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Tokyopop and Digital Manga hold hands
Tokyopop has been exploring lots of different venues for its manga (publishing Hetalia on Zinio and comiXology), and now they are signing on with a competitor: Digital Manga will be publishing manga...
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What Are You Reading?
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Our special guest this week is Mark Kardwell, who can be found blogging regularly over at Bad Librarianship Now or rocking out with the Klams. To find out...
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Here he comes! Speed Racer is back
Ever since his U.S. debut as an animated cartoon in the 1960s, Speed Racer has been zooming in and out of our consciousness. Like so many cool things, the cartoon started out in Japan as a manga, Mach...
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IDW goes online at eManga.com
Digital Manga has been aggressive about expanding its business in several different directions, but I didn’t see this one coming: This week, their eManga website is carrying a number of IDW titles,...
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Digital brings Harlequin manga to the Nook
I used to wonder why Digital Manga only published print books, but over the past few years the company has made all sorts of inroads into the digital realm. The latest: bringing Harlequin manga to the...
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Kickstart my Tezuka?
Digital Manga is a small manga publisher that has explored a number of unconventional ways of doing business, including the Digital Manga Guild, an attempt at legal fan translation. Last week, they...
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Digital returns to Kickstarter with new Tezuka title
On the heels of its last Kickstarter campaign, which will fund a reprint of Osamu Tezuka’s Swallowing the Earth, Digital Manga inaugurated a new Kickstarter drive last week, this one dedicated to...
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Food or Comics? | Empowered or empanadas
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money...
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Previews: What Looks Good for August
It’s time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. Wait a minute … “monthly”? It’s true that we haven’t taken a What Looks Good tour in a few months, but the...
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Digital Manga now on comiXology
You know, I remember a time when Digital Manga published only print manga. That was back in 2005, before digital comics were a thing — Tokyopop ran a couple of sample chapters on its site, and there...
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Comics A.M. | Angoulême International Comics Festival kicks off
Festivals | The Angoulême International Comics Festival has opened in Angoulême, France, and that’s where all the cool kids are. Bart Beaty surveys the scene for the rest of us; the president of this...
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Comics A.M. | Palestinian cartoonist released from Israeli prison
Legal | Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Saba’aneh was released from an Israeli prison on Monday, as scheduled. Saba’aneh, who was originally held without charges and eventually sentenced to five...
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Comics A.M. | Second-best month for comics sales this century
Publishing | John Jackson Miller dissects the latest sales numbers and finds July 2013 to be the second-best month for comics sales in the direct market so far this century—actually, since 1997....
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Crunchyroll to publish digital manga
Beginning Wednesday, the streaming anime website Crunchyroll will offer digital manga from Japan’s biggest publisher, Kodansha — some of them on the same day they’re released in Japan. The service...
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Comics A.M. | Stan Lee Media, Spider-Man &‘litigation finance’
Legal | Those wondering how Stan Lee Media can possibly afford its long, and so far entirely unsuccessful, legal battle with Marvel and Disney may want to read this brief Wall Street Journal article...
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Comics A.M. | C2E2 sees growth in attendance, floor space
Conventions | Lance Fensterman, ReedPOP’s global senior vice president, talks about his company’s strategy of focusing on a few big shows, rather than a lot of smaller ones, and gives the numbers for...
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Comics A.M. | Alexis Deacon wins Observer/Cape/Comica prize
Awards | Alexis Deacon has won the 2014 Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize for “The River,” “a luscious, tangled, whispering kind of story” that earned him £1,000 (about $1,611 U.S.). The...
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Comics A.M. | DMP gives Tezuka Kickstarter another try
Crowdfunding | Digital Manga Publishing’s recent Kickstarter campaign raised some questions as to the proper role of crowdfunding in publishing. When DMP acquired the rights to all of Osamu Tezuka’s...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Jailed Iranian artist’s lawyer arrested for shaking her hand
The arrest of attorney Mohammed Moghini complicates the case of his client, Iranian artist Atena Farghadani, who has only a limited time to appeal her 12-year prison sentence.
View ArticleComics A.M. |‘Naruto’ creator’s next project will be a sci-fi manga
Following the end of "Naruto," creator Masashi Kishimoto isn't ready to dive back into the weekly grind, but he's already settled on his next series.
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