Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* I've been in the bad habit of forgetting to visit the Top Shelf 2.0 site. Some of the latest includes offerings like Life In Low Resolution and a constant tossing-back-up of stuff from the archives, like an on-line representation of that Kevin Cannon comic that he did on planks that can be assembled to form a toy car.

* the blogger, artist, historian and cartoonist Gerry Alanguilan is gauging interest in a stand-alone reprint of his Humanis Rex!.

* nearly everyone and their mothers will have written a story about a Walking Dead reprint weekly starting in 2011 by the time this rolls out some 30 hours later. I'm all for any format jiggering anyone wants to try if they think it will move copies and is executed in an up front way, and this sounds like it meets both criteria. Of greater potential impact in the reaching-new-audiences kind: a devoted on-line app.

* speaking of Robert Kirkman's well-received comic book turned who-knows television series, the good folks over at Robot 6 point out that the simultaneous digital/print release of The Walking Dead is a go. Neither the earth nor the heavens ripped open to reveal the mad, industry-destroying scramble of a million demons or angels, so that's something.

* missed it: Questionable Content has a print trade out. Also, Peter David is writing digital comics for I guess Disney.

* no one talks about Lords Of The Planet-targeted magazine Monocle as a comics-friendly publication, but it sort of is -- they've serialized at least one long story and have run comics-related articles at least a few times. Their general tendency towards sponsored content meets comics content as described here.

* the writer Kurt Busiek provides a preview of the cover and some of the interior art to The Witchlands #1. At least I think that the "1" means "#1."

* it occurs to me that this is the kind of thing that kills the direct market in the one of a million tiny cuts sense. I don't understand why DC wouldn't be better served in the long term canceling that title with its current high-profile creative team's departure, particularly if it means they're putting people on it who are overworked. On the other hand, the fill-in team seems popular with a certain kind of DC Comics fan, and Paul Cornell is a potential star writer in the making.

* this post dissects changes at British comics market stalwart Dandy.

* the Chicago Tribune has picked up two Creators Syndicate strips.

* in other strip news, Bill Hinds is ending his all-ages sports feature Cleats.

* as Julia Wertz and her kickstarter.com campaign promised, Fart Party Vol. 1 is back in print.

* finally, check out that cover on the imminent David B. all-ages work The Littlest Pirate King. For that matter, Bleeding Cool had a couple of nice publishing news posts about my long-ago employer: they'll be releasing a David B. book of short stories late next summer, and they're going to do a 2010 Jacques Tardi release around that same time.


 
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