NYCC08: VIZ Goes OEL, Questions Thread!
While I was waiting around for Bandai Entertainment’s big news, MangaBlog’s Brigid was chatting up VIZ folks– and learned that VIZ is going to be taking submissions for original graphic novels.
So, on today’s schedule: VIZ is having their regular panel at 11, Del Rey at 12, and Yen Press (I’ve been teased that there’ll be some more big news there) at 1. 3pm will be Digital Manga Publishing’s panel, which will feature lots of Speed Racer and some 801 Media as well. Then at 6pm Dark Horse is having a panel that I’m told is mostly comics news, but that there IS a significant manga announcement there as well. (I checked because Dark Horse is at the same time as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’s showing…)
And after Dark Horse comes CMX.
So, to sum up: if you have questions for VIZ, Del Rey, Yen, DMP, Dark Horse, and/or CMX, go ahead and leave ‘em here and I’ll see what I can do about getting them answered. (I’m also going to go back to Bandai if I can to get some of those questions answered.)
See if Viz has any comment on the licensing of the title ‘Oishinbo’, and if so, how the hell they plan to market a 100+-volume manga about restaurant reviewing. :) (The title has been seen on Amazon as coming out 1/09…)
I’m curious about if Dark Horse has any new CLAMP information (mangaettes, Clover, etc.) to divulge. If you could check, that’d be great!
Looking forward to hearing from the Yen Press panel; they’ve seemed pretty excited about their NYCC announcements for a while now.
[...] Someone just asked about whether they’d be accepting any original series, and they answered that they weren’t really looking for anything, which is a little counter to what Brigid and other bloggers heard yesterday. [...]
Thanks!
@sean: Yayoubetcha. :)
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