Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* count Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash as creators debuting works at this weekend's Comic Arts Brooklyn. It's a new book from the Bow-Wow series of wordless picture books, Bow-Wow's Nightmare Neighbors. The Neal Porter Books/Roaring Book Press won't be in bookstores for some weeks yet. It looks something like the image above.

* I'm always a little confused in terms of how Nobrow puts things out for different markets and how they announce books as a result, but I think this Wren McDonald book might be his first stand-alone from an established publisher. That comes ou in August.

* John Pham previews forthcoming work from a future issue of Epoxy.

* yesterday's news-to-follow in the mainstream comics world was DC making official that it would be doing a multiple-worlds event series to coincide with the final move of the offices from New York to Burbank. The article promises that the series will sort out some of the lingering questions from the 2011 reboot of the line. I always find it a little odd that big event series get tasked with editorial clean-up like this, but it's kind of a mainstream comics tradition at this point. They're also working with a new writer for the bulk of this, which is astonishing to me but they've been pretty bold that way over the last few years.

* let's do one more quick CAB preview link, Glancing from Conor Stechschulte.

* here's a preview of the James Stokoe cover for Prophet Vol. 4. That looks pretty great.

* Mark Evanier, who consults on the Pogo series that Fantagraphics has been publishing, celebrates the release of volume three. It's actually pretty amazing that series has continued: there's nothing more difficult than publishing a strip from that specific time period because of the varying quality of the clipped copies means you have to track down either syndicate sheets or originals. Also, the series lost one of its driving forces, Kim Thompson. Pogo is a great, important strip that needs to be reprinted now for the last of its living, saw-it-syndicated fans and, as it gets into libraries, the generations that have no memory of it in newspapers whatsoever.

* finally, this image for a cover to Massive the gay erotic manga anthology from Fantagraphics and spiritual follow-up to the Tagame book that Anne Ishii and Chip Kidd put together for PictureBox has been around for too long with too short of a turnaround to be news, but I like the cover and I like Ishii, Kidd and Graham Kolbeins. The comics look like a lot of fun, too.


 
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