Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* I've heard that both The Hunter from IDW and Asterios Polyp from Pantheon are headed into second printings, good news for the late-summer, early-fall comics market and for those two books and their publishers individually. The IDW news (which I think they've confirmed) is noteworthy in that that company generously overprinted on the first time around, and doesn't have a lot of experience with books tailored to that end of the market. This would be important from Pantheon's perspective (and if true, as they haven't confirmed) in part because it's been at least a little while since that imprint has had a solid sales performer. And they're both fine books. I hope retailer orders can be re-filled with as little interruption as possible.

* missed it: Geoff Grogan of Look Out! Monsters and Kevin Mutch of Blurred Vision have started a blog called Next Issue!, which they hope will facilitate polite discussions of comics and related popular arts.

* the talented mainstream comics writer (and too-infrequent indy cartoonist) Jeff Parker will take over Marvel's Thunderbolts comic book and talked about it at last weekend's Chicago convention. He's really settled into place at that company, it seems. I always liked the idea of the Thunderbolts comic even though I don't think I've ever read more than ten pages of one. Having a title devoted to revitalizing bad guys is such a Marvel Right Now thing. Why should that half of the intellectual property not be refurbished at every opportunity? It used to be you didn't see a lot of Marvel villains again until Mark Gruenwald rounded them up to be slaughtered in a bar or you needed two new members of the Circus of Crime.

* it's all very out-there-already information about imminent books, but last Sunday's CR Feature on some of Fall 2009's best books may intrigue some of you that come here looking for forthcoming titles.

* "Tokyopop To Publish More Benjamin": I don't know the comics, but I like the cover. It's pretty. That's an old one from the same artist/studio I've slotted below.

* I've already mentioned this elsewhere, but there are some future plans at Fantagraphics items poking out of this interview with Eric Reynolds at Publishers Weekly. For instance, MOME is at the point it's spinning off its first few collections: Tim Hensley and Dash Shaw books at Fantagraphics, and a Paul Hornschemeier book at Villard.

* finally, here's the full PR for Fantagraphics' move into publishing Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy. I forgot to link to it last week. A couple of interesting things: they'll be doing this in a kind of enhanced softcover editions rather than hardcovers it sounds like, and they'll be doing volume two first because of archival concerns.


 
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