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, we spoke to award-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou about the newly collected “Quantum and Woody” series, and much more.
– Marvel announced two more ‘King in Black’ tie-ins, “King in Black: Black Panther,” and “King in Black: Captain America.” The first title will be written by Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest showrunner Geoffrey Thorne with art by Germán Peralta, while the second will be penned by Danny Lore with art by Mirko Colak. Both issues will be released in February.
– Via Newsarama, writer Ely Moskowitz and artist Mirko Mladic have launched “The Lattice Society,” a dystopian sci-fi comic set in a future where all speech — ie. the very act of speaking — has been banned by the US government. The wordless comic, which will have a limited print run, is available digitally here, and has also been released as a motion comic with sound and music by Moskowitz, and animation by Nacho Del Cerro and Lourdes Gonzalo.
– Per ICv2, the charity ComicBooks for Kids! — which offers free comics to children in hospitals and cancer centers across the US — are expanding with ComicBooks for Troops, which will donate free reading material for those in the military. The initiative, which will help the organization give away more adult-aimed comics they have received, has already donated 7000 comics to all branches of the military in the past 90 days. The report also states ComicBooks for Kids! have partnered with Funko to give away their toys, and mulling how to expand to the UK.
– ICv2 also reported Vault Comics are making all of their single-issue comics (except incentive covers and second printings) fully returnable through Diamond Comic Distributors. Vault’s publisher, Damian Wassel, said, “We all want folks to read the whole series, not just the first issue,” but that “require[s] retailers to stock up way above customer orders so they can keep copies of a bunch of issues on their shelves.” The initiative will extend into 2021.
Finally, NBM Publishing revealed some of their latest graphic novels, coming Spring and Summer 2021:
– “Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science” by Christelle Pecout and Marie Moinard (out March 2021). The book will depict the lives of female scientists like Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Mae Jamison, Hedy Lamarr, and Rosalind Franklin.
– “The Stringer” by Ted Rall and Pablo Calllejo (out April 2021), which is about a veteran war reporter who becomes tempted by the notion of becoming a popular social media influencer, even if it may mean abandoning everything he cares about.
– “The Secrets of Chocolate” by Franckie Alarcon (June 2021), in which Alarcon chronicles the year he spent as assistant to famed Parisian chocolatier Jacques Genin.
– “Love Me Please: The Story of Janis Joplin” by Nicolas Filet, Christopher (“Les Filles”) and Degreef. Due out in July, this biography of the rock singer details her battle with drug addiction, which culminated in her death in 1970, aged just 27.
– “Canciones of Federico Garcia Lorca” by Tobias Tak (August 2021), which adapts 20 poems from the Spanish playwright‘s 1927 collection. The book will include an introduction by Lorca scholar, editor, and translator Christopher Maurer.
