Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* it's not exactly brand-new news, but congratulations to the kuš! comics collective on the 20th issue of š! It looks like another swell issue, and will be out later this week.

* the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver shows off the cover for the forthcoming Fante Bukowski, this summer from Fantagraphics.

* one would assume from this notice of a Pope Hats #4 release party that Pope Hats #4 is imminent. What a nice purchase for TCAF.

* I'm not sure why I haven't reported this yet, my apologies, but apparently Locust Moon in Philadelphia has partnered with the local alt-weekly to do a comics section called Quarter Moon. That's a great idea for an institution like that to further solidify itself in terms of a certain form of comics expression within a region. Also, what a nice showcase for that city's considerable comics talent.

* right before the Angouleme Festival a date was set for the next Asterix album. While that may not be news for those that feel the series ended when its co-creator Albert Uderzo stepped aside (or perhaps when its writer Rene Goscinny died in 1977), they still sell extremely well and are a publishing event for that reason alone.

* Gilbert Hernandez talks with Steve Morris about Blubber, coming out from Fantagraphics. If Beto only expressed this side of his cartooning, he'd be a talent with which to reckon.

* I never ran this formal announcement of the publication of Craig Thompson's Space Dumplins.

* Chris Sims picks three weird comics from the latest round of DC announcements. I get what Sims means -- they're very odd choices for a company like that and the outlook they have -- although I bet in the end we'll wish at least two of those three comics were much, much weirder.

* another one I missed out on by not doing the column for a couple of weeks is Brian Michael Bendis' departure from his current X-Men related writing gig(s). I think he was good for those books in that he brought with his arrival some weight to change things around a bit, and while I know people run hot and cold on his books I think he's pretty consistent and that this work here was in that same general class of the other Marvel gigs that provided him with his name-above-the-title status. The mutants are a tough gig right now in terms of general story strategy: the cast is so big, there have been so many plotlines because of the split into multiple books, and the fans hold what they love about those book very close to their hearts.

* there are major interviews with Robert Williams and Ron Turner in this latest issue of Juxtapoz.
 
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