Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Alternative Comics will be facilitating the publication and distribution of two additional, previously unannounced comics in 2013: The Magic Whistle #0 and The Outliers Chapter One.

* I did not know there was a forthcoming The Art Of Sean Phillips book, but looking at Amazon listings October-December, there it is.

* I have never found a good way to do con releases on this site -- I have a hard time sorting out notable releases from other releases, and everyone has something. But a second issue of Black Eye will be out from Rotland Press, and that sounds pretty good. Its contributors include Max Clotfelter, Richard Cowdry, J.T. Dockery, Brecht Evens, Julia Gfrorer, Danny Hellman / Ian Huebert, Benjamin Marra, Onsmith, Helge Reumann and David Shrigley. Paul Krassner and Bob Levin are in there, too. There's even a JG Posada tribute section. You can stare at that one in advance here.

* DC has announced a crossover thingamaroo for this Fall. I am certain that things will change... forever.

* CNN profiled the launch of Marvel's X-Men #1 last week, focusing on the all-female line-up. I don't take any particular... I don't know, encouragement from coverage like that. It makes sense that media outlets would do that, or at least it makes sense to me.

* the writer Paul Jenkins has signed with BOOM! for the time being. I think there a few news-worthy threads present there: the tendency for writers that have made a name in mainstream comics to settle in at smaller publishers for certain projects, the desire of some artists and writers to not work for the biggest mainstream companies right now given their thrust and direction and what this means for Jenkins' career and the publisher with which he's signed up.

* did I know about Virgil Partch from Fantagraphics and early Gasoline Alley from Drawn and Quarterly? I do now. The Partch book has been a long time in coming, if that ends up being anywhere near a comprehensive or at least well-curated collection. I say "well-curated" because I have a sense without quite knowing for sure that Partch was super-prolific.

* finally, Ryan Andrews announced that This Was Our Pact will be coming from First Second in 2016, surely an era of jetpacks and pills for dinner.


 
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