Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked

* a bunch of you have e-mailed a link to this site about a lost Hugo Pratt work (cover above) that I guess was not quite finished. That means someone out there had it first. Thank you, someone. * the well-liked small press title Action Philosophers has a 320-page collection coming out in late November: The More-Than-Complete Action Philosophers (0977832937). It will include four new stories. * friend of CR and longtime Comics Journal mainstay is apparently blogging at Hooded Utilitarian now. * Sean Kleefeld is going to write a book about comic book fandom, and he invites your input. If I can make a suggestion, I would love to see someone handle with alacrity and care the period between the 1970s 'zine makers and letter-writing circles that seemingly all went into comics and the Internet period of the 1990s. I don't have any sense of 1980s hardcore fandom beyond TM Maple and, if I'm remembering correctly, Joshua Quagmire writing strong critiques of other people's mini-comics. * here's a surprise: one of those formal on-line press release things that's enjoyable to read. Well, for a press release, anyway. To be honest, I don't know that I'd heard about Sunday Press Books' edition of The Upside Down World Of Gustave Verbeek (cover below), although I suspect that's something that may have been out there just not on the front page of the comics world's mental newspaper. That's a fun strip, and certainly the all-time comics gimmick. * the cartoonist Jamie Cosley has launched a new web site devoted to his webcomic, This Is How We Met. * the artist and cartoonist Stuart Immonen reacts to a cover image and interiors of a forthcoming Craig Yoe-packaged book on Dan DeCarlo's Jetta comics. * finally, another informative press release, this one in PDF form, about the forthcoming Osamu Tezuka art book from Helen McCarthy.