Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* ICv2.com is one of many sites to pick up on D+Q's formal declaration to distribute Chris Ware's 20th anniversary issue of ACME Novelty Library, one of the greatest comics series in history.

* this announcement has been everywhere, but in case you haven't seen it: gifted cartoonist seeks publisher.

* D+Q will be publishing Adrian Tomine's Scenes From An Impending Marriage in early Spring 2011. That should be a treat.

* retailer Mike Sterling talks about an interesting piece of recent Marvel advertising that foreshadows a plotline in a forthcoming issue of Fantastic Four (I swear those "for" words weren't on purpose). One thing Sterling almost mentions but really doesn't is that the "oh, they're doing that again" effect is balanced against a "oh, Jonathan Hickman's doing his version of that" effect.

* despite the fact that few folks wanted to see the movie in theaters, a lot of the Scott Pilgrim books have been sold, and I imagine this boxed set will do well.

* the cartoonist Nate Neal has launched a web site in support of his new book from Fantagraphics, The Sanctuary.

* the wrestler and children's book author Mick Foley is apparently going to write a comic book series.

* it looks like young European indie cartoonist Bastien Vives share with some of his same-age North American cartooning peers the desire to make straight-up fantasy genre comics part of his overall output.

* this interview with cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley suggests that he doesn't quite know what his next project will be, he already has a few concepts to choose from if he goes in that direction, and that it probably won't be something related to Street Stupid.

* finally, two solidly-established webcomics bid their readers farewell: Ellerbyisms and The Everyday. Congratulations to both cartoonists on lengthy, honorable runs and best of luck in all future endeavors.


 
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