Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the Vertigo blog Graphic Content has a short preview up of the forthcoming Peter Bagge work Other Lives. Also previewed on a DC blog is the new Moon-Ba piece Daytripper.

* the retailer and writer Chris Butcher writes about the apparent homelessness of the Flight Explorer project.

* Shueisha is going to hit the US phone market hard with some of its best and most popular manga titles. In a way, these launches and major efforts have become quietly ubiquitous to the points it's difficult to point to any one announcement as a major thing, but I think this is the kind that might count. I've long felt that in general companies should be offering this material in matter-of-fact fashion on every platform that is viable, so it's nice to see people starting to push in that direction.

* so there's a new book out written in tweet form by Doonesbury character Roland Headley?

* the cartoonist Eddie Campbell notes the launch of Ed Pinsent's new web site.

* publisher Chris Oliveros announces the return to print of Matthew Forsythe's Ojingogo.

* not comics: the director Chris Brandt sent out an e-mail indicating that his Independents is now available via Netflix. That might be a perfect way to see the movie, a documentary about creativity in independent comics that I liked for the range of interviews, but which certain friends told me they liked only for the raw interviews rather than what the film does with them.

* the artist Al Bigley has launched a comics and pop culture blog.

* the prominent blogger Mike Lynch reminds us that IDW has a big King Aroo book coming out next month. Of all the reprints we've seen recently, this is one of the two or three I feel particularly lucky that we're going to see.

* the cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley talks about the 2010 UK publication of his Scott Pilgrim series.

* IDW is going to do a six-issue mini-series -- I'm guessing followed up by a book collecting same -- of Peter Beagle's Last Unicorn.

* in case you missed it in today's Random Comics News: the New York Times has a profile up of Joe Kubert today, where among other topics he talks about his forthcoming standalone book Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965. More at Robot 6 and The Bleed

* finally, Paul Gravett's recent Euro-Comics 101-type piece done in conjunction with Comica and now stored on his web site threw the spotlight on a dozen English-language translation projects for the UK market in 2010. Aya, Abouet & Oubrérie (Jonathan Cape); Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt (Dalen Books); King Of Flies, Mezzo & Pirus (Fantagraphics); Lou!, Julien Neel (Highland Books); Nemi, Lise Myhre (Titan); Requiem, Mills & Ledroit (Panini); Sleepyheads, Randall C. (Blank Slate); The Little Prince, Joann Sfar (Walker); The Wrong Place, Brecht Evans (D&Q); Valerian, Christin & Mézières (Cinebook); West Coast Blues, Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics); XIII, Van Hamme & Vance (Cinebook).


 
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