Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the Kuti Kuti empire has added a bunch of I believe brand-new solo books to its publication list, including works by Roope Eronen, Tommi Musturi and Benjamin Bergman.

* Boom! is bringing back the Rescue Rangers. Life is so much less annoying when they stop bringing back the stuff from your childhood and start cannibalizing the dim, sweet memories of the younger set.

* speaking of which, Matt Murray has launched a dedicated Smurfs blog.

* Top Cow is reviving its indy-comics oriented imprint Minotaur Press according to a PR push this week. This was talked about openly in San Diego to the point that I'm sort of surprised it hadn't been formally announced yet.

* the Comic Book Resources group blog Robot 6 spit out something like a half-dozen, straight-up publishing stories in a row at one point this week. I've lost a couple to other starred items in this post and to other posts entirely, but here's what remained in my links folder. Joe Lansdale and Sam Kieth are doing a 30 Days Of Night comic. Dark Horse is resuming publication on two manga series that I guess had been on hiatus. The Webcomics Factory is launching a new offering. An on-line magazine for young manga-style artists is profiled. A few Grant Morrison books have been delayed; the writer of the post suspects that the writers workload is a contributing factor.

* the great Tony Millionaire notes that the softcover release of the first Strange Tales volume is out, with lots of comics featuring Marvel superheroes by the alt-comics set. Being Tony Millionaire he manages to bring his balls into it, but the information itself is solid.

* a few on-line comics coverage/commentary notes: 1) Greg McElhatton is taking a brief hiatus away from Read About Comics. 2) the writer Jason Aaron is starting a new column at CBR this week. Love the icon. 3) First Second has tweaked its web site enough it's almost a soft (re-)launch.

* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com digs into the various Harvey Pekar-related projects in the hopper and suggests what might come out soon and what might be a while featuring work by the late writer.

* a new Amazing Facts... and Beyond! is apparently imminent.

* finally, I either did not know or had to be reminded that Kim Thompson is translating Milo Manara for new editions of his major works from Dark Horse.


 
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