Digital Manga Publishing will be co-branding some of its books with the imprint of the original Japanese publisher and has also secured the rights to publish some of the stories online. PWCW has more.
David Welsh looks over this week’s releases, and makes his choices, at Precocious Curmudgeon. Matt Blind posts the full manga list at Comicsnob.
Retoucher Susie Lee gives a step-by-step explanation of retouching sound effects. (Via John Jakala, who particularly enjoys the exchanges in comments.)
Everybody’s doing it—publishing anthologies, that is. The newest publisher to jump in is Boombox Media, which is accepting submissions for its first Shockpop World Manga Digest.
Reviews: Matt Brady checks out the October Shojo Beat at Warren Peace Sings the Blues. At Anime on DVD, Greg Hackmann gets an early look at an upcoming Del Rey title, vol. 1 of Psycho Buster. Dan Polley checks out vol. 6 of VS at Manga Life. At Hobotaku, Nick gives an A to vol. 1 of King City. Scott Campbell reviews vol. 17 of Project Arms—The Fourth Revelation: Meltdown at Active Anime. Julie checks out an upcoming title, Portus, at the Manga Maniac Cafe.
What I find strange is, this slant that somehow DMP brokered this notion and ‘brought in’ the publishers, when I was under the impression, from prior rumblings I’d heard, that some Japanese pubs were thinking of getting together and ‘insisting on some sort of recognition’ for titles they published. I think it’s a smart move on their part, because in Japan ‘imprints’ are important, recently Ookura Shuppan restructured Aqua and created the site Aqua-Boys for ‘all’ of the their man/man theme comics [even the their Macho Type series]. They even have a blog: http://aquaboysblog.blog85.fc2.com/
They’re not blind to the scene over here anymore, and I get the impression they want to be an active part of it.