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...best-seller in North America, debuted in the early 1990s with manga in the Japanese magazine Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams) to become one of the industry's top shojo authors, creating manga for women that now sell in bookstores across the globe through publishers such as Tokyopop. In the creator's first U.S. interview, TIME's Coco Masters talks with Takaya (a pen name) about her experiences as a manga creator, the television series CSI and what makes manga far more than inking characters on a page...
...women for women of all ages. "Every major publishing house has either got their whole foot or their big toe in this pool right now," says Calvin Reid, a co-editor of the trade magazine PW Comics Week. It makes sense, considering the $5 billion global manga market. Tokyopop, the largest U.S.-owned creator and licensor of manga, with $40 million in sales last year, signed a co-publishing deal with HarperCollins. The 11-to-21-year-old market is huge, says CEO Jane Friedman, who predicts steady growth for the category. The Princess Diaries' Meg Cabot will publish Avalon...
Seyeong O's Buja's Diary may be even more shocking to U.S. readers given the dearth of comix from South Korea. Called "manwha" in their native country, the few examples published in the U.S. by the likes of Tokyopop are indistinguishable from their Japanese counterparts in their adolescent focus. Buja's Diary, which, like The Push Man, is also a collection of short, naturalistic stories (originally published between 1988 and 1993) may be the first U.S.-published manhwa that feels truly Korean both in setting and unique cultural concerns. Though O shares with Tatsumi an interest in telling tales...
...TOKYOPOP WARCRAFT: THE SUNWELL TRILOGY Written by Richard Knaack Set in the same rich universe as Blizzard's Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game World of Warcraft, Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy is a fresh take on the Warcraft universe using original characters and storylines...
...starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented imprint sometime in the near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen-ai books - the gay-themed soapers that traditionally appeal to girls. Pantheon will be publishing Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22, the "Leopold and Loeb...