Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* I forget who sent me this link to a bunch of forthcoming PictureBox books, but it's a good one.

* the great Gary Panter has relaunched his web site. There's a ton of stuff to explore there, so get to it.

* while multiple magazines purporting to fill that magical aesthetic space between Wizard and The Comics Journal have come and gone, Joel Meadows and Team Tripwire keep on publishing, in print, year after year, Diamond's bizarre solicitations standards and the general apathy of the North American comics Direct Market be damned. They're doing another one, and if you're a store owner or distributor that can give them a hand in getting more of their magazines into the hands of attentive summer readers, I'm sure Joel would appreciate your inquiry.

* if I'm understanding his e-mail correctly, Thomas Scioli came home from a weekend of talking comics at Heroes Con and promptly refigured his American Barbarian and Unmortals: The Myth Of 8-Opus properties into more of a classic webcomics format.

* not comics: there's a documentary on National Lampoon in the works. (thanks, Devlin Thompson)

* in Kickstarter news, there's a not-comics project by Ryan Alexander-Tanner, whereby he hopes to build an images library for educators to utilize. Tony Murphy's comics-in-coffeehouses project is still live, while T. Edward Bak's research grant request is heading into the home stretch.

* CO2 Comics has added a serial by Raine Szramski to their site.

* Steven Thompson has launched another blog, Four-Color Shadows.

* from Shaenon Garrity comes word that Toby Craig's Punish The Dead has completed its initial on-line publication run.

* Dark Horse talks about the finale of its Buffy Season 8 project. For some reason, it seems totally weird to hear a company talking about wrapping a project up instead of it just ending. That can't be good.

* Cameron Stewart's current sketchbook mini is available for purchase. Love the title.

* Boom! is partnering with ComiXology to make content available for the iPad.

* Howard the Duck is coming back in September. I like Stuart Moore, but I have no idea why they don't just give that character to Evan Dorkin or Johnny Ryan or someone like that. What about Kyle Baker? I'm sure he could draw a fine duck.

* finally, Fred Hembeck has written and drawn a ten-page Spider-Man/Human Torch story. I can't figure out why he's done this, or for exactly what publication, but what he has up looks nice.


 
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