By Tom Spurgeon
* I'm not sure if this is a formal announcement, or just the first time I saw it and/or it registered with me: the next two artists featured in Youth In Decline's Frontier solo anthology are Hellen Jo (#2) and Sascha Hommer (#3). Those are great choices.
* I haven't been over to Amazon.com in some time to look at what companies have told that bookseller in terms of what's coming and when. The "when" isn't always accurate with these things, but the "what" is usually pretty solid. It's been a while, so a long list of creators and projects caught my eye: Matt Dembicki, Wilfred Santiago, Noel Tuazon working with Eric Hobbs, MK Brown, Blexbolex, Seymour Chwast, Jim Rugg illustrating Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Roman Muradov, another EC book, another Buz Sawyer, a Ramona Fradon art book, a Johnny Hazard collection, a third big book in my beloved Secret History series, Stan Sakai with a 20th (!) volume and, of all people, Charise Mericle Harper.* speaking of Amazon.com, I can never quite tell what's going on when a book like this one show up listed, but I hope it means someone is doing an edition over here and that is just the placeholder.
* Rich Johnston write that at the Phoenix convention he heard that DC will be doing a Booster Gold comic. I guess that's an okay character... as I recall his thing is that he's a) from the future, b) in it for the cash, so you get time-traveling stories and stories about the heroic impulse or whatever. There are much worse basic set-ups. That's not a character that has a nostalgic pull on me, and only in superhero comics does that make it more difficult to gauge a character's appeal.
* finally, The Beat has a preview up for Michael DeForge's The Boy In Question. That one is from Space Face Books.
