Posts tagged with "feature"
Blade of the Immortal - Manga Month
March 22, 2013
It’s rare to receive praise from our licensors. Ultimately, we’re a licensee that makes a contract for something that people love here, but generally, the breadth of distribution and the amount of sales in the US aren’t comparable to those in Japan. The processes involved are fairly routine—we have contract templates with most of the publishers we work with—and all too often, it seems as if it’s a very “assembly line” process, in terms of acquiring the rights, creating the book, sending approvals, selling the book, and sending the royalty check. Read More...
Hyrule Historia: An Answer to the Call for Zelda Canon - Guest Blog by Ingrid Wolf
Jan. 29, 2013
Historia includes the complete history and making of the series, including concept art never before released. Zelda fans will enjoy reading about the familiar faces and places they love, as well as the unfamiliar ones they’ve never known. Yet perhaps the most anticipated feature of Historia is the timeline section, which reveals the official chronology of the series—a topic under much heated debate. What truths will be revealed, what arguments put to rest? Whatever happens, Historia is bound to inspire lengthy, enthusiastic discussion among Zelda fans, not to mention new material. Read More...
Back to the Beginning of a Legend - by Patrick Thorpe
Jan. 24, 2013
On January 29, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia will be released, but it was almost one year ago, February 6, 2012, that Nintendo contacted us to see if we were interested in doing the localization, and it was shortly thereafter that I first held Shogakukan’s Hyrule Historia in my hands and said, “Wow.” I cracked the spine and pored over every single page. I wanted to soak in every character design, every historical detail, every beautiful piece of artwork. Read More...
No Ordinary Amano
Jan. 22, 2013
Deva Zan was no ordinary project for me as an editor. If I were to start from a personal level, I’m of the generation whose first exposure to Japanese pop culture was the anime Speed Racer. You might not associate Yoshitaka Amano’s ethereal style as an illustrator with the manic demon on wheels, but at age fifteen Amano was already working at Tatsunoko, Speed Racer’s studio, during the production of the show. Read More...
The Magical Timeline of Zelda - Guest Blog #1 by Helena Jidborg Alexander
Jan. 22, 2013
You know how people like to tell you they know exactly what they were doing when JFK/Elvis/John Lennon died? Well, in some funny reverse order, I look at Zelda games and can tell you exactly what I was doing when they came out. Read More...
Better Than A Box of Cracker Jacks! An Intro by Michael T. Gilbert
Jan. 17, 2013
Michael T. Gilbert details the vagaries of what you might find in the early days of comic books and how Silver Streak holds a similar place in history. Read Mr. Gilbert's introduction here and in the Silver Streaks Archives Volume 2! Read More...
The Black Beetle: Anatomy of a Font - A Lettering Feature by Nate Piekos
Jan. 8, 2013
A few months ago, word came from editor Jim Gibbons that Francesco Francavilla’s The Black Beetle was going to get its own miniseries, and Jim wanted to bring a letterer on board. I’d seen The Black Beetle in Dark Horse Presents, and started brainstorming before I’d even replied to the e-mail. One of the things I love about working with Dark Horse is that they trust me to come up with a new style guide for the lettering of each new project. It’s one of my favorite tasks. Read More...
Worth Way More Than A Thousand Words
Dec. 13, 2012
The man’s art provides a pretty compelling argument already for why you should be extraordinarily psyched for this book, but if you need an official source to justify your excitement, why not ask the Eisner Awards committee? They awarded him the 2012 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist! Read More...
The Sky by Yoshitaka Amano is Heavy
Oct. 8, 2012
It was a little funny, because otherwise my DH panel presentation was all done with images projected from a laptop—but when it comes to The Sky, nothing beats seeing it in three dimensions just to understand how impressive a package it is. First of all, the box The Sky comes in, with its satin-textured finish, hinged lid, and wraparound illustrations (inside and out) measures 594 cubic inches—it’s the muscle car of DH art book projects! Read More...
Interview with 'The Massive' Creator Brian Wood
June 12, 2012
Brian Wood's The Massive hits shelves tomorrow. We sat down with him for a brief set of questions to add to long list of comics media about the series that has garnered epic launch appeal. Get to your local retailer tomorrow and snag a copy of Issue #1 before it disappears off the shelves. Read More...