Just doing some catching up. Here are some linky-links for you – with comments.
- ICv2.com has info on IDW‘s new The Complete Li’l Abner. Dean Mullaney’s Library of American Comics project has been nothing sort of spectacular. This book and series can’t come out fast enough.
- ICv2.com also has a list of 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens (Full List of 73 Titles). Please pass this link along to friends and family you know who would be interested.
- ICv2.com also has the Chip Kidd cover to the Strange Tales HC anthology. It will collect Strange Tales #1-3, The Megalomaniacal Spider-Man and material from All Select Comics 70th Anniversary Special, $29.99, February 24, 2010.
- Boom! Studios to Launch New Imprint with a focus on literary comics and selective reissues of out-of-print works. I’ll be interested to see what they have planned.
- David Welsh, Precocious Curmudgeon, blogs on Deb Aoki revealing the results of her 2009 Manga Readers Polls over at About.Com.
- The Emerald City ComiCon (ECCC) is once again bringing back its popular Monsters & Dames art book for 2010. Only 850 copies will be printed.
- Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, has all the SPACE Prize winners. I’ve been meaning to go to this for years, but this year it fall to close to C2E2 so I’ll have to miss it for another year. Also posted are the Fall/Winter Xeric winners.
- Chris Arrant, Newsarama, on Popgun Volume 4 and it’s creators. This is a fun anthology. If you never picked it up, I think you’ll be surprised. I hope to devot a podcast to this series someday.
- Twilight: The Graphic Novel. Need I say more?
- Blake Bell, via Fatagraphics, Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics. There’s a link to Everett’s Facebook page where you can see and read about the progress of the book. It’s scheduled for September and is not selling for $999.98 as you’ll see on Amazon.com.
