PR: Go!Comi to publish global manga?

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The press release below the cut is really telling you that Go!Comi will be doing portfolio reviews at NYCC. But check this out:

Does this mean Go! Comi is planning to start publishing original material? Creative Director Audry Taylor answered this important question with a cryptic smile. “Come to our panel Saturday at 2:00 PM and you’ll find out.”

But unless they get a kick out of disappointing people, it’s hard to imagine why they would do portfolio reviews otherwise. The whole press release is pretty cryptic, actually.

GO! COMI ANNOUNCES PORTFOLIO REVIEWS AT NYCC

Manga publisher Go! Comi has announced that it will be hosting portfolio reviews for the first time ever at their booth during New York Comic Con. The reviews will be held at booth 564 on Saturday February 24th between 10:00 AM and noon. If you are talented, ambitious, and have a portfolio, the editors at Go! Comi wants to see your work.

Does this mean Go! Comi is planning to start publishing original material? Creative Director Audry Taylor answered this important question with a cryptic smile. “Come to our panel Saturday at 2:00 PM and you’ll find out.”

“We’re going to have a lot of fun at this con,” she confided. “There’s an artist I can’t talk about. There are free posters I can’t give you a sneak peek of. There are announcements I can’t discuss. There’s promotional art in the works that we can’t show you. There’s a website that isn’t online and banner ads that aren’t running yet. We’re working hard here at Go! Comi not to tell anyone anything.”

ABOUT GO! COMI: Upon the release of its first books in late 2005 Go! Comi immediately gained a reputation for the excellence of its series, its top-notch production values, and its incredibly paranoid upper management. Among the manga series Go! Comi has reluctantly released to the public are Cantarella, After School Nightmare, and the best-selling Her Majesty’s Dog.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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3 Responses to PR: Go!Comi to publish global manga?

  2. mike. says:
    January 26, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    A little bit OT, but the website for New York Comic Con sucks, and to my eyes has not been updated in months. Is there another site that people are going to to look at schedules for screenings and panels and such?

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