Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* shocker of the week: two new issues of comic serials believed potentially lost to the Buenaventura Press closure will be appearing at APE under the name of Pigeon Press: Boys Club #4 and I Want You #2 Please everybody buy these comics, multiple times if you can stand it, to coax Pigeon Press into doing more books. Full announcement here. A write-up with more context can be found here.

* less shocking, but perhaps bigger news in the overall scheme of things when we know a little bit more: Del Rey doesn't seem to have any manga due for publication... until 2013.

* I forget to do an OTBP entry for this short comic by Lucy Knisley when it was a brand-new concern, but I wanted to draw attention to it here because a cartoonist with a constant web presence like Knisley offering up a special comic at a modest price in addition to her commercial and on-line work feels like the future to me.

* IDW is collecting the Kurt Busiek/Stuart Immonen effort Shockrockets, and the writer enthuses over the cover.

* I missed this publishing announcement from a while back, probably because I didn't recognize any of the proper nouns: Sea Lion is adapting a series known as Dark Swan into comics form.

* Charles Vess is apparently doing some illustrations for a new edition (an e-edition?) of the Wheel Before Time mega-series.

* Robin McConnell is waiting for the first printed copies of the Inkstuds book, and is going on tour to support it.

* the Dalai Lama biographical manga Penguin is releasing here in translated form should be imminent.

* here's an article about a press conference phone call announcing the latest, overriding direction of Marvel's Spider-Man character. It's sort of fascinating how it's presented even if you're not interested in what's being presented. In fact, I'm not certain I know what the heck they're announcing past Spider-Man getting a job. Last I knew, all the Avengers heroes draw a paycheck from one of the Stark Foundations, so I'm not sure I even understand that. Spider-Man!

* the cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw explains why he's been adapting Blind Date episodes.

* Andrea Tsurumi is making 13 witches for Halloween.

* First Second announces two: Zita The Spacegirl, Lewis & Clark. Brigid Alverson writes it up.

* Julia Wertz is selling a bunch of stuff related to and including her new book Drinking At The Movies. Anything you can buy from the artist is an obvious direct benefit to that artist, although there are many schools of thought on the long-term effects of such sales.

* Ryan Sands unearths a bunch of previews from the cutting edge manga publisher Seirinkogeisha, which he describes as a smaller house not unlike North America's Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics.

* site favorite Darryl Cunningham is putting finishing touches on the US version of his Psychiatric Tales, due in February, and reminds us that there will be an Uncle Bob book next year as well.

* the writer Warren Ellis recommends a Liam Sharp art book.

* there is a book of essays on the writer Grant Morrison coming out in Italy, just begging to be translated into English by one of you enterprising about-comics publishers.

* finally, Arne Bellstorf's Die Suche has concluded and the whole thing is on-line starting here.


 
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