Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the great Peter Bagge shows off his cover for the next Hate Annual. It's weird that we're almost into double-digits on those. Also: yikes.

* Dark Horse is apparently doing a bunch of one-shots for the Felicia Day-written The Guild. I don't know that series or its other-media predecessor at all, but the subject matter seems like it could be a rich one and it's certainly built for a certain, passionate, potential readership.

* the Library Journal previews a bunch of early 2011 comics projects, including a new edition of a late-'90s Lorenzo Mattotti project. New Lorenzo Mattotti anything is always welcome news.

* Jeffrey Brown has a new cat-related book out (via Sean T. Collins, I think).

* Bill Radford ends The Comics Fan.

* Jeremy Tinder and Aidan Koch are the newest cartoonists to join the revolving cast of MOME.

* Julia Wertz has posted a few pages from her latest book as an inducement to get you to consider buying it.

* there have been one million copies of Scott Pilgrim books printed. That should be more important to comics people than how much of the production budget the North American cinema release of the movie version made, but of course it isn't.

* the team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning will be writing the forthcoming Heroes For Hire comic; they're the writers that have been doing those well-received Marvel space books for a few years now. The weird thing about Heroes For Hire is that all those people look like terrible employees.

* okay, at first upon reading this I thought that Grant Morrison was adapting the Michael Keaton film Multiplicity, which is probably the only entry point by which his doing the Charlton heroes in a vaguely, Watchman-y way doesn't seem so weird.

* yeah.

* I always knew that David Low was on a list of potential hanging victims were Germany to take Great Britain, and hadn't even heard of this sort-of funny, sort-of dark planted rumor featuring him being joined on that list by some cartoon editors, a rumor now debunked.

* the new Leon book is in.

* not comics: the writer Matt Fraction notes that Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, a history of National Lampoon, is out. I know next to nothing about one of the great fountainheads of American comedy the last half-century, including one of the top 10 magazine homes for cartooning in the same period, so I'll definitely make a beeline for that one next time I'm in a bookstore.

* one-time Legion Of Super-Heroes super-team Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen are once again working together with those characters.

* the writer Greg Rucka returns to superhero comics.

* the fact that Paul Trap's Thatababy was being offered as a potential replacement for Cathy in my hometown newspaper meant with 99 percent certainty that someone out there had signed the Amazon.com contest participant to a syndication deal. Turns out it was Universal. I think that one could potentially launch very well.

* finally, Amazon has spit out a release date for Pantheon's collection of Dan Clowes' Mister Wonderful: April 2011. (thanks, Brad Mackay)


 
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