Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked



By Tom Spurgeon

Publishing news from hither and yon, as I learn how to do a better job of reporting it:

* the cartoonist Scott McCloud will publish two books through First Second. The first fiction, the second non-fiction. Unlike most authors, in a commercial sense it's the non-fiction work that has the better chance to appeal. I'm a little weirded out by the emphasis on McCloud joining up with First Second instead of their just publishing work by him, like he's grabbing his guitar and joining them on tour. Is that some sort of odd book publishing branding I don't pay attention to when it's not a comics person?

* the cartoonist and artist Tom Neely has announced his next project:

It's called "The Wolf." This book is going to be a collaboration between my comics and the music of Aaron Turner (of ISIS and many other good bands). Aaron is going to compose and record a sort of soundtrack for the book.

That sounds interesting, although I wouldn't know Aaron from Nat. That's a piece of art from the project above.

* IDW is relaunching Dick Tracy in their more attractive, over-sized dailies format.

* you may not believe me when I say so, but I'm looking forward to Tom McLean's Mutant Cinema. I think there's an interesting story to be told about Marvel's first several forays into film. There's also a lot of really non-interesting stories to be had on that subject, too, so there's a want-to-see aspect to it for me.

* did I ever link to this great post about AdHouse's plans for 2009 -- or at least part of that year? I probably didn't... it looks like a good year to me. Books by Ronnie del Carmen, Mike Dawson, Lamar Abrams; books in the works by Fred Chao, James Jean, Vito Delsante/Rachel Freire and Josh Cotter.

* this is something I hadn't known before: the Saga Of The Swamp Thing comics have apparently never appeared in hardcover form.

* Brad Guigar is ending Phables.

* the Daily Cartoonist site is opening itself up for people other than Alan Gardner to post stories.

* I don't know if this is an economy thing or not, but DC is adding 100 pages to its Absolute V For Vendetta project and keeping the same price point. I assume it's sketchbook and support material, not V For Vendetta Babies or anything like that.

* the cartoonist Norm Feuti's on-line effort Gill has found a new home.

* finally, in fold up the keyboard and call it a day news, I had no idea Dark Horse was doing a four-volume series of Jesse Marsh Tarzan stories, and I'm too chicken to track down if I knew this and forgot or if the whole thing somehow completely escaped my attention. Despite whatever forgetting it may say about encroaching senility, the reaction to the news itself is a guarded "Hooray!" That's the first cover right below.


 
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