Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* we're starting to get a sense of what books are going to debut at CAB. One such book is the previously-announced Jim Rugg volume Notebook Drawings 2012-2014, in which the above art appears.

* I completely missed this one, and it's more than a week in the rearview mirror now. Apparently Dover Books announced through Calvin Reid and PW their plans for an ambitious line of graphic novel reprints. They're focusing on out-of-print work that matches up with their prose catalog, and will start with the wonderful Sam Glanzman autobiographical work A Sailor's Story. That was by far the most curious -- and I think best -- of the early line of Marvel "graphic novels" album-format comics. Those two books will become one at Dover. Another high-profile acquisition of interest is a fully-completed Puma Blues. Drew Ford is spearheading that effort.

* here's a note about forthcoming comics from Ben Acker and Ben Blacker.

* Mark Evanier presents the next Groo series that will be done with Dark Horse. Anything Sergio Aragones makes is worth our attention and time.

* Calvin Reid has a nice article up at PW about a solid publishing news story coming out of NYCC: that Vertical is going to cluster its comics work into a Vertical Comics line, in part to distinguish that work from the prose they publish but also it seems to be a bit more ambitious in terms of overall output. Reid points out that the digital rights are kind of all over the place with some of these works. I enjoy the Vertical manga offerings in terms of the curatorial service it provides; I'm not going to be interested in everything they do, but there's a higher percentage there than with a lot of companies that focus on this material.

* beyond that one, it's been difficult for me to track what publishing news from NYCC was exclusive/new to that show, but certainly the big publishers participate in that event as a focus to get their latest news out there. Let me power through a bunch here. The one that jumped out at me the most was the IDW announcement they'll be doing a bunch of work with Marvel -- the strip featuring Marvel's Spider-Man will be released in that format, that same article notes IDW employing its super-hit micro fun pack packaging to some Marvel work, while an ambitious series of Artist's Edition format books based on characters and key creators will also see the light of day. IDW also had a pair of property-type announcements: Millennium and the Dirk Gently character. DC announced a digital comic series based on the iteration of Wonder Woman that appeared on TV in the 1970s. Marvel announced a pair of wars -- Secret and Civil -- as line-connecting events. Initial reaction seems to have split down the lines of how well-received the original versions of those storylines were received by hardcore fans. Making their Gwen Stacy version of Spider-Man an ongoing and putting the writer G. Willow Wilson on an X-Men book were pair of other Marvel announcements that generated some on-line buzz. Oni will be doing a Zac Gorman-written Rick And Morty comic. I read a tweet or two that pointed out this Satoshi Kon book discussed at the show was a repeat of mid-summer news; this is very true. Dark Horse announced the writer Brian Wood would be working on a video game adaptation they're doing. I'm sure I'm missing a ton of stuff.

* congratulations to the very talented Oliver East on the completion of his next published work.

* French-language readers will apparently get 320 pages of new Cyril Pedrosa about a year from now.

* finally, I'm pretty sure at least some of the stuff up at his site is from a forthcoming major work by Brecht Evens. If it's not, let me pretend it is. His work is so striking.


 
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