NYCC: Rumors and updates

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

I spent a big chunk of today wandering around talking to people and doing some interviews for Digital Strips. One of the big stories of the day was that Elfquest creator Wendy Pini is doing a webcomic for Go!Comi, and I interviewed Wendy after the panel for Digital Strips.

Another tidbit that came out in a panel yesterday is that manhwa publisher Netcomics is going to be licensing Japanese manga and publishing global manga as well.

I heard on the floor that Yotsuba&! is not dead; the next volume will be coming out … eventually; that despite the demise of Monthly Shonen Jump, Claymore will continue; and that volume 3 of Museum of Terror will be the last.

I ended the night at the CPM panel, where John O’Donnell talked frankly, and quite entertainingly, about the tough year they just had (with retailers Musicland and Tower Records and supplier Biblos filing for bankruptcy) and then persuading the crowd that manhwa really is better than they think. Details tomorrow.

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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5 Responses to NYCC: Rumors and updates

  1. kimonostereo says:
    February 25, 2007 at 4:52 am

    Wow. The next volume will be coming out… eventually.
    I’ll believe it when I see it in my local comic shop. Until then… a big pllllbbbbttth!

    thanks for the update! I wish they’d be more specific. I can’t imagine what the hold up is… kinda makes me wonder how long their contract with Dengeki Comics is for Yotsubato.

  2. Connie says:
    February 25, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    NO! I can’t believe they dropped Museum of Terror! It was literally the best one of those horror manga Dark Horse licensed.

  3. Hung says:
    February 27, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    Yotsuba& is continuing!? I just ordered the Japanese volume 4! I have a feeling that I’ll be able to finish it faster than ADV can though…

  4. John T says:
    March 3, 2007 at 5:15 am

    My fantasy of a complete MoT collection has been stung. The books are SO big and SO beautiful…maybe that’s their undoing.

  5. Briana says:
    March 5, 2007 at 9:45 am

    yaaaaaaa! i love yotsuba& i just read #3 last night, its so funny!
    im glad its continuing.

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