Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* above is the possible cover for Darryl Cunningham's Psychiatric Tales, as discussed here. It's due next year from Blank Slate Books.

* the writer Matt Fraction has posted two images showing off the new look for the Iron Man comics he's doing. They're by Rian Hughes and they're very pretty. An eye-popping design for a run of issues heading into a movie summer sounds smart to me.

* the serial Life With Mr. Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier will end in Mome Vol. 17, for which Mr. Hornschemeier did the covers including the one at left.

* most everyone reading this probably already knows that translated manga has been just as popular and just as industry-changing in the French-language market as it's been here. They'll be getting Pluto next year from Kana; an ongoing series of Nausicaa volumes designed to look like the original publications has been delayed because Glenat claims that Studio Ghibili is too busy getting into the making of video games to work with any of the foreign licensees.

* briefer than brief Amulet Vol. 3 and Flight Vol. 7 production updates here.

* the comics business and news analysis site reports that in March Dark Horse will be releasing two books illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (Shinjuku) and the collective Clamp (Okimono Kimono).

* Vertigo's Joe The Barbarian has been extended from six issues to eight issues, which if nothing else shows enough confidence in the project that they can handle a bigger, single trade. (via Sean Collins)

* it was its own story, but in case you missed it this was the big publishing news of the week: Kodansha finally confirms its move into the North American market as its own entity.

* the second biggest story and the subject of another pull-out was the publication of Planetary #27, the end to the high-quality Warren Ellis and John Cassaday adventure comics series and prolonged meditation on 20th Century imaginative literature. This also means the retirement of the "how late is the next issue of Planetary?" joke, with the honors of the last one I believe going to Blair Butler at the Eisners last summer. Anyway, here's Warren Ellis on the issue, including hints at some of the difficulties along the way.

* the third biggest publishing news story of the week, and one I haven't touched at all until now, is Alan Moore readying an underground... um... lifestyle magazine, maybe? That's not my own doubts about the project in the question mark, only my ability to describe it succinctly. It sounds awesome, and includes plans for an eight page section to be filled in by a local participant where the work is distributed.

* an English-language version of Blexbolex's 2008 Destination Abécédaria will be published in the UK by Nobrow. That's pretty cool.

* the writer Sean Kleefeld provides an update on his fanthropology project.

* Fantagraphics has recently posted its releases for December and January. Companies do this all the time, so I'm not sure why I've picked up on Fantagraphics doing it and bookmarked them, but as the deed's already done it's always fun to look at a publisher's output for a certain period.

* finally, it looks like Kevin Scalzo will be the subject of a forthcoming volume in D&Q's Petits Livres line. Or maybe it's the Petit Livre line and you just refer to them in multiples as Petits Livres. Whatever. I don't care what they call it as long as I get a Kevin Scalzo book.


 
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