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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…
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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…
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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 The goal is pretty lofty – to print a chunk of Tezuka’s currently unpublished work in 31 paperback books before the end of 2015.…
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Review: Pink, by Kyoko Okazaki In the summer and fall of 2013, Vertical Inc. published a selection of work by prominent women mangaka whose work defined a generation of further work. One of those artists was Kyoko Okazaki, whose minimalist design work and love of controversial subjects paved the way for mangaka like Asumiko Nakamura…
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Taiyo Matsumoto has a penchant for writing stories about children. He examines the world through a child’s eyes, a child’s hopes and dreams, and most importantly a child’s questions. Questions are how Matsumoto starts his latest English release, Sunny, published under Viz’s Sig IKKI line. Not with panoramas or images of far-fetched monsters like his…
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Review: TERRA FORMARS by Yu Sasuga and Keni-ichi Tachibana It’s been a while since I read an honest-to-goodness seinen manga. This weekend was a quick comics refresher – I was at a conference all week, and when I wasn’t learning, going to meetings, or eating at Waffle House, I was reading comics. On the stack…
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Quick Picks #1: New Shojo #1s
Quick Picks is a new, occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of books I’ve been thinking about over the last two weeks. Say I Love You #1 by Kanae Hazuki After a hurtful betrayal as a small child, main character Mei withdraws from her…
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Review: Seraph of the End, Volume 1 Manga publishing has a lot more editorial oversight than most American comics. Nowhere is that more apparent than the first chapters of a new manga. These chapters can be written, rewritten, stretched, pulled, and pinched until they meet an editor’s approval. And when you’re proposing a brand new…
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Manga Worth Reading #2: Gangsta.
This week I’m featuring another seinen title – this time a little more traditional than A Bride’s Story. Gangsta. (Japanese: ギャングスタ) is a comic that follows two “handymen,” Worick and Nic, two guys who are willing to do any job for a price. The first volume opens to finds the two of them closing down a…
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Manga Worth Reading: A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori
Manga is a tricky type of comic. There’s a higher barrier to entry due to the flipped pages, cultural cues that may not be easily understood or explained, and there’s a lot of chaff available on the market. It’s hard to know where to start. With this in mind, Sequential State will be putting out…
