Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News

By Tom Spurgeon

* it's an amazing thing to me that pretty soon we'll get a $50 collection of Dame Darcy's Meat Cake comics. When Meat Cake was good, it was incredibly good, and you can see her influence in a number of comics-makers today. My impression back in the 1990s is that it was really touch and go in terms of the continuing publication of that comic. Those were rough times. These are better times today, at least in terms of comics publishing. I'm also glad for this book because I think the great female cartoonists 1980-2000 are undervalued and under-discussed just generally. Viva La Dame!

* here's a preview of Ted Rall's forthcoming book on Donald Trump.

* various mainstream, PR-driven announcements have popped up since last we looked. Marvel is going to revive its Champions title and use it to feature a number of its young heroes doing young-hero things young-heroically. The Genndy Tartakovsky comic starring Luke Cage announced GW Bush was still president is finally going to be published. There will be comics starring the asskicker formerly known as Thor, a 15-year-old as Iron Man and Victor Von Doom in close proximity to the Iron Man milieu. There will also be a comic about something involving Cyclops during a recent line-wide time-jump. I think the slow-burn heel turn that the Cyclops character experienced was one of the better line-wide developments at that company, so what they do with that creation of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's is of interest.

* reading a Tim Hensley post the other day informed me that there will be a Roman Muradov book out in both the English-language and French-speaking markets this year.

* finally, the writer Warren Ellis will be doing some work for Aftershock. I think that's always a good hire, he does solid work in this mode.
 
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