Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* I hear that IDW will indeed be pushing its deluxe treatment of the Rocketeer material through standard market channels by the end of the year. That was at one point one of the books people wondered about maybe not showing up until 2010.

* Allan Holtz notes here that he's working on a massive Stripper's Guide book. That could be pretty amazing.

* not comics: Dash Shaw's IFC series The Unclothed Man In The 35th Century AD is now on-line.

* Boom! is starting to push its more successful comics efforts into an ongoing series format.

* the Dabel Brothers studio, which built its reputation on partnerships with genre authors for comics versions of their successful titles, has found a new partner in a long series of partners -- Dynamite, which looks like it could be a final home for DB. That pairing makes a lot of sense, and should be a marriage of strengths.

* the big news of the week for art comics fans is word on boutique-style comics publisher Drawn and Quarterly's spring 2010 plans, rounding into shape via catalog and Amazon.com listing. They include:

+ a major new work in May from Daniel Clowes (Wilson, marking the publisher's first project with the esteemed comics author and Clowes' first work in... five years, maybe? More? That has to be one of the big books for 2010. They're also doing brand-new books with James Sturm (Market Day, April) and Keith Jones (Catland Empire, May). Jones may be familiar to those of you following D&Q's petits livres line, which in May will offer up Sonja Ahlers' The Selves.

+ collections will include April's Indoor Voice by Skim co-author Jillian Tamaki, and more of their first class English-language archival work with Nancy Vol. 2 (April) and the long-anticipated Walt And Skeezix Book Four: 1927-1928 (June).

+ two great translated projects, both in May: Yoshiro Tatsumi's key gekiga work Black Blizzard, and the fifth of the company's delightful Moomin collections. That's the first and final volume and you really need to own them all.

That looks like a very strong selection of books, and if I stand out on my porch and pose like Dr. Strange, I can feel building anticipation for Wilson.

* the FPI Blog caught that Liz Prince will be doing comics for the If You Make It site. There's a first one up through the link.

* according to a brief at Anime News Network, Akira Toriyama and artist Masakazu Katsura are launching a serial in Weekly Young Jump called Jiya.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com walks us through plans for Tokyopop's imprint Blu.

* the mighty Jim Woodring got his hands on a few copies of the Norwegian version of the forthcoming Weathercraft, and would like to sell one to you.

* I may be getting one or two thing wrong in terms of context -- I have no idea if this is work that's already been out or is coming out for example -- but a collaboration between Jean David Morvan and Jiro Taniguchi about someone with Down Syndrome was very much not on my radar.

* Yen will publish Gossip Girl adaptations. I'm not sure if there was a tussle over rights to comics versions of that property, but I have to imagine that's potential big win for Yen. If the television show isn't on your radar enough that you're aware of its background, it came from a series of successful Young Adult prose novels.

* finally, NBM has translated for English-language audiences another of those comics done in conjunction with the Louvre. This one is called On The Odd Hours and is by Eric Liberge. It will be out in February.


 
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