Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* announced over the weekend was Desperado becoming an imprint at IDW. That's the indie comics company that splits time between art books featuring cartoonists and more traditional comics, headed by Joe Pruett of Negative Burn fame. Desperado left a special arrangement with Image in 2007. It has books planned by George Perez, Tony Harris and Dave Dorman, with more to come.

* Chris Grine has announced a new volume in his Chickenhare series.

* Karl Stevens described his plans for 2010 when I asked him to. "I'm planning a new book for either May or June. It's going to be the Failure comics that were published in the Boston Phoenix from this past year, plus unpublished color and black and white work that ties it together. There will also be a gallery show of the originals at the Carroll and Sons gallery here in Boston of all the originals opening June 20 through the end of August, I think."

* CBR explains the background behind the forthcoming Hero Initiative book featuring the work of Ed Hannigan. I did not know the archetypal 1980s superhero cover artist suffered from MS. I love that these projects are being done, although I worry that we don't have enough of an industry to push these things over the top the way they need to.

* missed it: I did not know that Stephen DeStefano was doing a book with Fantagraphics. Very good news.

* I guess the popular comic book Invincible changes its numbering in February? Either that, or this is a one-shot. Anyway: old/new costume.

* the cartoonist Jeff Lemire has apparently revamped his site. That's his Mister Miracle, below.

* I'm not certain if variant covers is a strategy that will ever take hold in alternative book publishing, but I don't mind if people try as long as the results are as pretty as this.

* the cartoonist Scott Kurtz is doing a one-sheet print of his recent storyline "The Incident." I'm surprised more cartoonists don't do story-based prints when they're well-received like that one.

* the CBLDF has put together a nice print featuring work by Neil Gaiman and Jim Lee.

* Richard Thompson has released a cover rough for a forthcoming treasury edition collection of his comic strip Cul-De-Sac. I hope this means that Thompson's strip will have a two-avenue book publishing strategy for as long as Thompson continues doing it.

* finally, our lead-off today was a cover image of a collected Grickle from Dark Horse, word of which is great, great news.


 
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