It’s November and with a new months come a ton of cool news! Let’s get to it:

• Ted Dawson, Three Men In A Tub looks at the exact same Prince Valiant panel from three different reprint editions 1960s Nostalgia Press, 1980s Interpresse/Fantagraphics, and the new 2010 Fantagraphics edition, shot from original engraver’s proofs. Thanks to Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter.
• Hermes Press will be publishing Land of the Giants: The Complete Series in January 2010. The 208-page 7.5” x 10” hardcover will be in full color, with printed laminated cover, and dustjacket with endpapers. It will include the five issues of the comic, with art by Silver Age great Tom Gill, essays about the show, behind-the-scenes photos, blue-prints, models, design artwork, and more, $49.99.
• Calvin Reid, Publishers Weekly, talks with Robert Weil, W.W. Norton, on editing The Book of Genesis Illustrated by Robert Crumb.
• Corey Breen, Senior Pre-Press Artist for DC Comics, talks about his process for Cleaning Up The Absolute Watchmen.
• Press Release: Rick Remender’s post-apocalyptic series Strange Girl, will be collected in its entirety on January 13th, 2010 from Image Comics. It will be a four-volume signed slipcase strictly limited to 1000 editions for $49.99.
• Press Release: IDW and ComicMix will be co-publishing The Original Johnson the graphic novel biography of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. Volume 1 is due out this December and Volume 2 will follow 2010. Both trade paperbacks are expected to be $19.99 and 128 pages each.
• In case you missed it: DC Comics Expands Contents For The Creeper By Steve Ditko HC. The books has been expanded to include a never-before-published story originally slated to appear in Showcase #106. The 25-page story, entitled “Enter Dr. Storme,” is written and illustrated by Ditko, and features an appearance by Ditko’s character The Odd Man. It will be printed in black and white. Now increased to 288-pages, this title is on Final Order Cutoff on November 5 and is scheduled to arrive in stores on February 24 at its original cover price of $39.99 US.
• ICv2.com has a 10 page Preview of The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game Limited Edition HC and an 8 page Preview of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1: The Trial of Sherlock Holmes HC (both are published by Dynamite Entertainment).
• Wizard of Oz Wins 2009 British Book Design and Production Awards. No, not the Eric Shanower/Scottie Young book, but the Graham Rawle one. Who knew?

• In other Books Of The Year news, Publishers Weekly has their Top 10 books for 2009
  • Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW)
  • Driven by Lemons, Josh Cotter (AdHouse)
  • Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna (Bloomsbury)
  • The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
  • Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press)
  • Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)
  • A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q)
  • You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
  • Pluto, Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)

• and so does Amazon.com
  • Stitches: A Memoir, David Small (WW Norton)
  • George Sprott: 1894-1975, Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
  • All-Star Superman, Vol. 2, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC Comics)
  • The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse)
  • Locas II: Maggie, Hope & Ray, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books)
  • The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre (First Second)
  • A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • The Book of Genesis Illustrated, R. Crumb (WW Norton)
  • Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)

• My friends over at the Collected Editions Blog has some news and opinions on some upcoming DC books including: Wednesday Comics HC, Superboy: The Redemption, Gotham Central Book 3: On The Freak Beat, JSA vs. Kobra, The Shield Vol. 1: Kicking Down the Door, and The Atomic Knights
• And this big news of the week is saved for last: Fantagraphics Announces Six New Golden Age Collections: Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics Of The 1950s (June 2010), Setting The Standard: Alex Toth at Standard Comics 1952-54 (Fall 2010), The Road To Plastic Man: The Golden Age Comics of Jack Cole 1937-41 (TBD), Away From Home: EC Artists at Other Companies (TBD), Creeping Death From Neptune: Basil Wolverton’s Sci-Fi and Horror Comics 1938-55 (TBD), and The Comic Book Frankenstein: The Monster According to Dick Briefer (TBD). This is very welcome material in the wake of Gemstone’s EC line falling behind. Fantagraphics is an excellent company to do a massive project like this and the entire line will be headed by comics historian and editor Greg Sadowski (Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941). These will be welcome additions to my bookshelf.