Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: Digital Manga Publishing

  • Review: Unico, by Osamu Tezuka

    Review: Unico, by Osamu Tezuka

    Unico was one of the first books published through Digital Manga Publishing’s Tezuka Kickstarter program, and with its recent reprint from DMP in their Storm Fairy Kickstarter, I thought it would be reasonable to revisit a review of Unico I wrote in 2013.  The book, as a print object, is one of DMP’s best to date; I’ve complained about…

  • DMP’s Kickstarter Issues, Part 3: Righting the Ship

    Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In part 1 of this 3 part series, I talked about DMP’s Tezuka publishing Kickstarter which aims to put out 31 books for just over $500,000.  In part 2 of 3, we discussed Osamu Tezuka, the god of manga, as a mythical Golden Goose. His manga is desired by English speaking…

  • DMP’s Kickstarter Issues, Part 2: Golden Eggs

    Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In part 1 of this 3 part series, I discussed prices of manga in some of Digital Manga Publishing’s Kickstarter projects. Their latest project to bring 31 volumes of Osamu Tezuka manga to print in English for the first time is looking for well over half…

  • DMP’s Kickstarter Issues, Part 1: Costs?

    Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 I’ve had some interesting conversations over the past two days in the wake of Digital Manga Publishing’s release and subsequent PR blast surrounding their latest Kickstarter project. The goal is pretty lofty – to print a chunk of Tezuka’s currently unpublished work in 31 paperback books before the end of 2015.…