Tokyopop Germany to go their own way

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

German blogger Martin Kretschmer, keeper of the excellent TZG2.0, alerted me that Tokyopop Germany honcho Joachim Kaps has posted on a German message board about the future of Tokyopop titles over there. Here’s the original:

Uns steht für Deutschland völlig frei, welche Projekte wir als Buch herausgeben. Es kann insofern dazu kommen, dass Bände, die in den USA nur online erscheinen, in Deutschland als Buch kommen. So möchten wir zum Beispiel den dritten Band von Steady Beat gerne als Buch machen, wenn das Material vorliegt.

and Martin’s translation:

We in Germany are free to decide which projects we publish. It is therefore possible that books that are released online in the USA will be published as actual books in Germany. For instance, we would love to publish a third STEADY BEAT book once the material is available.

We’ll be keeping an eye on them to see if they keep any of the dropped series.

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 Tokyopop Germany to go their own way

  1. Queenie Chan says:
    June 24, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Hi Brigid,
    I just saw the PWCW interview by you (of me) go up.
    Thanks so much for the interview – it’s really fantastic!!
    I’ll be posting it up on my LJ in a few days, but just wanted to drop by and thankyou first. :D

  2. Brigid says:
    June 24, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Hi Queenie!

    Glad you liked it. I really enjoyed talking to you. I hope our paths cross IRL one of these days!

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