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– Fantagraphics has partnered up with Breakdown Press to help distribute their books to a wider audience. The UK publisher offers some of the “most ambitious, progressive, and editorially risk-taking comics” says publisher Gary Groth. The first two books Fantagraphics will release are “The Artist” by Anna Haifisch and “Red Red Rock” by Hayashi Seiichi. These books are already listed in the November Previews catalogue.
– Dark Horse is going all in with the new Matt Kindt/David Rubín series, “Ether,” enough so that they put together a trailer for the book. “Ether” #1 hits comic shelves today.
– Speaking of trailers, here’s a teaser for the live action Fullmetal Alchemist movie, dropping in 2017.
– And here’s another trailer, this one for Justice League Dark, the next R-rated entry in the DC Animated Universe franchise.
– Stacked Desk Press is putting together an all-trans comics anthology titled “We’re Still Here.” Edited by Tara Avery and Jeanne Thornton, the collection already contains work from such peeps as Melanie Gillman, Dylan Edwards, Annie Mok, Morgan Sea, and others. They’re also looking for submissions from other trans cartoonists.
– Magdalene Visaggio, author of such comics as “Kim & Kim”, will be contributing a backup story to “Shade the Changing Girl” starting with issue #4. “Shade” is part of the DC Young Animal initiative and marks Visaggio’s first work for a mainstream corporately-owned superhero company.
– Michael Tisserand has written a biography of George Herriman, the creator of “Krazy Kat.” Titled Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, the book is slated to release in early December 2016 from Harper Publishers. Preparing for the event, he sat down to talk with Paul Tumey about the book, Herriman, and his own ambitions as a journalist.
– Jerry Dumas has died at age 86. A writer, cartoonist, and essayist, Dumas might be best known as the creator of the “Sam and Silo” strip. He also provided illustrations for The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. His writing also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Smithsonian Magazine. On top of that, he earned a New England and Connecticut handball championship trophy. “Cartooning is a great American art form and Jerry was one of the people who shaped it,” says Thomas Mellana, Greenwich Time Managing Editor.
