Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Dave Sim's Cerebus is going to be translated into Italian, starting with High Society.

* Scott Ian from Anthrax will be writing a Lobo book for DC. I like Ian; don't know about Lobo. This second wave of '90s mainstream comics nostalgia is going to be weird.

* the big news of the past week is that Viz is launching a new imprint, Shonen Sunday, which will apparently gather unto itself the titles translated from the Japanese magazine of the same name and will new-material launch with Rin-ne.

* in NBM news that piqued my interest, Jesse Lonergan has a new book coming out, and they're translating Guido Crepax's Story Of O. There are about 200 great cartoonist names, but I'm not sure any beats out Guido Crepax. When I'm in his hands I feel I'm either going to get some remarkably-drawn comics or be able to trade for warp drive parts at the spaceport.

* so I take it that Matt Fraction talking with Denny O'Neil is part of The Comics Journal #300's younger person/older person interview mix. That sounds like a good one.

* Jason Miner sent out e-mail this week indicating that the hiatus he took from Comic Book Talk Radio upon the birth of his first daughter has now become a retirement. I enjoyed appearing on that show, and wish Miner the luck in any and all future efforts -- including that daughter.

* hearing that Marvel is going to add another Spider-Man title to its line-up is the kind of news that should arrive with analysis as to why this is possible so that it can fixed, not exploited.

* Box Brown has a new book out.

* John Allison has announced he'll end his popular Scary Go Round this September. A new project should launch soon after.

* the cartoonist Chris Eliopoulos celebrates 400 installments of his webcomic Misery Loves Sherman.

* finally, the great Jordan Crane has made a couple of prints of the cover to Uptight #3 (featuring the art shown below, but beautifully realized instead of an online scan). One is 26 inches by 40 inches. Another is 13 by I'm guessing 20, even though the press release says 13 by 40.


 
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