January 4, 2016
Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News
By Tom Spurgeon
* this morning Fantagraphics
formally announced its publication of a book collecting the Real Deal comics by Lawrence Hubbard and HP McElwee. There's an intriguing backstory and it also might bring to the forefront the publication of comics that satirize elements of violence, class tension and racial conflict through straight-faced yet over-the-top depictions of such elements. Its path to publishing should be fun, but I'm glad to see the work.
* one person suggested that to me that one of the most interesting things about 2015 was the relative lack of work from Alt-Comics Generation One. That is not the case in 2016, where Julie Doucet has a new book on the horizon, Peter Bagge has at least two collections coming including a major repackaging of the
Neat Stuff material, Gilbert Hernandez has I think maybe four between collections and the initial book version of
The Twilight Children, Daniel Clowes has a brand-new book among the year's most anticipated across the entire medium and so on. I think there are two books largely
about Joe Sacco, even. To me, I don't care about the age of the creator or their generation as much as the work on the page, and all of those creators still have it. It's going to be a fun 2016.
* Bruce Canwell
writes about some of the series continuation volumes at Library Of American Comics this year.
* finally, I nearly missed this altogether:
Brigid Alverson has manga plans for Boruto.
posted 3:25 pm PST |
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