Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News By Tom Spurgeon
* the 100th anniversary of Will Eisner -- it's also the Kirby centennial -- kicks off with a book release. It's interesting to track the developing reputation of both greats.
* your newest X-Men teams, as of next Spring. Nothing strikes me as particularly interesting about any of the creative teams, team rosters or directions. That is a book that could use a radical new direction, and comics is very bad at radical new directions more than once or twice in a property's history.
* finally, in a piece of vital and right-now publishing news, Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman will guest-edit a special issue of the NYC comics paper Smoke Signal to be called RESIST! and will constitute a response to the recent political turmoil caused by election results and country's lurch rightward. Thirty thousand copies are expected to be distributed. The web site is right here.
* the 100th anniversary of Will Eisner -- it's also the Kirby centennial -- 
