Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

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* somehow I missed that Top Shelf was publishing a print collection of Jennifer Hayden's Underwire. It's either just out or just about to be out, so hardly counts as news, but I thought it worth noting.

* Titan plans a series of Alex Raymond Flash Gordon books, which I assume means that Checker is no longer doing their books, although that certainly doesn't have to mean that.

* here's a look at the cover and design for Seth's Wimbledon Green sketchbook-comics follow-up The Great Northern Brotherhood Of Canadian Cartoonists. Pretty. Xeroxes on this one have gone out to reviewers, and it looks like a lot of fun. I think there was a preview up at TCJ last Spring, but damned if I could find it now. It was probably a limited time thing.

* Chris Wright announced via his Facebook presence that Fantagraphics will be publishing his comic Black Lung.

* one of my favorite people in comics, the writer Carlton Hargro, has put together a Kickstarter proposal for his comics character Isis. I hope it gets over, although there's a lot of work left to be done there.

* a lot of folks have in the past week linked to this preview and these images from the forthcoming collaboration between Mary and Bryan Talbot: Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes.

* Marvel announced which characters will anchor what I'm guessing is one of a bunch of different titles with the name Avengers in it, which is always a sign of where some of their developmental priorities lie. It seems like a pretty dull line-up, in that I couldn't tell you if this happened to be the line-up from three years ago. And no magic guy. I do wonder if anyone will ever be able to resuscitate some semblance of significant popularity for the Vision character, as he was maybe the favorite of hardcore Marvel fans before Wolverine assumed that role via Uncanny X-Men. It would probably have to be a soft reboot and break, as I can't imagine this generation of writers being around to be influenced by comics quite that old.

* I missed this last week, but the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announced details of its latest Liberty Annual. I also just missed getting a note in about the cartooning collective CLAMP resuming work on Legal Drug. And apparently there's a new issue of Optic Nerve coming out.

* comics industry survivor store Tripwire has a new issue coming out, previewed here.

* finally, Koyama Press announced new books from Julia Wertz and Matthew Forsythe. There aren't any additional details about the Wertz book that I can see but the Forsythe one will be a mini of teaching-related strip he's been posting to his web site.

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