Posts tagged with "manga"
The Return of Lone Wolf and Cub!
June 7, 2013
Lone Wolf and Cub. Eight. Thousand. Pages. One has difficulty imagining a comics creative team committing to a story of such epic proportions, much less a story with a true beginning, middle, and end. Read More...
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...
Dark Horse in the Headlines - March 13th
March 15, 2013
If you haven't been keeping up with your comics media, here's some key links and reviews for you to check out what we've got going on in the news! Read More...
Celebrating 25 Years of Manga! - by Carl Horn
March 1, 2013
March 2013 is Manga Month here at Dark Horse Comics. We're celebrating 25 years of publishing some of the best and most exciting Manga in the industry. We're proud to partner with Manga greats like Amano, CLAMP, Hiroya Oku, Yasuhiro Nightow, Kohta Hirano and so many more! We've also been publishing english editions of the longest running Manga in publishing, Oh My Goddess. We hope you join us during this month to share your favorites and thoughts on MANGA. Our Manga expert extraordinaire and editor, Carl Horn, details our history and what we're celebrating. Read More...
Oreimo Guest Blog
Oct. 4, 2012
Guest Blogger Ezra Desu shares his thoughts on why Oreimo fits into Dark Horse Comics' edgy, out-of-main-stream, full-bodied Manga line. An intriguing new entry in our line-up of titles. Read More...
Oreimo - Lessons in Understanding
Aug. 20, 2012
For those readers who ever despaired at the idea of being able to be friends with a sibling—those random people living with us in our childhood home, taking up the bathroom at the worst times, and embarrassing us in front of our friends—Oreimo is a wonderfully nuanced and hilariously funny response. Read More...
Badass Brawling Bloodsuckers: Trigun Author’s BBB Is AAA
April 30, 2012
Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun was one of my first manga, and for five years I followed Dark Horse’s releases of the series. Its crazy, nearly cinematic fight sequences, memorable characters, and energetic style never ceased and kept me coming back every time, and even years after it ended I’m still personally convinced it’s the best action manga published in the US to date. Read More...
The Magic Knights are back from Dark Horse...
April 9, 2012
We always love to see whenever fans are cosplaying a Dark Horse character! Last year, at Anime Weekend Atlanta, I met some people from cosplay group The Closest Thing, portraying Hikaru, Umi, Fuu and Lantis from Magic Knight Rayearth. Read More...
Dark Horse Manga: Announcing Deva Zan!
April 9, 2012
Dark Horse has a longtime connection to the internationally respected artist of Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D, Yoshitaka Amano. Although Amano-sensei has brought many works to life with his depictions, he has never before both written and illustrated a novel—until now! Read More...
Dark Horse Manga: Announcing Blood C!
April 9, 2012
Ranmaru Kotone, artist of the manga version of the acclaimed film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, joins the universe of Blood: The Last Vampire with his adaptation of the new CLAMP TV anime series, Blood-C! Read More...