Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



* here's some nice mainstream comics news to start things off: Marvel.com reports that Kathryn Immonen will be writing their Runaways title, teaming with an artist named Sara Pichelli. Pichelli I wouldn't know if we went to the same gym, but I liked Immonen's work on the recent Hellcat mini-series a great deal and have always enjoyed her contributions to efforts she and husband Stuart Immonen have serialized on-line. Marvel's Nick Lowe sent word that they had announced it on one of those TV shows I avoid because I'm certain they'll make me feel old, and put a ps on the e-mail that said "And Kathryn's scripts are PHENOMENAL!"

* a post on the TCJ messageboard reveals plans for the long-running magazine's 300th issue: inter-generational interviews, like Dash Shaw talking to Art Spiegelman and Keith Knight talking to Jim Borgman. That sounds really good.

* the Wednesday Comics project from DC sounds really good, too. This is a broadsheet-sized weekly featuring rotating talent -- kind of a Sunday comics page if King Features and DC Comics had switched jobs in the late 1930s and DC was still making such comics today. That's where that super cool-looking Kyle Baker Hawkman is going to go, for instance. I like the idea of a book unique to comics shop and the comics buying experience and were I anywhere near one I would look forward to trying this series.

* the great Robert Crumb has finished his work on the Genesis project, to be called Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis and to be published this Fall. That's just astoundingly great news. I know that Xeroxes/ARCs of Asterios Polyp are making the pre-publication rounds right now, so I think we can already call this one of those years.

* mediabistro.com collected some links earlier this week on Marvel's long-planned indie-talent project.

* since I seem to be all about mainstream comics announcements this week, please note that Andy Diggle is getting the Daredevil assignment after Ed Brubaker leaves the superhero book. I'm wondering if Ed even passed along my "sexier, slightly more violent Mr. Magoo" pitch.

* "Yes, Dust is biting the dust."

* I know that everyone on planet earth has published the well-disseminated image below of Frank Quitely pin-up art related to the new Batman & Robin series that he and writer Grant Morrison are doing. This is the only blog about comics my brother reads, and he'll be excited, so I hope you'll forgive me.

* finally, the cartoonist and occasional writer about comics Frank Santoro sent along this hand-colored Roy Crane saying that it will likely be included as part of the introductory material for the forthcoming first volume of Fantagraphics' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips. This is a nice reminder that we're going to get new volumes of Roy Crane starting this summer, which is the kind of thing that hits me now and then and puts a big smile on my face. I love that demented action-packed buddy movie comic strip.


 
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