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

By Tom Spurgeon

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* look, it's the cover image for D+Q's forthcoming collection of Kate Beaton's comics, Hark! A Vagrant I think that book should do very well for Beaton and for D+Q -- and for my general mood the week it's released.

* here are a couple of ongoing Kickstarter campaigns from folks that are regular CR readers or are willing to lie by saying so: Kevin Bandt with The Carriers -- a Kickstarter campaign that could maybe use a kickstart, although it's how you end that game that counts -- and Keith H. Brown's further-along effort on behalf of a book about Eric Dolphy. Please stop by and check them out, and at least keep them in the back of your mind in case you hit the superfecta at Belmont or something.

* there will apparently be a new edition of Brooklyn Dreams from IDW this Fall. IDW will someday soon have published all the books from the last 30 years that anyone has wondered why a new edition hasn't been done.

* PC Weenies is ending its 13-year webcomics lifespan. Congratulations on a long and successful run. That's a lot of comics.

* here's some great news presented in classic "publishing announcement" fashion: Fantagraphics has acquired rights to two graphic novels drawn by the famous illustrator Guy Peellaert: The Adventures Of Jodelle (1966) and Pravda (1967). They were key books in the first wave of French-language comics aimed at adult readers, and are really cool objects besides. They are planned for in Spring (Jodelle) and Fall (Pravda) of 2012.

* Vertigo shows off the cover to the 50th issue of Scalped, one supposes in anticipation of being renumbered at #1 and everyone getting a Jim Lee-designed costume. Joking aside, that's a heck of a milestone.

* I'm not certain that I all the way knew that D+Q has plans to publish a version of Imiri Sakabashira's Neokappa in 2012, but between that and NonNonBa, they're going to have a really good manga year next year.

* finally, I've talked about AdHouse Books' publication of Stuart Immonen's Centifolia books here and there, mostly in an attempt to drive attention to the sometimes-hidden breadth of Immonen's career. Another way to look at it, though, is that AdHouse seems to have been pushing the work through a series of special offers, hand-selling and alternative distribution methods, making it this season's prime-time "Off The Beaten Path" book. If you're in Charlotte this weekend for the wonderful Heroes Con, you could do far worse than to track down AdHouse and take a look at those pretty volumes.

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