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DC Goes Manga in October...

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From my email inbox today:

 

 

DC COMICS DIRECT CHANNEL SPECIAL

 

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June 23, 2004

 

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DC COMICS LAUNCHES CMX, A NEW MANGA IMPRINT IN OCTOBER

 

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Forthcoming titles include the international bestsellers Kamikaze Kaitou

Jeanne and Tenjo Tenge, as well as titles by Tajima Sho-u (who created the

character designs for the anime sequences in the film Kill Bill: Volume 1)

and Fujii Mihona's Gals! (the basis for the popular anime series

SuperGals!)

 

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Paul Levitz, President & Publisher of DC Comics announced today that DC

Comics will launch CMX, a new imprint of manga graphic novels, with the

publication of three titles in October, 2004. The first three to be

released are the initial volumes of MADARA (art by Tajima Sho-u and

written by Otsuka Eiji from Kadokawa), MEKAKUSHI NO KUNI (illustrated and

written by Tsukuba Sakura from Hakusensha), and EROIKA YORI AI WO KOMETE

(illustrated and written by Aoike Yasuko, from Akita Shoten.)

 

"There's tremendous enthusiasm for manga in the States," said Levitz.

"New readers, particularly girls and women, have rushed to embrace new

talent from abroad, which we're excited to bring to American audiences as

part of DC Comics' commitment to publishing diverse and exciting works

from around the world."

 

Each of the CMX titles are Japanese manga which are being released for the

first time in the United States, and will be published in the traditional

manga format - sized at 5 X 7 3/8", with black and white interiors.

Subsequent volumes of each series will be released on a quarterly

schedule.

 

Upcoming titles include Fujii Mihona's Gals (Gals has been adapted as the

popular anime series SuperGals!) from Shueisha, Tenjo Tenge (by Oh! Great,

from Shueisha), 9 Banme no Musashi (by Takahashi Miyuki, from Akita

Shoten), Swan (by Ariyoshi Kyoko from Akita Shoten), Monster Collection

(by Sei Ito from Kadokawa Shoten), Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne by Tanemura

Arina (from Shueisha), and Akuma de Soro (by Takanashi Mitsuba from

Shueisha).

 

"We believe that manga readership is going to continue its rapid growth

and also evolve in the U.S.," said John Nee, Vice President - Business

Development at DC Comics. "CMX is committed to publishing all genre of

manga, including horror, fantasy, science fiction and adventure titles,

and the line will be as diverse, and as author-friendly, as that of DC

Comics, VERTIGO, and WildStorm."

 

Nee also announced today that DC Comics has hired Jake Tarbox as the Group

Editor of the CMX imprint. Tarbox has spent the last 14 years living in

Tokyo, Japan where he worked at Coamix, Inc. as the International Affairs

Manager and Vice-Editor-Chief of Raijin Comics, administered the creation

of the American subsidiary company Gutsoon! Entertainment, and edited the

manga magazine, Raijin Comics. Tarbox will handle the editorial

responsibilities for the CMX imprint including overseeing the translation

and printing of manga titles into English.

 

ABOUT THE LEAD TITLES AND TALENT:

 

MADARA Volume 1 (originally serialized in Marukatsu Famicom magazine)

represents the first work done together by the creators of the hit series

MPD Psycho, artist Tajima Sho-u (who created the character designs for the

anime sequences in the movie Kill Bill: Volume 1) and writer Otsuka Eiji.

When his village is attacked by demons, Madara, a blacksmith's apprentice,

discovers that he possesses fantastic powers.

 

Artist Tajima Sho-u debuted as a manga artist in 1987 with the publication

of Madara. He has worked on illustration and character design for

computer games (including Galerians) and animation. He has illustrated

MPD Psycho, Brothers Baby Baby, Madara Colors, and his current hit series

Gorilla Kick.

 

In addition to his work with manga, writer Otsuka Eiji is a critic,

essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese

popular and "otaku" sub-cultures. In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief

of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered

research on the "otaku" sub-culture in modern Japan.

 

Mekakushi no Kuni Volume 1 was originally serialized in LaLa DX magazine

from 1998 to 2004. In this nine volume series, creator Tsukuba Sakura

tells the story of Otsuka Kanade, a high school girl who can see visions

of the future. Should she act to change their fate, or sit back and wait

for events to unfold?

 

A rising young author in the shojo manga world, Tsukuba Sakura decided to

become a manga artist in high school. As she was about to graduate

college, she furiously distributed her work to publishers. Her first

published work was A Bright Spring Day, in LaLa magazine. She has also

written and drawn Invisible World: a Dog's Story (published in LaLa

magazine) and Past Day Present (published in LaLa magazine).

 

Eroika yori Ai wo Komete Volume 1 was originally serialized in Princess

magazine from 1977 to the present. Eroika yori Ai wo Komete follows the

adventures of a British aristocrat and international art thief who taunts

his nemesis, Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, by leaving notes behind

at the scene of his crimes, signed "From Eroica with Love."

 

Aoike Yasuko's first manga, Sayonara Nanette, was published in RIBBON

magazine when she was fifteen years old. Afterwards, she garnered

attention by publishing several hit stories in rapid succession, including

Shojo Blend, When Roses Cry, Oh Carol, "I Love You, Tetsu-sensei," and

"Hey, Young Guy." In 1976 her sci-fi comedy Sons of Eve in Princess

magazine, represented a switch from pure shojo stories to a new kind of

storytelling.

 

Debuting in 1977, Eroika yori Ai wo Komete became a huge best seller, and

its sequel series is still being serialized today. The series is built on

a great deal of research about European art history, and has helped to

popularize many European painters in Japan as well as Japanese tours of

European art museums.

