Scott McCloud's Zot!, one of the best independent comics of the 1980s, has been sold to HarperCollins as a 576-page graphic novel, which will include several issues from the original comic book that have never been reprinted in trade paperback. The book's publication in the summer of 2008 will coincide with the San Diego Comic-Con. This is pretty much the awesomest book-related news I've heard all week.

If you'd like to get a sampling, McCloud created a Zot! webcomic in 2000 called Hearts and Minds that explains all the backstory as it goes along.