Tag: Tokyopop

Discover some of the many media tie-in manga series available from Tokyopop.

Free comics to read during the lockdown, free add-ons to use in D&D, and free coloring books to download!

What happened to graphic novel sales?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4iTz3OBjKI&feature=youtu.be   2019 is coming and so is Free Comic Bok Day! Next year it will fall on May 4, 2019, just in time for everyone to be talking about Avengers Endgame - and what better...

It's really hard for DC and Marvel to break 70K without some kind of stunt. Enter: Kirkman.

There's definitely a flurry of activity over at TokyoPop and they're playing The Mouse Card.  Headlining this are a couple of Nightmare Before Christmas projects, first a manga adaption due out in September by Jun...

A few more notes on things we're seeing from orbit on monitor duty in The Beat's Watchtower: The may have cancelled the Walking Dead panel, but we've got some art for the two TV versions... The...

Free Comic Book Day 2017 Silver Sponsor Comics (W) Gabe Soria (A/CA) Warren Pleece A prequel of sorts to Murder Ballads, Z2 Comics' biggest release of 2017! This book tells the story of Franklin Bonisteel, the...

As I noted a few weeks back, Tokyopop, the company that came in changed comics and then crashed and burned, suspending publication for the most part back in 2011, is coming back as announced on a panel at Anime Expo with plans to begin publishing again in 2016" announced by founder Stu Levy.

This is an old link, but Robort Boyd has posted a slideshow he delivered on Comixploitation! that rounds up some of the more egregious examples of horrible artistic rip-offs in comics over the years,...

Founded in 1997, TokyoPop was one of the most influential publishers of the Aughts, driving the manga boom in the US as the first publisher to print manga in its original right-to-left format, a move that helped cement its authenticity among young readers. Later on their "original English language manga" line developed an entire generation of young creators working in a manga style, including Becky Cloonan and Amy Reeder Hadley. But it all came to an end in 2011 when the company shut down except for the German office. Owner and founder Stuart Levy went on to make a documentary about the Tohoku earthquake, even amidst continuing controversy about the reversion of rights to creators However there have been flickers of life since then, with some new digital publishing, licensing OEL books like King City to Image, and a TokyoPop-branded newsletter that was part of Nerdist's adventures in that area. Since TokyoPop never went bankrupt, it's entirely possible that Levy can bring it back, as promised on the company's about page:

Guten Tag! Germany... it's a bit of a conundrum in Continental comics. Smack dab in the middle of Europe, it gets a lot of comics imported from other countries, mostly from neighboring Belgium and France.  It...