Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News

By Tom Spurgeon

* Abraham Riesman's interview with Frank Miller is noteworthy in a publishing news sense for three projects Miller would like to write. One is a fourth installment in the Dark Knight series. The others are children's books: a general one, perhaps mythologically-based, and a story about the Carrie Kelly character as a Nancy Drew-style detective.

* Kodansha has licensed the one-volume Fairy Tail Zero, from Hiro Mashima.

* here's the musical-chairs news story of the week: various creators being moved off of certain titles at DC for certain creators to be moved on. Mid-series changes like these don't really have an impact unless one of the teams turns out to be exceptional. At the same time, relaunching the titles or some more drastic move can exhaust the market. This is a fundamental, structural elements of the current market kind of issue.

* the forthcoming issue of Taddle Creek look stuffed with emerging cartoonist superstars.

* finally, you can never trust the dates on far-off Amazon.com listings, but it looks like we'll get a first full-length solo book from the very talented Joseph Remnant in 2016. That's great news.
 
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