Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* we're getting the CAB debut announcements now, such as the above new thing from the cartoonist Katie Skelly.

* I'm not sure what's going on here, but if it's new Andrea Bruno, count me in. In fact, if it's old Andrea Bruno, count me in.

* the mainstream stuff I encountered this week is mostly big-picture hints at series and line expansions. There's something old-fashioned and sweet about looking at solicitations and trying to suss out big changes in serial comics narratives. Marvel is apparently expanding their "Season One" line to encompass more retold and expanded origins as befits their retellings of various Marvel characters' stories on their TV shows and in their movies. Steve Morris unpacks a bunch of event-series announcements one right on top of another. That's too bad if that's what they're doing, at least from my perspective as a reader: I think a lot of their books feel overstuffed and labored right now.

* the writer Mark Millar is teasing a new project -- it might be announced by now, I can never quite get the hang of the way folks do announcements right now. At any rate, Millar is very good at kneading the PR until it takes the shape he wants it to shape.

* it looks like we're going to get a giant Vincent Mahé book late next summer/early next fall. That could be something. We're also going to get a massive Hector Oesterhald/Solano Lopez collaboration. I didn't even know that one was on the radar.

* finally, Drew Ford at Dover Books sent along the below cover image for their re-release of JM DeMatteis' and Paul Johnson's Mercy, which is a one-time Vertigo book being reprinted.


 
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