ICv2 announces some new Dark Horse titles, including a global manga title, Red String, which collects the shoujo-inspired webcomic of the same name. Also in the works: Tapenshu, by Hiroki Endo, creator of Eden; a full-color Akira “companion volume” that will include original art not used in the manga; and a Gunsmith Cats omnibus that promises to be a good value for fans of that title.
Journalista takes a look at the slowly growing popularity of shoujo-ai and yuri manga and provides some links from the scanlation group Lillilicious.
Seven Seas has an interview up with company founder Jason DeAngelis. No, they don’t ask any hard-hitting questions, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. How do you relax at night when manga is your job? Jason reads American comics:
There’s something about seeing grown men running around in tights that somehow sets the mind at ease…
And Adam Arnold dropped me note to say that their artist Shiei has completed volume 2 of Aoi House, her fifth volume for Seven Seas (she also draws Amazing Agent Luna). Pretty impressive!
ChunHyang’s weekly roundup once again picks out the diamonds from the dross at the Tokyopop blogs. Be sure to check it out, as she has an unusually good crop of links this week. And she also has some breaking news: Tokyopop will offer free shipping on its online exclusives, which goes a long way toward ameliorating (sorry, I’m doing SAT tutoring this week) the high prices.
Yoshihiro Yonezawa, a Japanese manga critic and co-founder of Comiket, has died at the age of 53.
Lillian DP waxes lyrical over Suikoden III.
Tokyopop has come up with a brilliant idea: give the gift of manga this Christmas!
Star Trek: The Manga gets a five-star review from people who actually know something about Star Trek.
