April 29, 2009
Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked
* Tom Devlin at Drawn and Quarterly talked a bit about their planned childrens' book line
on their blog. It's to be called D+Q Enfant, and given their art direction standards and general, displayed line-wide quality in the realm of comics, should be something to keep an eye on. That's going to be one of their offerings above.
* everybody gets excited about new book lines, but Devlin dropped another bomb yesterday afternoon, at least one I wasn't aware of.
D&Q is doing a book with Imiri Sakabashira called
The Box Man. Holy crap. I'll put one of the images at the bottom of this post so you can go "Holy Crap," too. I don't follow manga closely enough to declare with authority this is the first Sakabashira comic published in North America since a short story popped up in
Sake Jock, but that would be my hunch.
* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com had a bunch of single-project publishing announcements on their site in the lat few days. The Del Rey and Cartoon Network alliance
will result in comics featuring
The Secret Saturdays. Last Gasp
will be releasing a Junko Mizuno book with the awesome title of
Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu Vol. 1. IDW will be taking another stab at
re-launching Fallen Angel.
* the emerging webcomics cartoonist Kate Beaton has a book now;
there's a photo of it and everything. I thought it interesting that she may not have been keeping files when she first started. Anyway, you should buy one.
* the writer Katherine Dacey
has launched a manga-focused review and criticism site, with one of those names that makes you wonder why no one's used it yet.
* I received a press release earlier today that said
BrokenFrontier.com has relaunched with a new design and a focus on Web 2.0 capabilities. It didn't give the URL, but it wasn't tough to figure that out. The site looks nice. I don't really understand what the web 2.0 stuff means, but I never do. I didn't know that site was headquartered in Brussels, or I did know and forgot.
* finally, Brian Cronin's book from Penguin on various comics industry legends and rumors
has reached the preview stage.
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