Marvel and Del Rey pacting?
You think it was spring the way folks are pacting up. A very big manga business deal is being announced today, but you’ll have to read Publishers Weekly daily for the scoop. In the meantime, a close reading of the NYAF programming schedule reveals….this:
Del Rey & Marvel Comics
Join Del Rey Manga and Marvel Comics for a special announcement!
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
Manga Panel Room
Are they announcing a new Hulk-flavored onigiri? What!
12/6/07 at 9:39 am
Probably the first ever science-fiction manga featuring Spiderman versus the Purple Pirate
12/6/07 at 11:04 am
Agggh! “Pacting”! Another noun acting as a verb!
(Runs from the room screaming…….)
12/6/07 at 11:30 am
Oh good. I first mentioned this when the panel descriptions went up, thinking it was just the fact that I was not wired into the NY publishing scene that I didn’t know what was going on.
12/6/07 at 11:56 am
I’m thinking it’s just Marvel trying it’s hand at Manga with someone who knows what they are doing.
12/6/07 at 12:08 pm
2 words:
X-Men Yaoi.
(Get THAT image out of your brain, why don’t you)
12/6/07 at 12:52 pm
Are you kidding? I suspect that there is more Wolverine/Cyclops slash stories out there than Marvel’s entire X-Men output since the 60s…
12/6/07 at 5:17 pm
Maybe we’ll finally see the entire Ryoichi Ikegami Spider-Man manga translated? Or is that a pipe dream?
12/6/07 at 5:58 pm
Actually, wasn’t Civil War just Pokemon for adults?
How much more fun would CW have been if it were drawn that way?
12/7/07 at 4:14 am
[…] Other news to arise from the world of manga publishing: Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid reports that Tor Books and Seven Seas Publishing have entered a partnership to release licensed and original manga. Seven Seas’ Jason DeAngelis will continue to supervise the OEL manga in which his company specialized, while he’ll work with Tor’s sales vice-president (and former Tokyopop sales vice-president) Steve Kleckner to select Japanese-language comics for domestic translation. Meanwhile, Heidi MacDonald notes that Del Rey Manga and Marvel Comics may be up for a bit of collaborating as well. […]
12/7/07 at 7:45 am
This makes total sense, and in a way, it was just a matter of time.
12/7/07 at 8:16 am
So Random Haus is working with both Marvel AND DC. I suspect that Marvel might create a separate line, probably allowing Del Ray to license their properties produced overseas. Possibly similar to the Harlequin/Dark Horse romance manga, but backwards.
If this works, perhaps Marvel might create a teen line. It’s been 20 years since the last universe…
12/8/07 at 1:34 am
where does this leave the Dabels?