Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: A Publishing News Column

By Tom Spurgeon

* one of the things you could have picked up at MoCCA Fest is this snazzy-looking science fiction comic from (I think) Ryan Cecil Smith. Colin Panetta has a nice report here on work he found at last weekend's show. It might also be worth noting that D+Q and Fantagraphics sneaked/premiered a bunch of work there, ranging from TCJ #301 to Paying For It.

* if you're going to read just one linked-to article from this week's column, make it this one: Julia Wertz speaks in forthright fashion about being dropped by her mostly prose-book publisher and trying to find purchase on the roster of a comics publisher. It's as important a trends story as there exists in comics right now, and it's not as dramatically presented as what takes place when companies trim staff or cancel projects outright.

* the great cartoonist and thinker about comics Dylan Horrocks provides an impassioned write-up on Darkest Day, the Christchurch Earthquake benefit comic, here.

* late last week IDW announced it had seen 1,000,000 of its apps for reading comics on the iPad and iPhone downloaded. I lack the context to tell you if that's an important number or one that should be expected, but I have to imagine it's worth noting. It may be that there won't be a dramatic tipping point and digital comics will just sort of be there until it feels like they've always been there.

* holy crud, there's a new issue of Rubber Necker out. Somewhere demons curl.

* here's a note about a nice, forthcoming gig. Team Cartoon Movement will be making a trip to Haiti in order to recruit a local cartoonist about life in that country post-earthquake.

* the writer Mark Millar used the occasion of organizing a London comics convention last weekend to announce some future projects.

* Universal Uclick will participate in the StoryMarket content network with material including comics. I think the idea there is to provide editors with single-use material tied into specific subjects as opposed to the classic syndication model of recurring columnists and comics work.

* better known as a critic, Matt Seneca has launched a site devoted to his own comics.

* Sonny Liew talks about his work in this summer's eighth volume of Flight, that series' last. While the Flight books weren't as transformational as was argued on their behalf early on, they were certainly influential and offered up a lot of quality comics work, particularly from people that might not have otherwise done that kind of work.

* not comics: the writer Warren Ellis has signed a two-book prose deal with Mulholland. I enjoyed that first prose book he did and hoped that he'd continue doing them, so I consider that really good news despite the usual being happy for the creator.

* Marvel intends to publish a Muppets book collecting work from cartoonist Roger Langridge.

* I think I liked the title of the press release here more than I like the title of the book. Got my attention, though.

* Hermes is going to be doing a bunch of Gold Key Phantom comics in bound form. Count me in.

* if you're interested, Don MacPherson will walk you through DC's forthcoming nostalgia-embracing event.

* finally, it's worth noting that Dustin Harbin finished off his Diary Comics project several days ago. Congratulations to Mr. Harbin; it should be fun to see what he does next.

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