More on Tpop: WEHT Chuck Austen?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Well, speak of the devil. Benjamin Ong Pang Kean catches up with Chuck Austen and his erotic baseball manga BOYS OF SUMMER. Turns out after the first volume was pulled from retailers for the racy cover and interiors by hentai artist Hiroki Otsuka, all three volumes were completed, but two [...]
Continue ReadingMystery solved: why would anyone sign that Tokyopop Manga Pilot Program contract?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBenjamin Ong Pang Kean continues his look at the Tokyopop fallout with a look at the Manga Pilot program that created such a ruckus: NRAMA: Okay, guys. There’ve been much debates about the contract, or rather, “the pact”. We’re not going to go into legal terms and what-not here but what’re your [...]
Continue ReadingPlatinum and Tokyopop drama continues
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOh boy, will the drama never end. Dylan Squires, founder of Drunk Duck — the webportal purchased by Platinum Studios, and a source of some of its thousands and thousands of potential movie franchises — has left Platinum: I just want to let you all know that a short while ago I [...]
Continue ReadingManga watch: Iris Print, Kodansha, etc.
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Brigid links to the latest on yaoi publisher Iris Print, which, like several little boutique BL publishers, is not doing so hot, and has actually shut down: 1) Iris Print is shutting down. Unfortunately, the heartwarming support Iris’s readers have shown was too little too late. There was a large enough [...]
Continue ReadingYet MORE Tokyopop stuff
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFollowing Friday’s announcement by Rivkah that much of Tokyopop’s OEL output would be moving to the web, some dissenting voices were heard. Christy Lijewski posted that her re:PLAY #3 will see print: Contrary to what all the manga and anime news sites are reporting not EVERY OEL from TokyoPop is canceled/direct to [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop updates
Share this link on Facebook!TweetRivkah talks to her editors: Just got off the phone with my editor, and it looks like not-so-good news for Steady Beat. In fact, it looks like not-so-good news for anybody who’s working with TP right now. I’m not sure how much I should say for fear of causing an outright panic [...]
Continue ReadingRumours updates: Kodansha, Tpop, Wizard, etc etc.
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Japanator weighs in on the Kodansha mystery with a pretty unequivocable Rumor squashed: Kodansha not making a move into the US market, based on a conversation with Ali Kokmen of Del Rey Manga. After a bit of a laugh at it, Ali told me that it was totally false. He was [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop letter to creators
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPublisher Mike Kiley sent out this letter to Tokyopop creators yesterday: Hey, everybody (all TOKYOPOP Manga Creators) – As many of you have no doubt heard by now, we have announced some changes at TOKYOPOP this week. We understand that this announcement may have created some uncertainty for you and we wanted to reach [...]
Continue ReadingYet more on Tokyopop
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOEL creators are beginning to talk about what’s happening. Rikki Simons: I haven’t heard otherwise, so I am assuming that ShutterBox is not part of the cut. In fact, we signed our schedule for ShutterBox Book Six last month, which requires that we turn in the first 25 pages by July 5th [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop layoff update
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re hearing that editorial cuts at Tokyopop include Rob Tokar, Luis Reyes, Paul Morrissey, Hope Donovan and Tim Beedle. Which means the two editors in charge of the Manga Pilot Program. who were defending it just last week, are now gone. Oops. We’ve also heard that marketing and sales staff have been [...]
Continue ReadingUpdate: Tokyopop
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOkay as you may have heard by now, while we on the road, Tokyopop announced its split into two divisions: a publishing arm and a movie/multi-media line, called Tokyopop Media. They alaso announced the layoffs of 39 people, and a 50% reduction in their publishing line. A bunch of people have [...]
Continue ReadingTrouble Ahead #1: Toykopop
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOh boy are there a lot of rumors swirling around Tokyopop! At BEA everyone had one. We’re not going to repeat any until we’ve had a chance to follow up on some of them, but our email is full of tales of woe and horror from creators — some of them frankly [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop: the other side
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, now that the moral outrage has subsided a bit, other folks are coming out to say that the Tokyopop Pilot Program pact isn’t that bad.Editors Paul Morrissey and Hope Donovan speak in a press release which manages to both be written in standard English and make some vital points that [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop: Hey, dude, totally bad contract!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATE: Check out Johanna’s list of Tokyopop’s greatest mistakes over the past two years: The reviews are in! And Tokyopop’s online contract for the new “Manga Pilot” program has been dubbed everything from “appalling” to “vile” to “the most childish and disingenuous legal document I have ever read.” What is it? Basically, [...]
Continue ReadingTokyopop signs Hee Jung Park
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTokyopop has signed a deal with Hee Jung Park, a top Korean comics artist. The multi book deal calls for US editions of Fever (March), Hotel Africa (April), Martin and John (July) and Too Long (August). The company will premiere each of these series on its web site (www.TOKYOPOP.com) as [...]
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