More layoffs at Tokyopop
Eight more staffers, including editor Bryce Coleman, were laid off from Tokyopop this week, as confirmed by marketing director Marco Pavia. The other staff...
Pavia updates Tokyopop
ICV2 catches up with Tokyopop's Associate Publisher, Marco Pavia, who updates their publishing plans. Part One:
Just to be clear (I know there have been...
Manga news roundup; Tpop and Gentosha pact
ComiPress has an exhaustive guide to all the manga-related SD doings. Simon Jones has a guide to the guide. Among the interesting tiddle taddle-bits:...
Morning Manga updates
§ Correction 8/13: These titles were announced as cancelled by a Tokyopop distributor, but ToykoPop has not announced them as cancelled as of yet:
Tokyo...
More on Tpop: WEHT Chuck Austen?
Well, speak of the devil. Benjamin Ong Pang Kean catches up with Chuck Austen and his erotic baseball manga BOYS OF SUMMER. Turns...
Mystery solved: why would anyone sign that Tokyopop Manga Pilot Program contract?
Benjamin Ong Pang Kean continues his look at the Tokyopop fallout with a look at the Manga Pilot program that created such a ruckus:
NRAMA:...
Platinum and Tokyopop drama continues
Oh boy, will the drama never end. Dylan Squires, founder of Drunk Duck -- the webportal purchased by Platinum Studios, and a source of...
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...
Yet MORE Tokyopop stuff
Following 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...
Tokyopop updates
Rivkah 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...
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...
Tokyopop letter to creators
Publisher Mike Kiley sent out this letter to Tokyopop creators yesterday:
Hey, everybody (all TOKYOPOP Manga Creators) –
As many of you have no doubt...
