Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

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* a new attempt at doing Corto Maltese in English is always good news.

* speaking of good news, this is nice for Papercutz: their graphic novel Ninjago #1 had a huge initial print run. Johanna Draper Carlson unpacks.

* Marc Arsenault enthuses over a snappy-looking new mini-comic from Graham Annable.

* not comics: Justin J. Major sent in a reminder just now that they're releasing/have just released an Art Of The Hobbit book featuring a bunch of unpublished art by JRR Tolkien. I really like Tolkien's art, both on the middle-earth material and with the Father Christmas letters. In fact, my enthusiasm for all things Tolkien as a single-digit-aged lad probably helped me a great deal in preparing for liking comics art that wasn't highly-rendered and anatomically-obsessed.

* James Sime has a photo up here of that new "martini edition" of the first of Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations. That's a straight-up deluxe edition as opposed to a new edition that's made deluxe, if that distinction makes any sense. Among the many extras is the interview that ran here at CR featuring Cooke, Ed Brubaker and editor Scott Dunbier. Cooke talked about that project and a bunch of others at last weekend's Long Beach Con. This includes a fifth Parker book.

* one of the things I suggested needed to happen for DC to make their New 52 initiative work in the long term is that a couple of their younger/newer writers working the slightly more experimental series needed to start hitting with fans. This is a good sign.

* two kickstarter-funded projects one may look forward to seeing: Motherlover and Rub The Blood.

* Jason Shiga's Meanwhile is coming to the iPad. I can't think of any way to really embellish that one, but it's good news, I think.

* Brandon Graham will have work in a forthcoming issue of Dark Horse Presents, which is interesting to me in that -- and I say this as someone pleased by this -- the series thus far had a real "Traveling Wilburys" feel to it so far.

* Zak Sally provides photo evidence that he's printed the Sammy The Mouse book.

* here are details on Kramers Ergot Vol. 8. I can't remember if I've seen this or not.

* finally, I don't know that I was aware that Evan Dorkin was doing a Milk And Cheese hardcover through Dark Horse, as opposed to another edition of that material through longtime publisher SLG. I either wasn't paying attention, or this was done quietly -- making that kind of move quietly makes a lot of sense, actually.

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