Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked

* the Hansen Literary Agency announced two new book deals last week. The first was a two-book deal for the cartoonist Jake Parker's Missle Mouse character at Graphix, the Scholastic imprint. The first of the two, Missile Mouse: The Star Crusher is due in Srping 2010. I'm working from a press release but I'm sure the same information is on-line; here's a mention.

The second deal was a two-book deal for Ben Hatke at First Second Books for a character called Zita the Spacegirl. The first book will be called Zita the Spacegirl: The Longest Day, and is near completion.

Parker and Hatke are alumni of the Flight/Flight Explorer anthologies.

* the mighty Al Columbia would like to let you know that his work will not appear in the forthcoming giant-sized Kramers Ergot Vol. 7. The story he was working on expanded into a 48-page work to be called Belladonna and to be published by KE's Buenaventura Press.

* covered earlier this week: a proper sequel to '90s superhero cornerstone Marvels: Kurt Busiek, but no Alex Ross.

* Pantheon has acquired rights to Dash Shaw's on-line Body World. I don't understand the rest of the article that PW runs. Why does it matter if his book at Fantagraphics has Hollywood interest at all? Is the interest really "unprecedented"? Given how many books have been sold to Hollywood over the decades for how much money under how many terrifically odd circumstances, that would have to be a pretty astounding process for it to be unprecedented. Well, no matter weird the article is, Shaw's a super-talented cartoonist and I'm glad he's being rewarded for his ambition, skill and hard work. I greatly look forward to the book.

* the new Fall/Winter catalog from the University Press of Mississippi features three books of comics-related interest. The first is Harvey Pekar: Conversations, edited by Michael G. Rhode; the second is A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester and featuring an army of academics and writers about comics; the third is Bruce Campbell's ¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA and the Politics of Globalization. The first two are exactly what they sound like: a book of interviews and an anthology of new comics scholarship; the third is Campbell's look at changing Mexican national identity through its various comics.

* finally, Charlie Hebdo introduces its own line of books. I wonder if it's good or bad to be in the midst of an internationally-covered, controversial news story when you launch a book line. I guess we'll find out.
 
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