Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* the cover to Hillary Chute's January volume Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, And Documentary Form is beautiful and terrifying.

* I'm not sure how I get this into my bookmarks, so apologies for what is likely a swipe from a better blog run by someone with a memory, but here's a look at a book-illustration project by Hayao Miyazaki, a former up-and-coming cartoonist that I think did movies or something for several years.

* Johanna Draper Carlson notes that Akiko Higashimura's Princess Jellyfish manga is coming to North American, English-translated shores, via Kodansha; good news for the many fans of the anime version. We'll get at least 12 volumes.

* totally missed this straight-up publishing news announcement of a kind I wish we saw more: Stone Bridge Press will be doing a 900+ page, one-volume The Osamu Tezuka Story in 2016. Translation by Frederik L. Schodt. I have very little information on that book's provenance, although it looks like it has an official stamp on it from Tezuka Productions.

* here's something I hadn't noticed, having missed Scott Dunbier's heads-up e-mail: the role of the San Diego Comic Art Gallery in rolling out an Artifact Edition of the early Marvel Star Wars comic. It makes sense in the same way that a publisher with a store might have an initial signing at the store, or a book released in proximity to a festival or can might debut there. I guess we've seen something similar with the way that Scot Eder Gallery coordinates a show with Comic Arts Brooklyn and perhaps a release making its debut there. At any rate, there's a show for you to go see if your holiday plans have a Southern California element.

* an article at The Beat notes another extension for the Secret Wars series. As the article points out, that's a pretty good superhero event series that deserves whatever page count is necessary to hit its landing. The question is how this might harm the subsequent roll-out, which is already months along. I don't think that's a big deal in terms of doing damage to comics sales on that series. I think the desire to buy what's important protects series like that, particularly right now. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this were a factor in the sort-of relaunch not hitting as hard as it might have. It doesn't have an effect on the hardcore audience, but I think a lot of noise surrounding comics lines in general can force the almost hardcore audience into more cautious buying strategies.

* hey, there's going to be a Dragon Ball zine.

* Kevin from Czap Books wrote in to note that Laura Knetzger's Bug Boys Vol. 1 will make its formal debut at Comic Arts Los Angeles.

* congratulations to Jan Eliot on 20 years of Stone Soup; she recently moved to Sunday-only and after that incredible period of time I can't blame her. It's only in reference to other strips that nearly 20 years of dailies looks like a modest effort.

* finally, two established 2000AD series are being brought to Polish readers in Polish.


 
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