Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked

By Tom Spurgeon

what's coming out, who's doing it and what it's going to look like; gathered into one place once a week for ease of consumption

* the on-line comics fixture Bill Kartalopoulos discusses the publisher's description for David Mazzucchelli's forthcoming Asterios Polyp, surely one of the most anticipated releases for 2009.

* David Lasky announces he'll be doing a Carter Family biography for a major publisher -- you may have seen one of his Carter Family shorts before. A nice, nice man and a super-talented cartoonist somehow without a major project on his resume: this is great news. He'll be working once again with Frank Young.

* Guy Davis' Marquis has moved to Dark Horse and will start up again in 2010.

* female editorial cartoonist Jen Sorensen tackles the question of why there are so few female editorial cartoonists, like Jen Sorensen.

* the Ted McKeever Library will start publication in October with Transit.

* the comics news site ActuaBD.com catches that the first Marvel/Soleil effort has gone back to press and the second project may as well. What's additionally interesting here is that the company official cite the non-graphic novelness of the selected format as a contributing cause to the initial, positive reception.

* the great Al Columbia has re-launched his web site. AdHouse Books has re-launched theirs, although it's hard to catch what they've changed at first.

* speaking of AdHouse, they're going back to press for a second printing of Josh Cotter's fine Skyscrapers of the Midwest; they've sold out of a first printing of 2000. Fantagraphics has gone back to press on Bottomless Belly Button, print run unknown, although I may have mentioned that before.

* the cartoonist Brendan McCarthy is working on a Spider-Man/Dr. Strange series for Marvel.

* the cartoonist Nick Abadzis lets slip that he's working on placing a complete Hugo Tate with a publisher. A certain number of years ago, if you had had me make a list of cartoonists lost forever to comics publishing, Abadzis would have been near the top of that list.
 
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