Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

* the writer Kurt Busiek has re-launched his web site, and among its many features offer up a blog. Kurt Busiek always wins when he's on the road, so for him to develop a home field is slightly terrifying. Anyway, there should be a bunch of cool ephemera on the site as well as news and opinions regarding the modern stuff, so bookmark away.

* the site Webcomics.com is back up and running.

* that Treehouse Of Horror with the KE gang sure looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

* there will apparently be a collection of Johnny Hart's religious-themed strips, I Did It His Way, according to a post at the Oregon Faith Report. This was something that the late cartoonist had been working on just before his 2007 passing.

* I think I'll be writing one of these every week until the damn thing is in my hands, but Brett Warnock notes that Alec: The Years Have Pants is at the printer. If all the other publishers suspended publication, the second half of 2009 would still be a big hit for this book.

* there will be an English-language version of Reinhard Kleist's Johnny Cash biography out this autumn.

* as expected, Fantagraphics will be releasing Jason's back catalog in books formatted like the recent Low Moon. Expect Almost Silent in early 2009, and What I Did in early 2010. That same post notes a new Jason book for Summer 2010, the full-color Werewolves of Montpellier.

* the Gosh! comics blog has news of two projects about which I knew nothing: a Sunday Press collection of early 20th Century Oz comic strips called Queer Visitors From The Marvelous Land Of Oz and The Actress and The Bishop #1, collecting some of Brian Bolland's sporadic feature of the same name.

* King Features has launched a feature called Captionary through its on-line services. As one might guess, this is feature where people are allowed to write captions for cartoons provided by a line-up of King Features cartoonists.

* finally, I'm probably playing catch-up with this one, but it looks like Dark Horse Presents, which was previously done in conjunction with the reeling social networking site MySpace, will stand on its own two legs at Dark Horse's site until MySpace stabilizes.


 
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