 

Aoike Yasuko has continued a long and productive career in the pages of

Princess, a highly popular girl's manga anthology magazine. But her work

is so popular that she is at present concurrently publishing stories in

several magazines. She is the creator of Miriam Blue's Lake, Sons of Eve,

Seven Seas, Seven Skies, The Castle, Ivy Navy, Trafalgar, Z, Der

Freischutz, Alcasar, The Tale of a Priest and a Doctor, The Day of

Saladin, Richard, the Lion-Hearted, Brother Falco, The Temptation of

Scarlet, The Carthaginian Fantasy, The Melancholy of Her Majesty, The

Knight of Drachen, and Plus Ultra.

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(I'd PM this but... confused-smiley-013.gif if you'd get it smirk.gif)

 

... just trying to follow up on the comic order that you mentioned was shipped weeks ago. It never arrived. I got my guide, but around that time you said my comic order would be following the next day or so. No biggie if there was a delay for any reason at all, but I'd like to know if they were sent and lost or not... ya' know?

 

When I see you posting but not answering multiple attempts to reach you, it makes me...

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and even a wee bit

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get it? makepoint.gif

 

 

27_laughing.gifstooges.gif now.. my comics?

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(I'd PM this but... confused-smiley-013.gif if you'd get it smirk.gif)

 

... just trying to follow up on the comic order that you mentioned was shipped weeks ago. It never arrived. I got my guide, but around that time you said my comic order would be following the next day or so. No biggie if there was a delay for any reason at all, but I'd like to know if they were sent and lost or not... ya' know?

 

When I see you posting but not answering multiple attempts to reach you, it makes me...

confused.gif

893frustrated.gif

and even a wee bit

mad.gif

 

get it? makepoint.gif

 

 

27_laughing.gifstooges.gif now.. my comics?

He responds to my PMs for some reason! confused-smiley-013.gif
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(I'd PM this but... confused-smiley-013.gif if you'd get it smirk.gif)

 

... just trying to follow up on the comic order that you mentioned was shipped weeks ago. It never arrived. I got my guide, but around that time you said my comic order would be following the next day or so. No biggie if there was a delay for any reason at all, but I'd like to know if they were sent and lost or not... ya' know?

 

When I see you posting but not answering multiple attempts to reach you, it makes me...

confused.gif

893frustrated.gif

and even a wee bit

mad.gif

 

get it? makepoint.gif

 

 

27_laughing.gifstooges.gif now.. my comics?

He responds to my PMs for some reason! confused-smiley-013.gif

 

It's because you're such a snappy dresser... ------------> sumo.gif

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(I'd PM this but... confused-smiley-013.gif if you'd get it smirk.gif)

 

... just trying to follow up on the comic order that you mentioned was shipped weeks ago. It never arrived. I got my guide, but around that time you said my comic order would be following the next day or so. No biggie if there was a delay for any reason at all, but I'd like to know if they were sent and lost or not... ya' know?

 

When I see you posting but not answering multiple attempts to reach you, it makes me...

confused.gif

893frustrated.gif

and even a wee bit

mad.gif

 

get it? makepoint.gif

 

 

27_laughing.gifstooges.gif now.. my comics?

He responds to my PMs for some reason! confused-smiley-013.gif

 

It's because you're such a snappy dresser... ------------> sumo.gif

Or maybe you like the subject titles of my PMs such as "Dork...Screw you....Fool"! sumo.gif
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DC COMICS LAUNCHES CMX, A NEW MANGA IMPRINT IN OCTOBER

Paul Levitz, President & Publisher of DC Comics announced today that DC

Comics will launch CMX, a new imprint of manga graphic novels, with the

publication of three titles in October, 2004.

 

How ghastly !!!!!!

It makes collecting every DC very unattractive suddenly.

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DC COMICS LAUNCHES CMX, A NEW MANGA IMPRINT IN OCTOBER

Paul Levitz, President & Publisher of DC Comics announced today that DC

Comics will launch CMX, a new imprint of manga graphic novels, with the

publication of three titles in October, 2004.

 

How ghastly !!!!!!

It makes collecting every DC very unattractive suddenly.

 

You don't collect all the graphic novels too, do you?

 

The pamphlet quest is insane enough, I can't imagine trying to locate every collected edition that was put out.

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So Ian... have you thought about offering your entire collection in an eBay auction when you finish it?

 

Run it for ten days, with an insane reserve that no one would ever bid. Even if you ran it as a featured auction, you'd be out less than 30 dollars and would probably get mentioned in every single trade publication. Heck, if the bidding went over $5mil you'd probably make the ticker on CNN and MSNBC. Get you some international press, and some interviews with the talking heads. I'd have to think you'd make your money back just in Northern Soul royalties from people buying CDs to find out who this guy Ian Levine was... The way the American public is, you'd probably be sitting across from Larry King within two weeks...

 

And heck, if the collection sold for $18 million... you can always start putting it back together again... smile.gif

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DC COMICS LAUNCHES CMX, A NEW MANGA IMPRINT IN OCTOBER

 

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I am looking forward to this. I want to see how dc handles the translation and converts it to our format. Left to right vs right to left and all that jazz.

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DC COMICS LAUNCHES CMX, A NEW MANGA IMPRINT IN OCTOBER

 

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I am looking forward to this. I want to see how dc handles the translation and converts it to our format. Left to right vs right to left and all that jazz.

 

If they are smart they will leave the books right to left...

 

The kids buying manga think it's "cooler" to have it the original way...

 

I can sell them 3 times as easily right to left... confused-smiley-013.gif

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The way the American public is, you'd probably be sitting across from Larry King within two weeks...

 

Bill Clinton is on tonight so I guess they'll invite just about anyone on. confused-smiley-013.gif

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