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Fantagraphics Books to launch manga imprint
The Comics Journal #269
Dirk Deppey has announced that Fantagraphics Books has signed a deal with Japanese publisher Shogakukan to launch a manga line translated by scholar and translator Matt Thorn.
The line, which Deppey says has been four years in the making, apparently will launch in September with a collection of stories by legendary artist Moto Hagio, a pioneer of modern shojo manga.
(Thorn interviewed Hagio in 2005 for a Comics Journal cover story, at right.)
Tagged: Fantagraphics, manga
3 Comments
Adam K
March 8, 2010 at 1:44 pm
AWESOME. This has a lot of potential.
Joe H
March 8, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Hopefully it won’t JUST be shojo. I mean that’s great and all for fans of that genre, but I’m ready to sink my teeth into most any other manga.
Chris Jones
March 8, 2010 at 9:30 pm
JUICED
I hope they bring over some really freaky, avant-garde stuff.