Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* I'm a bit late on catching up to this, but Calvin Reid had a very nice article several days ago describing Metropolitan's English-language publication of Riad Sattouf's L'Arabe Du Futur. That book is award-winning and much-lauded, so I greatly look forward to it.

* there will be a bunch of small press material debuting at this weekend's CAKE festival. You won't find a comic from a nicer, harder-working creator than Will Dinski; this new one is called An Honest Performance. The best way to catch a gander at the group of debuts is probably through this tagged index.

* Erica Henderson will join Chip Zdarsky in the connected-universe version of Jughead that's in the works.

* Dark Horse is planning to publish one more cycle in the Paul Tobin/Juan Ferreyra Colder series starting in September with Colder: Toss The Bones #1.

* Colleen Doran writes about working on the forthcoming Stan Lee comics-format memoir.

* a sneak peek of a work coming from AdHouse.

* I missed that Marvel is going to do a fast-forward trick on their line continuity in order to set their post-Secret Wars narrative reality in stone a bit. Marvel usually does this kind of standard baseline reset very poorly, so we'll see how this one goes. I'm worried a bit about the talent levels there in a way I haven't been for a while and I'm generally worried about these companies keeping stand-alone titles at a high level the way the infrastructure of the industry works now.

* finally, I love this old-school Lampoon-tribute cover for the forthcoming gag collection of Charles Rodrigues' work, coming out from Fantagraphics. Just the fact that there are Charles Rodrigues books is astonishing to me, and a testament to how deep some of the publisher will go to find excellent work to reprint.


 
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