Licensing headaches enumerated

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

How difficult is licensing Japanese material? Kokoro Media counts the ways.

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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2 Responses to Licensing headaches enumerated

  1. Matt Thorn says:
    March 24, 2007 at 10:09 am

    Add to all that the fact that just about everything from the Big Three manga publishers (Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kodansha) are tied up exclusively by Viz and Del Rey, and that leaves mighty slim pickings for everyone else. (I assume Viz also controls everything from Hakusensha, another sister company to Shogakukan and Shueisha.) And then there are the unpredictable whims of the artists themselves, who have much more say than do artists in the U.S. (Something like the ugly Alan Moore/V for Vendetta divorce could never happen in Japan, because the artist would usually have veto power throughout the process.)

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