Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* King Features has expanded its licensing arrangement with Dynamite to include Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician. I don't suppose there's any reason why those two licenses couldn't make for halfway decent modern comic books. I assume they'll look nothing like the above, although my memory is that the King comics tended to have eye-catching covers.

* alt-comics pioneer Roberta Gregory has a web site up and has a new book out. Whoa, I had no idea. Whenever I think of Roberta I think of the late Jay Kennedy's constant praise for her work whenever my former employment by Fantagraphics became a topic of discussion. He was a great booster of hers.

* the next ACME Novelty Library has a release date and cover design.

* the big, important article of the week, and I'll probably pull something out of it for its own post, is Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald's tag-team coverage of the BEA just past from a comics point of view. There's a ton of stuff listed, everything from a forthcoming Sophie Crumb book edited/curated/midwifed by her parents to the Hardy Boys fighting zombies. Who knew zombies were interested in smuggling?

* Steve Lafler has released a cover image for his forthcoming book El Vocho. Lafler is in the midst of putting together a tour in support of the book. If you're a fan, you should have this site bookmarked.

* the writer Kurt Busiek talks about Dracula: The Company Of Monsters. The letterer Todd Klein talks about working on Neil Young's Greendale.

* not comics: things are tough all over in the publishing world. I honestly have no idea why that image was in my bookmarks file.

* the cartoonist Randy Reynaldo sent out a press release this week indicating that his Rob Hanes Adventures series will be collected in trade paperback form, with the earliest stories digitally re-lettered.

* finally, JK Parkin caught word that Jason Little's Motel Art Improvement Service, serialized on-line, will come out in collected, print form from Dark Horse in November. I will be very interested to read that work in print and all at once.


 
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