Manga watch: Iris Print, Kodansha, etc.
§ 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,...
PiQ Magazine bites the dust
PiQ magazine, the successor to NewType, has bitten the dust with its 4th issue:
The current issue of PiQ (Issue 4, July 2008) will be our last.It’s unfortunate that we’ll never get a chance to...
Mystery of the day
We're not exactly sure what this is, but during World War II it would have been treason.
Rumours updates: Kodansha, Tpop, Wizard, etc etc.
§ 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...
Lolita and Maid Fashion Day at Kinokuniya this weekend
Just in case you happen to be in NYC this weekend and MoCCA doesn't cut it for ya, there's also a big all day event taking place at the Kinokuniya Bookstore: a day of...
Trouble Ahead #2: DramaQueen
DramaQueen is one of a number of small manga publishers that has sprung up in the past few years, specializing in boy's love and other female-targeted manga. They've been around since 2005, but haven't...
Trouble Ahead #1: Toykopop
Oh 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...
Tokyopop: the other side
Well, 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...
Tokyopop: Hey, dude, totally bad contract!
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"...
Manga sales decline in Japan
Also via Simon Jones, ComicsSnob looks at an overview of 2007 manga sales in Japan:
Bullet Points:
# Japanese manga sales slip another 2.3% in 2007, but# the medium is gaining currency as a tool of...
SPEED RACER: And when the odds are against him…
Wow. I can't believe the hating being laid on Speed Racer.
I saw it this weekend, and loved it. Loved every minute of it. It was creative, imaginative, innovative. It was made with care...
Stop, Speed Racer, Stop
It's no secret that The Wachowski's SPEED RACER is primed to be the summer's first big FLOP. Nikki Finke explains:
The real problems plaguing this pic occurred not in the marketing but in the production....
