Tokyopop Manga Magazine MIA?

Got a postcard today from Tokyopop… it said “We know you’re eagerly awaiting your next volume of Manga magazine, so we just wanted to assure you we’re working hard to get you the latest previews and hottest insider information–we definitely haven’t forgotten about you.” It continues with promotion for four fighting titles “filled with bone-crushing art” and an “exclusive 25% discount on … all Tokyopop manga this month.” I hadn’t noticed the magazine seemed to have disappeared until they pointed […]

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CSI: Dying in the Gutters #5

I haven’t seen anyone talk about the comic book convention mystery CSI: Dying in the Gutters, and after they worked so hard to draw direct market attention to it, too. Maybe everyone’s waiting for the trade (due next month)? Here’s the premise: at a Las Vegas comic convention, internet gossip Rich Johnston is killed, electrocuted when he touches a rigged microphone while standing in salt water. So many creators have reason to kill him that the CSI team has trouble […]

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Tokyopop Revising Rating System

Tokyopop Revising Rating System: With “more than 40 content indicators divided among five age ranges”, perhaps a better verb is “complicating”. It’s due to debut this fall. [A] general set of content indicators in addition to the ratings icon will be printed on the cover of each new series. The new system will provide prospective buyers with far more information about a book’s content than the previous system (that Tokyopop pioneered), which simply provided the age rating alone. That’s a […]

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Friends of Lulu Silent on Donation Status

Two weeks ago, I asked Friends of Lulu about the status of their Empowerment Fund, a somewhat notorious project that’s been bedeviled with questions since its start. They weren’t able to provide much concrete information, so I asked two more questions. When do you expect to have the transition completed? Do you expect to release a statement at that time? Until then, what is the status of the funds received? And are you still an official 501c3 organization, because you’re […]

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Earthlight Volume 1

It’s high school teen drama… in space! I’m not sure what to say about Earthlight. I want to like it, but it’s not quite there for me. The artist, Christopher Schons, is great with near-future technology, and he’s also good with creating expressive figures in the kids, so that’s not it. The writer, Stuart Moore, crafts excellent scenes and is good at introducing story events and characters efficiently, even if most of the people are predictable types (but still likable). […]

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Caliber Titles Online

I remember Caliber fondly from when I got back into comics last decade. Now, they’re putting many of their titles online. Press release: Caliber Comics, one of the leading independent publishers of the 1990’s, is making many of their titles available as downloads from drivethrucomics.com. The titles will be available as pdfs which can be used with Acrobat Reader and the majority will sold less than the original cover price. [sic] Caliber, which helped to launch the careers of many […]

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Friends of Lulu Empowerment Fund Response

I was questioning the status of the Friends of Lulu Empowerment Fund, so I sent a query to the Board of Directors of the group. (Actually, I sent an email to the general “info@friends-lulu.org” address listed on their Contact Us page, only to get back a form notice that that address is being “phased out” and to contact board members directly. So I did. I figure their website is overdue for or in the middle of an upgrade, because the […]

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Ross Campbell Quits Tokyopop

I’m not a fan of zombie stories, so I didn’t enjoy Ross Campbell’s The Abandoned as much as I have some of his other works. However, I’m sorry to hear that he had publisher problems (as revealed in the comments at Bill Sherman’s review, link no longer available). i sorta quit Tokyopop after the first book, i had a crummy experience with them (requiring a long rant to explain, heh). but i’m pitching the sequel’s material to another publisher, but […]

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