Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



There's not a lot of publishing news to report this week, at least not a lot of which I'm aware, so I ask your indulgence as I use the column to mention a pair of projects from a single creator: one that's slipped out almost without my noticing it and one that's coming in late 2009 or early 2010. The boxed set of Tony Fitzpatrick's long love letter to and meditation on Chicago in a series of portraits and poems, The Wonder is now available from La Luz De Jesus and Last Gasp. Fitzpatrick doesn't consider himself a cartoonist -- and rightly so, as he doesn't make cartoons -- but his themed presentations of ideas about physical spaces and their potential meanings are so obviously close enough to the way we understand how comics work (a visual-verbal blend, the development of an idea within and between images) that you can't exclude them. Plus they're quite lovely so even if you had to you'd be forgiven making an allowance on their behalf.

The other news is that Fitzpatrick is far along in working on a follow-up -- probably for a specific New York publisher this time around, one that showed interest in the third Portraits book that concluded The Wonder -- about the city of New Orleans in its post-Katrina state. Fitzpatrick is clearly inspired by the cultures that inform that city but it's worth noting he also enjoyed his first great commercial art success providing the cover to the Neville Brothers' album Yellow Moon. From the looks of the very rough preview I've seen, that may be more of an illustrated work when completed than a series of images with poetry infused into them, although there's plenty of such imagery, too. Whatever it looks like in final form it will almost certainly be worth reading.

image above from the third Portraits series
 
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