler art book Kickstarter campaign. * the FPI blog profiles a Kickstarter campaign for something called Parecomic. One of the creators behind the project The Art Of Carpe Chaos wrote in asking if CR might drive some attention to his kickstarter campaign. I'm happy to do what I can, which ain't much.

* no surprise that a couple of pages of previews from Gipi are pretty great-looking. No surprise that a few pages of Neal Adams' Batman: Odyssey from a forthcoming issue are attractive and slightly daffy. I just read a couple issue of that comic book -- I'm not alone in my circle of friends in terms of tracking that one -- and there's really nothing like it out there.

* the writing team of Leah Moore and John Reppion has placed work into a forthcoming issue of Judge Dredd Megazine.

* Kevin Melrose notes the end of two popular webcomics serials.

* Vertical has apparently announced two license pick-ups: Heroman and The Limit. The former is a new project co-written by Stan Lee, for whatever that's worth.

* a New York Times profile of George O'Connor reveals that he plans 12 books in that Olympians series he's been doing. He's hard at work on book #6, with a bit of work on a later volume or two already having been done.

* March Modok Madness is gearing up again. I'd applaud, but out of respect for those whose hands don't really reach across their massive, head-dominated body, I'll just do a thumbs-up instead.

* finally, Secret Headquarters is publishing a comic book of work from the prolific young talent Michael DeForge. I don't see how that isn't a wonderful thing.


 
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