Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



* the cartoonist and esteemed anthology editor Sammy Harkham reveals his cover for sure to be monster hit Kramer's Ergot #7, due in November.

* not that I expected a different answer from those nice folks at this late date, but the moving of the Prince of Persia movie from 2009 to 2010 has done nothing to change First Second's plans to have their graphic novel version of the property out in early September.

* it looks like Cartoon Books has reprinted their Rose and Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails efforts, and has them available at their store.

* DC has gone back to press on 300,000 copies of Watchmen based on renewed interest due to the forthcoming film adaptation, due next March. Early estimates had them going with another 200K or 250K, so the bigger number is what's particularly newsworthy about that article.

* a few CR readers noted that Amazon.com announced in an e-mail that Gilbert Hernandez's Fantagraphics book The Troublemakers has moved from an August release date to January 2009. According to Eric Reynolds at Fantagraphics, Gilbert is juggling a lot of projects and The Troublemakers "was the book that had to give amongst all his various projects."

* file this one under reprint projects I thought we'd never see: Dark Horse is adding Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery to its archival program. Speaking of which, it looks like the publisher will continue its archival work on the Herbie comics through at least a second hardcover, out by the end of the year.

* I wasn't aware that Valiant Entertainment was continuing its collection of popular titles from its 1990s library, this time with an Archer & Armstrong volume. With hundreds of thousands of these issues in print and it now being a dead title, I have to imagine the individual issues making up this new book can be found for pretty cheap; then again, I'm not sure that matters to people that want their books in a format featuring a spine.

* this thread at TCJ.com reminds us that a second translated volume of Martin Kellerman's Rocky strips will hit in November.

* Marvel is going to do one of its weird insta-collections of early issues of the Kick-Ass mini-series. This kind of thing always seems like a bad idea to me in terms of anything other than short-term profit, but it's not like anyone's objecting to short-term profit. From the humongous reservoirs of individual issues I've seen in three of three comic book shops I've visited recently, I'm surprised to hear that the title has sold out.

* Brett Warnock caught this, which is good because I sure didn't: Indigo Kelleigh launched a new on-line strip in late July called The Adventures of Ellie Connelly.

* Chuck Dixon and Mike S. Miller have been announced as the creative team on the Dabel Brothers Wheel of Time adaptation.

* not comics: Patrick McDonnell has another children's book due September 1.

* Jiro Taniguchi's Harukana Machi-e, a major award winner in Japan in 1999 and in Europe in 2003, will be released into English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon in 2009 as A Distant Neighborhood. I think this is more reminder than announcement, but come on: Jiro Taniguchi.

* Fabrice Giger talks to Newsarama about the Humanoids/DDP deal, and the expected, initial battery of projects: I Am Legion, The Zombies Who Ate the World, Redhand, Olympus, Metal and more volumes of The Metabarons and The Technopriests.



* above is the cover for the next Or Else, by Kevin Huizenga.

* Tokyopop has dropped Shutterbox.

* Paul Pope puts a new cover on Heavy Liquid.

* finally, Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba are reuniting for a second Umbrella Academy series, the first issue of which will hit comic book shops in November. The first series recently won the Best Limited Series Eisner at the 2008 ceremony, and reportedly sold very well.
 
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