Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Secret Acres has announced the release of Brendan Leach's graphic novel Iron Bound for September's Small Press Expo. This is the follow-up to Leach's well-received Pterodactyl Hunters In The Gilded City. It is apparently a "gritty, authentic account of street gangs and life in the margins of Newark, New Jersey's Ironbound district at the start of the '60s." The book will then be available to stores in October. It will run 252 pages and have a flex-disc record, retailing for $21.95. A book release party will be held September 6 at Bergen Street Comics.

* Matt Fraction will be writing an Inhumans comic book series for Marvel, working the artist Joe Madureira. They'll be pivoting off of a "houses" concept familiar to pop culture consumers at this moment because of the success of Game Of Thrones. Fraction is a really good mainstream comic book writer and the Inhumans material is the most undeveloped of the primetime Jack Kirby (with Stan Lee) concepts.

* I sort of forgot about this piece of news: a publisher doing a bunch of TV-related comics titles. This doesn't seem to me like a new thing, except for maybe the nostalgia angle. Given the age of comics audiences and the way the TV audience has fractured in the years since the 1980s, doing a bunch of comics from that time seems reasonably bright to me. There are probably more people conversant with and fond of Saved By The Bell than with and of Bunheads. It's also hard for me to imagine wanting to read any of them, but that may just be me. I never read any of those Married With Children books, either.

* here's a preview of Grant Geissman's soon-will-drop biography of Al Feldstein.

* so there will be a Samurai Jack series from IDW with Jim Zub writing it. That makes sense; he's a solid pro. What doesn't make sense is that it has somehow been 12 years since the cartoon show on which the comic is based initially came out. It seems like half that amount of time has passed.

* Darryl Cunningham is beginning to serialize a work on the banking crisis, which means that Darryl Cunningham will eventually publish a work on the banking crisis.

* I'm happy to see John Byrne making new superhero work; Byrne is the sort of creator that was so popular in his expression of comics that I want them to be able to work there whenever they want.

* the great David Lasky notes that his mini-comic on Ulysses has been reprinted in the Graphic Canon series.

* another piece of Marvel news is a round of Marvel Knights line stuff featuring work from indy artists, I guess? I suppose that's what it was there for initially, too... I always get lost in Marvel's various layers of overlapping branding. Cute design on the books, I guess.

* Sean Gaffney talks us through some publishing news from Anime Expo, and God bless him for that.

* finally, forgive me to post as publishing news something that's just been published, but I haven't been keeping up with the Bergen Street efforts and missed out totally that they're doing their second compendium of Michel Fiffe Copra material. I've really liked that work.


 
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