Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* Heart Of Thomas has been moved back to 2013. Comics is in a good place when you can move major books from Gilbert Hernandez and Moto Hagio out of the year and almost no one blinks.

* Rol Hirst and Rob Wells have released their superhero satire Department Of The Peculiar #1. I don't really use this column to throw the spotlight on a lot of small press releases, mostly because I don't hear about them until they're out, but it's always nice to be reminded that people are out there making things.

* here's a fascinating blog post about a news story that completely escaped my attention (and thanks to Trevor Ashfield for cluing me in): apparently there was still a locals-only strip in the Globe And Mail, and that strip was recently canceled with a reshuffling of the paper. I'm a fiend for one-paper-only strips, or ones that are mostly focused on one publication, so this is sad news.

* I missed this comics line launch from several days ago. Please click on the link so I feel less guilty.

* Marvel will do digital comics. They should. I just sort of hope that whatever they do will be treated as a comic in terms of the financial remuneration involved, and won't be treated as something a bunch of creators are doing at a reduced price or for free. That would be scary.

* the comics news portal Newsarama has a piece up on the writer Rick Remender finishing up his run on the comics Uncanny X-Force, which was a well-liked book in that area of comics -- I saw it on several best-of lists.

* I hope very much that Ben Towle found a publisher for Oyster War through his book-dissemination efforts this past weekend.

* Dustin Harbin's work is apparently appearing in a forthcoming issue of the Latvian anthology kus!

* T. Edward Bak has a lovely-looking preview page up here.

* missed this brief Steve Morris report on Dark Horse bringing the webseries Husbands into comics.

* finally, I somehow missed that Shaenon Garrity was doing strips about The X-Files. I blame a vast government conspiracy and, you know, aliens.


 
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