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

By Tom Spurgeon

* the line-up for Sundays 4: Forever Changes seems pretty impeccable, and the cover by Maisie Kukoc winner Damien Jay is quite attractive. I know that's not exactly compelling news, but let us never take good comics for granted.

* the only downside to news that Sergio Aragones will be publishing frequently with a new comic book series is bafflement that something like this doesn't already exist.

* there's not even a made-up, humorous downside I can think of to a Stuart Immonen/AdHouse Books team-up.

* in Kickstarter news, Phil McAndrew is the latest cartoonist seeking to fund a project through the incentives-laden process that the site does so very well.

* a look at the next Steve Ditko comic.

* Mike Allred announces a celebratory monster-sized 20th anniversary book for his Madman character.

* the new Dark Horse Presents looks like it could be fun, and certainly has the all-star line-up you'd expect of a time where there's few opportunities to publish like this one. I bet between the time I write this and the time it rolls out on the blog someone will have made a wisecrack about this being a comic featuring a bunch of older cartoonists, although I don't think of DHP as breaking a whole bunch of talent back in the day, not really.

* a first look at a first look at Sailor Moon.

* Johanna Draper Carlson uses Viz's step back from Gin Tama to talk about how a publisher should end a long-running series when it becomes clear there's not enough momentum to get across the finish line.

* here's a look at the first cover for the next Terry Moore project.

* Digital Manga Publishing announced a bunch of license acquisitions in a story that was soon pummeled to the ground by the Tokyopop closure news.

* so the second-string Spider-Man is kicking the bucket. I suppose there's something to be said for the timing of those plot points, as it's aimed less at consumers than at retailers ordering the book in question. At the same time, I can't imagine this being a big deal beyond what they're able to kind of jumpstart on its behalf -- in other words, I see the hype being the entirety of the extra interest in this book, I don't detect a groundswell of interest in what they're doing with it. I'm pretty far removed from those book, admittedly.

* Khalid Albaih has joined the roster of cartoonists published through Cartoon Movement.

* finally, although it's one I think reads best as individual comic books and it's not like there's ever going to be so few of those as to make it a difficult buy, I imagine there are many people for whom a Kamandi omnibus is great, great news. I'm happy for anyone to read that material in whatever form is available to them. Let your eyes settle a bit into that image below -- pretty great, huh?

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