According to this week’s edition of Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, Pantheon Books will be very busy a year from now as they will be publishing a new edition (finally) of Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns and a new book from David Mazzucchelli:
Frank said the new edition [of Breakdowns] will consist of 24 new pages (including some sections published in the New Yorker as well as the Virginia Quarterly Review) including an eight-page prose essay by Spiegelman surveying his work and early life during the heyday of the underground comix movement. “It’s an autobiographic look at how he became a comics artist and the forces that shaped him,” said Frank.
But the new book by David Mazzucchelli may even be more eagerly anticipated than Spiegelman’s new work. Pantheon is publishing Asterios Polyp, Mazzucchelli’s long awaited graphic novel. A highly regarded comics professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Mazzucchelli is the author of such critically acclaimed works as the comics adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel City of Glass and worked with Frank Miller on the critically acclaimed superhero graphic novel Batman: Year One. Mazzucchelli has been working on the book for more than 10 years, and he has generally declined to say much of anything about it.
The story also says Pantheon will be publishing a collection of Batman-related manga and a collection of work by David Heatley, which likely means I’ll have the chance to re-read that story about his dad for the 500 millionth time.
Also in this week’s newsletter: Brian Wood talks about Northlanders; Steve Niles talks about his upcoming Gotham series for DC; Mark Evanier talks about his new Jack Kirby biography; there’s a profile of IDW’s new Kazuo Umezu book Reptilia; and a look at a new online manga service.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am
New David Mazzucchelli? HOORAY!
November 14th, 2007 at 11:48 am
“a collection of Batman-related manga”
I sort of quite liked the Kia Asamiya book. I could go for more Batmanga.
Seven years on, though, and I’m still wishing I’d bought that Spider-Manga digest…
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November 14th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Craigy: I, too, liked Asamiya’s Bat-book. It was a fun little story.