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

By Tom Spurgeon

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* Sonny Liew has released what is the likely cover for a forthcoming English-language version of Malinky Robot.

* on Sunday, the writer Warren Ellis posted an update on various comics projects. Of particular note is his plan to bring Freakangels to a close, as that webcomic seems to me a model to which other people might pay attention over the next few years.

* Wayno sent out an e-mail that indicates he will be taking over Dan Piraro's Bizarro feature from May 16 to May 22, so that Mr. Defending Reuben Award Winner can have a small vacation. I always liked that kind of thing, although I realize that many hardcore comics fans never did.

* one of this year's Reuben Award finalists, Stephan Pastis has announced one of those comics+commentary books, this one coming from Chronicle and to be called Only The Pearls.

* I think this is a new message-board set-up for comics types. As much as I've come not to care for particular Internet offerings over the years, some in message-board form, I don't begrudge anyone who loves them and I'm always thrilled when someone finds use for a slightly out-of-date publishing expression.

* I wish we lived in a world where this were bigger news, but we have a really diffuse industry coverage scene right now, and I probably benefit a bit from the shape of that landscape. Anyway, TCJ has added a podcast, its first, TCJ Talkies. First up is all-time talker Evan Dorkin.

* details on the Strange Adventures re-launch. Speaking of details on already-announced projects, here's Stuart Immonen providing details on Centifolia 2, and a blog post providing details on Dark Horse's forthcoming Clamp book, Gate 7. It looks like DH is doing Gate 7 in some kind of short-burst serial form, which should be interesting. Not a lot of new information a sneak peek of Michael Kupperman's next book here.

* not comics: there will be a second Machine Of Death. The story of the first one is worth knowing, if that didn't ring a bell.

* the cartoonist Darwyn Cooke talked about a bunch of future books at his panel in Boston: a digital-only creator-owned book, a big project for DC, that there may be five instead of four Parker books and that he'd like to adapt The Fountainhead. A Darwyn Cooke adaptation of Ayn Rand would be a gas, so I hope someone buys that project from him.

* here's a wrap-up of publishing news announced at the BCC, including Cooke's.

* Roman Muradov is writing Fantagraphics a letter.

* here's a worthy-sounding project about which I haven't heard much else; I certainly didn't know in advance that it was coming out: The Artist At War, by veteran mainstream comics illustrator Nick Cardy. The book from Eva Ink collects his wartime drawings.

* finally, there a couple of other projects in the bookmarks which, like Cardy's, I haven't seen much discussed even though they seem out or imminent: Skippy Vs. The Mob and Aurora Borealice. The latter is from a cartoonist with whom I'm completely unfamiliar. I hope that you'll check both out because other than an illustrative piece of Aurora Borealice art below, I'm not sure I can do a good job of "selling" either link.

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