Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



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By Tom Spurgeon

* it doesn't get any bigger in terms of art comics publisher and art comics maker partnerships right now than the program developed around the work of Jacques Tardi at Fantagraphics. Kim Thompson walks through some of his thinking about the next few releases.

* this looks really promising: a 164-page book featuring an international cast of female cartoonists, with guest-editing by Ryan Sands. Who wouldn't want some of that?

* JK Parkin profiled Art For Hope in a post at Robot 6 late last week; that's a Viz Media digital anthology in support of ongoing disaster reconstruction. Speaking of Parkin, he also has a summary post up on the 2012 plans at Dark Horse for their popular BPRD property: five mini-series all around a central major plot point/development.

* the Fantagraphics blog mentions that Rick Altergott is doing a comic for VICE. I'd be upset that I didn't know about this until now if I weren't so happy to know about it, period.

* like the professional journalist he is, Paul Constant mostly forgoes the "me wanty" approach favored by lesser writers (like me) and profiles in succinct fashion the mini-comics program being offered by Fantagraphics this holiday season.

* David Welsh writes about a couple of shorter Natsume Ono projects just waiting out there for some enterprising person to license.

* Matthew Badham e-mailed to remind that Leah Moore and John Reppion are publishing some comics on-line for free, which I take is part of broader promotional initiative. Badham also pointed to this post from Grant Goggans about a largely under-discussed publishing initiative from a few years back: an attempt to get the various 2000 AD properties over with North American audiences. While I realize this column is mostly forward-looking, there has to be something in there that could inform some future endeavor.

* Chris Arrant profiles the next project for Freakangels artist Paul Duffield.

* finally, it's always good news when another effort from Benjamin Marra is available for purchase. I sort of wish I could buy them off of some Rexall magazine stand stuffed behind the Archies the way I did Daddy Cool, but there's no getting everything one wants from life.

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