Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon:

* the Herb Block Foundation and WW Norton are co-producing a giant Herblock book this Fall, with a relative ton of event support in and around the late cartoonist's central location, the Washington DC area and 18,000 cartoon on a DVD included with the volume. Less than $30 after discounting, too. The book celebrates what would have been the cartoonist's 100th birthday.

* you don't see articles like this very often on editorandpublisher.com anymore. I'm not sure why.

* a few of my friends for whom this is the sole spur driving them into their local comics shop will be glad to hear that Joss Whedon has indicated he will do a smaller Buffy Season 9 following his successful and still yet to move into that last turn Buffy Season 8.

* Jason Aaron seems to have plans to continue his under-the-radar hit series Scalped past issue #50. He's currently contracted through #48.

* the team behind Baldo is stepping aside temporarily for four Hispanic cartoonists to create a series of Sunday strips in their place. This is being done in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month. The creators selected were David LEBO LeBatard, Carlos Saladana, David Alvarez and the team of Anthony Oropeza and Lorenzo Lizana. The first strip appears September 27.

* here's an unexpected treat: a designed-for-charity publication of 150 Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons and a concurrent auction featuring Bairnsfather originals. It's probably not totally fair to call Bairnsfather the Bill Mauldin of World War I, but both cartoonists' cartoons were a great comfort to the men in uniform.

* did I remember to link to this? I think I did.

* the venerable creator Irwin Hasen, best known as a comics educator and the co-creator of Dondi, will release a graphic novel through Vanguard Publications called Loverboy. The press seems to promise some blend of fictional and autobiographical elements. If nothing else, that name kills.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has a short article up on Tokyopop publishing plans through next spring as expressed through new titles.

* missed it: no more Magic Trixie for a while. There have been three books.

* missed it: there will almost certainly be a sequel to the comics series -- and forthcoming film property -- Kick-Ass.

* Faith Erin Hicks is the new author at First Second Books, with a work called Friends With Boys tentatively due in 2011.

* what if they ended your long-running strip but decided not to tell anyone?

* missed it: Chi's Sweet Home to Vertical.

* missed it: a bunch of forthcoming books and general plans from Les 400 Coups.

* finally, Tom Root is writing Jughead #200. Root is one of the main cogs at the television show Robot Chicken. If I'd seen more than three episodes of Robot Chicken, this is the sentence that would include a clever, referential joke. Anyway, it's sort of interesting how Archie is goosing interest in its various publications more actively than any time I can remember.


 
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