Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked

By Tom Spurgeon

* the anthology Lapin is making another comeback (its third?), with a cover by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot. The focus will be on young cartoonists, as it was in 1992 when the magazine -- through which many of the major alt-comics talents of Europe were introduced to audiences far and wide -- began.

* the best North American news of recent vintage has to be the approximate street date of April given for D&Q's publication of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life, which looks astounding. Please go read about it.

* while you're over there, look at previews for George Sprott and Melvin Monster. What other preview treasures lie waiting for us in the D&Q catalog section?!? Here's another one!

* the former Blog@Newsarama team has reformed under the name Robot 6, hosted by Newsarama rival Comic Book Resources and sponsored by IDW. I imagine this is old news by now (I'm writing this entry back on January 1), but I see this more as a publishing news story than a strong, top-the-blog news story at this point. The official line-up is, according to John Parkin, "myself, Chris Mautner, Kevin Melrose, Melissa Krause, Lisa Fortuner, Tom Bondurant, Tim O'Shea, Michael May, Jennifer de Guzman and our newest addition, Larry Young." I wish them the best of luck.

* the cartoonist Geoff Grogan has rolled his Look Out! Monsters comic into a small press publishing outfit, L.o.M.

* apparently, Richard Thompson will do the cover for Stay Tooned! #3.

* a web site called ComicsCareer.com has announced its intention to run 365 interviews with 365 creators over the next calendar year, and they've invited you to join them by filling out an interview survey. That may indicate something a bit more Byron Allen than David Frost, but a platform is a platform.

* what if they serialized a Chris Ware story in a major literary magazine and nobody ever talked about it?

* here's some more great news: NBM is continuing their sampling run into some of the older comic strips with Bringing Up Father, coming in May.

* finally, the artist Joao Ruas has taken over for James Jean as the cover artist on DC/Vertigo's Fables. That's worth noting, I think, because of how many awards and how much attention Jean won for his cover work on the series. Ruas' first issue is #83. I think there was a bit of a splash when Jean announced his departure last Fall.
 
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