Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon


* I think the above is from the same Afrodisiac project due out at the end of this year that's been mentioned in this column before, but it's an entertaining image, so I'm not going to complain. This is amusing, too.

* Comic Book Resources tracks down what happened to Fraser Irving's promised run on Batman and Robin: it's been moved to issues #10-12.

* according to a post on the blog through which he's been rolling out various chapters and story snippets, Steve Lafler plans on having a graphic novel version of his El Vocho out in 2010.

* Yen Press received much positive buzz for its announcement of a manga adaptation of the first of Lisi Harrison's The Clique books. There's a weird mechanism in comics where folks argue with great passion over whether or not announcements like this are good or not based on various asserted grasps at the series' potential and likely sales, but I'll skip that. The prose books are certainly popular.

* I did not know that Bill Willingham and Bill Williams will be writing the lead feature/back-up respectively on a run of IDW's Angel comics, nor did I know that they were starting to explore working with characters from previous comics into their own stories.

* there is probably something psychologically revealing in the use of the words "worth picking," but rather than dissect that I just thought it interesting to note how DC is packaging together runs on certain books sorted by creator. This is more the way, say, fans identify and buy a bunch of old back issues than companies have traditionally been likely to organize things, or at least it feels that way.

* it's been a while since I looked at the part of the Top Shelf catalog that talks about future releases, but I was compelled to when someone e-mailed to ask if there was going to be comic called The Story Of My Tits (there will be, by Jennifer Hayden). Other non-Alan Moore titles scheduled for that year as of right now are the Bacchus Two-Volume Omnibus from Eddie Campbell (which may be a change, I can't remember), the early Craig Thompson collection Kissypoo Garden and the Ray Fawkes and Vince Locke collaboration Junction True. I would imagine some 2010 releases will get punted back into 2011 as the months pass, and some of the vaguely-scheduled books -- new Pete Sickman-Garner, for example -- might slip into a certain year, and that they'll have perennials (James Kochalka, Andy Runton) as well as the expected Alan Moore stuff but it's fun to take this kind of look ahead.

* finally, Bill Barnes of Unshelved has with artist Paul Southworth launched a long-gestating strip about his time in the software industry called Not Invented Here. If nothing else, that's one of the better titles. Unshelved continues unabated. (via)


 
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