Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

what's coming out, who's doing it and what it's going to look like; gathered into one place once a week for ease of consumption

I could put "missed it" next to a bunch of these since it's been a couple of weeks, but instead of that visual distraction I hope you'll just assume that there are going to be some stories that haven't been reported here yet and that I'm fully aware of that fact. Thanks!

* the folks at Charlie Hebdo are coming out with a line of books as a supplement to their popular, satirical magazine. Unless they already have a line of books and I'm reading this incorrectly, which is entirely possible.

* the agent Judith Hansen laughs in the face of the collapse of the international economic system and the slow, ongoing implosion of book publishing with placing not one but two high-profile placements: 1) Amelia Rules! to Ginee Seo Books, both to republish existing work and as the home of newer volumes, and 2) Raina Telgemeier's Smile: A Dental Drama to Scholastic as a full-color stand-alone in 2010.

* the longtime editor at Dark Horse Comics Scott Allie will write a Solomon Kane mini-series; this nugget comes in the middle of a longer article about Robert E. Howard projects at the company including Kull that will launch one guesses as a result of their success with Conan. I don't read a bunch of comics like that, but I like the idea of publishers jumping into bed with various authors. I really should be able to buy Professor Challenger comics whenever I stumble into a comics shop.

* the sometimes silent-narrative maker Eric Drooker has a book of postcards out. That's one of the images up top there.

* the webcomic Elf 'n Troll ends one week from tomorrow.

* the much enthused-about manga Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, by Masayuki Ishikawa, will start serialization in translated-into-English form in Fall 2009.

* rumors persist that at some point we'll see new, proper, sustained translation of the Corto Maltese series.

* the creative-and-otherwise team of Kathryn and Stuart Immonen are going to go all fancy hardcover-like with the second print iteration of their Never As Bad As You Think on-line project.

* speaking of deluxe edition, Rick Veitch has announced that the recently out-of-print Brat Pack will be supplanted on the market in Spring 2009 by a big ol' deluxe version.

* the web resource Good Comics For Kids announced their move to the School Library Journal site. Actually, that's one old enough they could have gone and come back by now.

* the vastly under-appreciated Andi Watson has done a 30-image folio called Chat Noir for Paris' La comete de Carthage store.

* the man who brought the world Married With Children comics, Tony Caputo has a new graphic novel line planned, and apparently his how-to book on graphic novels sold an astonishing 125,000 copies. Fangoria is apparently back in the comics publishing business as well.

* I keep on forgetting that Fantagraphics is doing a Sam's Strip collection in December. I'm quite grateful for these collections of strips like that and last year's Betsy and Me. While the Internet has been a great vehicle for republishing a lot of limited-success newspaper strip work, I love having complete volumes in print.

* finally, you know comics has changed when the late Will Eisner's books at WW Norton receive so little in the way of straight-up press: here's an exception, a nice piece at PW about the status of Eisner's teaching books including the one he was working on when he passed away.
 
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