Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Abrams is excited enough about its Audrey Niffenegger picturebook/comic The Night Bookmobile that it sent out some advance imagery late last week. The 40-page/40-illustration work is due in September.

* the cartoonist Scott Stantis has ended a decade-plus long run at USA Today. Stantis is a syndicated strip cartoonist and works for the Chicago Tribune as a cartoonist in various creative capacities, so he's keeping busy. The way that these cartoonists settle into certain publications or for long runs at same is an under-examined way of how the major cartoonists make a living.

* in Kickstarter projects news, it looks like T. Edward Bak's request for funds for a research trip is heading to a happy ending by July 1, although I guess you can't be too sure about these things; I like that one, though, because it's weird and isn't something that would be funded by traditional outlets. Tony Murphy's coffeehouse project will hit its deadline pretty soon as well.

* the artist Darick Robertson is taking some time away from The Boys.

* the writer Paul Cornell has gone exclusive with DC Comics. I'm not sure what he's going to be doing with them (he's currently doing Action Comics and DC either isn't talking or doesn't know. Still, I'm guessing this means more DC Comics from Cornell than you might have thought otherwise, and not so much with a continuation of the Captain Britain stuff he was doing at Marvel.

* the great Gus Mastrapa profiles the Pokemon-commentary mini-comic Letters To An Absent Father.

* the next Mouse Guard series will be a prequel and will drop as comic book issues this Fall. I like those series as comic books, but, then again, I really like comic books.

* another quarter year gone by, another RASL preview cover.

* the cartoonist Craig Thompson assures us that work on Habibi progresses.

* finally, according to Gary Tyrrell the Octopus Pie collection Octopus Pie: There Are No Stars In Brooklyn drops today. It will be supported by the creator touring.


 
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