Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
In case you missed it, artist Marcelo Ferreira signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, and we have an exclusive preview of next month’s new Vault comic “Heist or How to Steal A Planet” #1.
– BOOM! Studios announced “Kudzu: Heart of the Mountain,” a kid’s graphic novel from cartoonist Dustin Bolton (Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law) about a boy living in a post-apocalyptic South. The book, which is Bolton’s first graphic novel, will be released in August 2020.
– Marvel have formed a pact with games group Asmodee Entertainment’s new fiction imprint Aconyte to publish prose stories starring their characters. The first novels will be released as trade paperbacks, ebooks and audiobooks from Simon & Schuster next fall. Publisher Marc Gascoigne said, “You can look out for legends from Asgard, several volumes focusing on some of Marvel’s heroines, and stories of some of Professor Xavier’s lesser-known students, and that’s just to get us started.”
– The third and final issue of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “Batman: Last Knight on Earth” #3 has been delayed five weeks to December 18, having originally been slated for release next month. “‘Batman: Last Knight’ 3 is pushed back 5 weeks bc it’s bigger than we expected at 54 pages and bc we helped on ‘Spawn’ 300 – which was an honor we couldn’t turn down,” Snyder explained on Twitter.
– ShortBox editor Zainab Akhtar announced on Twitter she’s opening up pitches to the subscription-based comics service for the first time. “Cartoonists only (no writer/artist teams),” she said. “Looking for comic books 80-150 pages. Books can be about anything at all, but please make yourself familiar with what we publish. Email: info@shortbox.co.uk”
– Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder has called out third-party political group Canada Strong and Proud for using his cartoon in an online advertisement without his permission. The group has apologized to de Adder by phone, and the cartoonist told CTV News they would speak again this week to finally resolve the issue. “I can’t think of anything worse than a second-party political group using an editorial cartoon without permission in a paid advertisement,” de Adder said. “That’s clearly a huge violation … this is way past the line.”
– Finally, 72-year old Guardian cartoonist Andrzej Krauze reports a portfolio of artwork he did in the early ’90s has gone missing: if you live in central London, you can find out details on how to help Krauze find his lost drawings here.
