Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* there's a bunch of stuff with which this column needs to catch up, and it might take a couple of week. My apologies.

* the big news since this column last ran is the New York Review Of Books announced a comics-publishing effort called New York Review Comics (NYRC). First up is a pretty great group: a reprint of Mark Beyer's Agony with an introduction by that work's great fan Colson Whitehead. The other spring authors are Blutch and Glen Baxter. The second half of 2015 is set to feature Pushwagner, Dominique Goblet and Abner Dean. We talked a bit about the room for quality reprint efforts when Dover Books launched its recent comics emphasis: this seems something similar for the arts crowd, and I'm greatly looking forward to the result. Abner Dean!

* with CAB and some of the other comics shows we're seeing material for sale on an advance basis that won't officially be published to a bit later. It's exciting to see all the new covers, like this one for the new John Pham.

* NBM announced its spring graphic novels line, and it's hard to imagine a better-looking quintet of books than the ones they're offering from Annie Goetzinger, Sean Michael Wilson, Kerascoet, Jiro Taniguchi, and the team of A. Dan/Maximilien Le Roy. That is handsome modern cartooning defined. The Taniguchi is the latest in their reprints of the Louvre series.

* there should be any number of debuts at Thought Bubble. Here's one.

* White Boy is imminent. That one's always been on the "It's hard to imagine any scenario by which someone is publishing a deluxe edition of that work" list for about 1000 years now. I'm actually considering the pre-offer, and I never consider pre-offers.

* Mark Millar and Stuart Immonen are working on something for Marvel's Icon imprint, not the jumping-est joint in comics in these days of an Image surge, but a viable option for creators with strong ties to the company. I'll read as much from Immonen as I can get my hands on, and 18 issues sounds like enough pages that the narrative should have room enough to breathe.

* speaking of MIllar, here are some general plans for those titles that he gathers under a kind of self-publishing, movie-ready, specialized imprimatur. I'm not that interested in franchised comics, and Chrononauts was severely not for me, but new Frank Quitely is always worth noting. He is a superior maker of genre comics.

* god bless the Latvians: š! #23 is imminent.

* this Richard Short comic I highlighted at one point to discuss its arrival has likely already arrived. Still a good-looking book, though, from an interesting publisher.

* this might be a way for a lot of people in the 35-55 age group to finally own and read the Ditko Dr. Strange work, a classic 1960s comic from Marvel's great run that's little collected or enthused over, for whatever reason.

* Michael Cho is a great choice for a month of variant covers, if we have to have variant covers, and these look handsome and striking. I'm still trying to figure out how me-as-consumer-only would be processing the variants thing.

* a new edition of anything with Enki Bilal's name on it is worth noting; that's a major, major work as well.

* finally, I nearly missed this bunch of pages at the FPI blog in support of the forthcoming Dinomania. That one looks really good.


 
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