Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

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* IDW's next big ol' Artist's Edition book will feature John Romita Sr. and a run of his Amazing Spider-Man work. That should be fun to see at that size.

* this site has done a pretty lousy job of covering publishing announcements from Conundrum Press, so let's try and make up for that this week by using three of their images with three of their stories. At top is the cover image for their Michel Rabagliati book that they'll be launching at TCAF 2012. At left is an image for the book Valentin from Pascal Girard and Yves Pelletier, for which Conundrum recently acquired English-language rights for Fall 2012 release. At the bottom of this post is the new Dave Collier book they have at the presses.

* the D+Q people are so excited about the new Lynda Barry, they're having trouble writing a proper blog post headline.

* Todd Klein takes a look at the new omnibus edition of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's out from Vertigo -- I guess that firewall between DC and Alan Moore completely disappeared after a while -- and some of their credit and design choices are odd

* not comics: Jordan Mechner has an e-book up about the creation of his Prince Of Persia videogame, one of the most diversely utilized video game brands of the last couple of decades.

* the writer Warren Ellis chastises Tor.com for the underwhelming nature of their first foray into webcomics publication.

* Philip Nel's biography of Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss has a title.

* the thing I like about the idea of DC potentially doing more Watchmen comics is that on a certain conventional-wisdom-of-the-comics-community level it's so evil that there should be a promotional video with everyone wearing mustaches they would twirl as they talk about it. Another thing that pops to mind is that even when I was a teen reading those comics I remember feeling -- for maybe the first time with a comic I enjoyed -- that I didn't want to read any more comics about those characters. I'm sure tons of people do, though.

* Brian Heater announces the one-pager Engadget: The Comic.

* what Andi Watson is up to.

* here's a short report at the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com on Chip Kidd's 2012 Batman book.

* the writer Matt Fraction talks about his new Defenders comic book series. The thing that kept this article in my memory is that instead of going to the original concept Fraction looked to the Steve Gerber-written run of issues. Those were some entertaining comics. Also, by using a previous run as his reference point rather than some conceptual hook, the new comic's core concept more explicitly becomes "characters that can't handle their own series right now."

* finally, I'm not certain I was aware of a Tomer Hanuka art book.

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