Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* First Second formally released its cover to Box Brown's Andre the Giant biography via an interview on Grantland.

* there's an article over at Robot 6 about Marvel rolling out a new publishing initiative next Spring. I don't have a ton of sympathy for the position expressed in that article -- granted, I could be losing some context -- that Marvel is as susceptible to market forces as claimed that they have to indulge in various number practices and relaunches in order to stay viable. Marvel actually shapes the market and is inured from most of its whims to a significant degree.

* here's a look over Hayao Miyazaki's shoulder at the manga he's been working on.

* in this report on Comic Arts Brooklyn, Ryan Sands of Youth In Decline mentions that "I'm stoked for a more ambitious 2014, with new books from Nick Sumida and Mickey Zacchilli, the Thickness anthology, our first fiction book featuring Anthony Ha's short stories, and four issues of Frontier! ...and more!" So that's all good news.

* two different people at two different shows asked me what Vanessa Davis is up to -- she had been much more prolific at one point in the past few years via regular comics posted on the Internet, and now not so much. She says that as far as comics go she's working on her next book for Drawn and Quarterly, "but it's very slow-going." She also pointed out that she does do comics for anthologies when the mood and opportunity strike and they appear from time to time.

* Fantagraphics has been walking through the books that its Kickstarter will allow them to publish in various posts accessible here. Looks like a fine season.

* here's a nice piece on the expansion of Disney's comics programs.

* finally, I totally missed this informal preview of Beautiful Darkness, including news that D+Q is moving the Kerascoet/Fabien Vehlmann work back to late February.


 
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