Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* looks like there's a new issue of Canicola out -- it's one of the important anthologies of this decade, and in earlier issues the stories were translated with subtitles at the bottom of each page, so I recommend trying to find it if you can.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com had a brief item on future non-fiction comics at Hill & Wang. The belle of the ball here would be Rick Geary's biography of Leon Trotsky, which is a project that hadn't really registered with me before now. That's due in late September.

* Brandon Graham's in-limbo King City will apparently see life as a traditionally-formatted comic from Image.

* here's an alternate cover for the first issue of the IDW Starstruck series. It's pretty.

* the creator and theorist Scott McCloud gives four forthcoming books his stamp of approval: David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Vera Brosgol's First Second book, Hope Larson's Mercury and David Small's Stitches: A Memoir and has a few words to say about comics in general. (I'm pretty sure that was supposed to go in one of the Random Round-Ups, but what the hell.)

* Fantagraphics has released their winter catalog, 2009/2010:

September 2009
* All And Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009, Paul Horschemeier
* The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974, Charles Schulz
* Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 1, Edited By Blake Bell
* The Classic Pin-Up Art Of Jack Cole, Edited by Alex Chun
* From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics In The Third Millennium, Edited by Steffen P. Maarup
* You Are There, Jacques Tardi and Jean-Claude Forest
* West Coast Blues, Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette

October 2009
* Prison Pit Book One, Johnny Ryan
* Gahan Wilson: 50 Years Of Playboy Cartoons, Gahan Wilson
* Conceptual Realism: In The Service Of The Hypothetical, Robert Williams
* The Squirrel Machine, Hans Rickheit
* MOME Vol. 17, Edited By Gary Groth And Eric Reynolds
* Chocolate Cheeks, Steven Weissman

November 2009
* Pim & Francie: "In The Golden Bear Days," Al Columbia
* The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion, Brian M. Kane
* Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner, Basil Wolverton
* The Unclothed Man In The 35th Century AD, Dash Shaw
* Sublife Vol. 2, John Pham

December 2009
* MOME Vol. 18, Edited By Gary Groth And Eric Reynolds
* King: The Special Edition, Ho Che Anderson
* Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, Michael Dowers
* Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis The Menace 1961-1962, Hank Ketcham

January 2010
* Krazy And Ignatz 1916-1918, George Herriman
* Hotwire Comics #3, Edited By Glenn Head
* Almost Silent, Jason
* Unlovable Vol. 2, Esther Pearl Watson
* Bella Donna: The Pin-Up Girls Of Kremos, Edited By Craig Yoe

February 2010
* Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Humorist, Edited By Johnny Ryan and Gary Groth
* King Of The Flies Volume One: Hallorave, Pirus And Mezzo
* Scream Queen Sand And Fury, Ho Che Anderson

March 2010
* The High Soft Lisp , Gilbert Hernandez
* Temperance, Cathy Malkasian
* The Search For Smilin' Ed! , Kim Deitch
* Our Gang Vol. 4, Walt Kelly

I wasn't aware of the new Malkasian, which is very good news. You can read more about the company's season by accessing PDFs of the catalog in ten parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. (I initially couldn't find a link for Part 8 because someone left the "previews" tag off of that one, but I went to fetch it the old-fashioned way. That is one anachronistic turd of a site in a lot of ways.)

* according to this post from Gary Groth, Fantagraphics still plans a Gil Kane being interviewed book followed by a Gil Kane doing interviews book. Both would be really great books.

* Horribleville is no more.

* the great Calvin Reid reports that Papercutz will publish graphic novels tied in to Disney's Fairies initiative.

* the offbeat superhero title Captain Britain and MI-13 will end with issue #15. It's a little sad these days when even the slightest variation on the various Marvel comics doesn't have enough support to keep going, but at least there are 15 issues of this comic for people to discover in the discount bins. I practically lived on little discoveries when I was a certain age.

* I'm not sure why folks are making a "licensed property" distinction with Fantagraphics working with a series its creators hope to take into animation. I can't imagine that's a very daunting hurdle after working with the Peanuts folks, even if this is new material as opposed to reprints. In fact, some of the earliest Fantagraphics titles were companion volumes focusing on "licensed properties" like X-Men and Elfquest. It seems to me Fantagraphics' stated interest in doing books for kids would be of greater interest.

* finally, I guess DC is trying a new version of Doom Patrol? That sounds... it just sort of sounds sad, as many times as they've relaunched those titles. Can't they just go try and re-launch stuff like Richard Dragon or Arion for a while just to give things like Doom Patrol and Legion of Super-Heroes a break?


 
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