Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

I have a bunch of stuff this week that's a combination of new and old material and I get back up to speed.

* Fantagraphics sent out a press release that they're doing two with Lucy Knisley, both related to travel: An Age Of License in Fall 2014; Displacement in Summer 2015. The latter is 128 pages while the former is over 200. I apologize if they released this information through some site or another; I didn't see it until the e-mail. Anyway, that's a nice match, and further established that company's reach into the group of cartoonists under 40 along with folks like Chuck Forsman, Simon Hanselmann, Lilli Carré and Julia Gfrorer.

* totally missed that Norm Feuti's Gil ended at the beginning of the year. It ran for about two years: it looks like it was the syndicate's decision to pull the plug based on the level of sales and projected future sales. I know that was a real labor of love for the cartoonist, and while I haven't caught up with it since the syndication packet, but he's a very good gag writer. I learned this from Buzz Dixon, who is not pleased.

* BOOM! Box announced Lumberjanes from Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Ellis and I believe Shannon Watters. That's their creator-driven line. I think a lot of the comics they're planning could do rather well: there's a huge pool of talent they've worked with at BOOM! that make comics that seem way more commercially viable than similar work from 30 years ago, projects that could stand to benefit from the market presence that the publisher will provide them.

* good to hear that the Stumptown series will return to Oni Press. I think that's solid work. Apparently, Matthew Southworth will not be involved.

* this is about two weeks old -- well, it's a couple of months old but it came out for public consumption on January 1 at I think Robot 6: the Massive book once planned for PictureBox has found a 2014 home at Fantagraphics. That's good news; that's a lot of high-end work that hasn't been seen in English-language versions to a great extent, and anything involving Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins or Chip Kidd is going to be interesting -- the three of them together is ridiculous.l

* if you're look for some Gengoroh Tagame before Massive hits the stands, looks like you'll be able to do that in March with an English-language release from Bruno Gmunder.

* here's a sneak peak at the Fantagraphics trade release of the Love Bunglers material from Jaime Hernandez, aka "the comic that made everyone cry."

* here's an official press release for the forthcoming IDW anthology In The Dark; that's an eclectic group of creators, many of whom haven't worked on that kind of release before, at least not to my knowledge.

* looks like Gerald Jablonski's work is available again. Accept no substitutes.

* a version of Airboy by James Robinson and Greg Hinkle is kind of a weird project, but a lot of the writer's best works has come from pushing back against some of the more staid properties from old comic books.

* Terry Beatty takes over from Graham Nolan on Rex Morgan, MD.

* the Incal sequel material is set for English-language translation.

* finally, I totally, totally missed this the last several months; it got lost in my bookmarks but I dug it up when I was looking at Alan Moore-related things. I think Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill are both formidable comics makers. I don't always agree with elements of the stories presented in these League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen books, but that goes all the way back to the use of violence in those comics from issue #1 or so. I'm always interested in seeing new ones, and it looks like I will sooner rather than later.


 
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