Studio coffee run: PRIEST, Wonder Woman
§ The adaptation of PRIEST, the supernatural manhwa by Min-Woo Hyung, is on again, with Paul Bettany now cast as the lead. This movie has been brewing for a while -- at one point...
Uclick offers DRAMACON app for free
Uclick and Tokyopop are releasing Svetlana Chmakova's DRAMACON #1 as a free app on the App store. The book was originally released as a trilogy of manga volumes by Tokyopop. The story of adventure...
Tokyopop titles postponed, NOT canceled
Reports that Tokyopop had canceled a bunch of titles are not true, ICv2 reports. The titles were canceled at Diamond - leading to the reports -- but are merely postponed, according to Toykopop. And...
Tokyopop cancellations
Johanna Draper Carlson notes that you can't buy Kozue Amano's ARIA #4 any more, even though it just came out in December.
Aria Book 4 came out at the beginning of December. I had...
More layoffs at Tokyopop
Eight more staffers, including editor Bryce Coleman, were laid off from Tokyopop this week, as confirmed by marketing director Marco Pavia. The other staff cuts were from around the company. The move came in...
Pavia updates Tokyopop
ICV2 catches up with Tokyopop's Associate Publisher, Marco Pavia, who updates their publishing plans. Part One:
Just to be clear (I know there have been a lot of Internet rumors), we have not cancelled any...
Manga news roundup; Tpop and Gentosha pact
ComiPress has an exhaustive guide to all the manga-related SD doings. Simon Jones has a guide to the guide. Among the interesting tiddle taddle-bits: Although absent from the show, Tokyopop announced a deal with...
Morning Manga updates
§ Correction 8/13: These titles were announced as cancelled by a Tokyopop distributor, but ToykoPop has not announced them as cancelled as of yet:
Tokyo Pop has announced it is cancelling thew following titles, all...
More on Tpop: WEHT Chuck Austen?
Well, speak of the devil. Benjamin Ong Pang Kean catches up with Chuck Austen and his erotic baseball manga BOYS OF SUMMER. Turns out after the first volume was pulled from retailers for...
Mystery solved: why would anyone sign that Tokyopop Manga Pilot Program contract?
Benjamin Ong Pang Kean continues his look at the Tokyopop fallout with a look at the Manga Pilot program that created such a ruckus:
NRAMA: Okay, guys. There've been much debates about the contract, or...
Platinum and Tokyopop drama continues
Oh boy, will the drama never end. Dylan Squires, founder of Drunk Duck -- the webportal purchased by Platinum Studios, and a source of some of its thousands and thousands of potential movie franchises...
Manga watch: Iris Print, Kodansha, etc.
§ Brigid links to the latest on yaoi publisher Iris Print, which, like several little boutique BL publishers, is not doing so hot, and has actually shut down:
1) Iris Print is shutting down. Unfortunately,...
