Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* the cartoonist Katie Skelly just announced the first print publication of her rolling-out-on-tumblr-in-animated-form Pretty Vampire, which she'll sell at SPX. The paper is lavender-colored, which likely isn't a first but I bet there aren't five.

* Meghan Turbitt is another cartoonist putting last minute printing touches on work for this weekend's SPX. We could probably fill up a column with this material, and I'm sure SPX has. There are formal debuts and less-than-formal debuts galore. I think the impulse to have something to sell at a show like SPX or CAB is a good one.

* a snapshot-preview of art from a forthcoming Dame Darcy publication.

* IDW released official publication details on the forthcoming John Buscema Silver Surfer Artists Edition.

* Zak Sally provides an update on that forthcoming new issue of Recidivist.

* the next step for Marvel's plans with the Miracleman character involve an annual, new work and a lost script by Grant Morrison. I think that's a tough property. It's pushing against an icon that's been shined up for the movies in a way this is an unrecognizable commentary -- it's hard to do a grim and gritty version of Captain Marvel when Captain Marvel is grim and gritty. In addition, many of the details of the Alan Moore version have become part of the revisionist superhero gospel in a way they might look even old hat now.

* finally, I'm not sure how I failed to mention that First Second is bringing over the Last Man series for a run at the North American English-language book market. I've been wondering when someone was going to work with Bastien Vivès in a significant way here, and while this collaboration with Michael Sanlaville and Balak (there are other, single-volume contributors) wasn't my first guess as to what might make it over, I'm glad that some of his work will be available here and hope to see a bit more. Zainab Akhtar had the best write-up.


 
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