Go, Read: TCJ Round-Up Of Tokyopop Rights Situation

Sean Michael Robinson over at TCJ does a quick round-up on the rights situation at Tokyopop, the one-time category forced that on April 15 announced the May 31 closure of its North American publishing division. It's kind of all over the place -- one creator, M. Alice Legrow of Bizenghast, expects her series to be completed this summer through the company's remaining division in Europe (granted, she's the only one in her direct publishing peer group to have been published thus far). Brandon Graham of King City seems to be the most confident that he'll be able to publish his work -- now due for a collection -- and if I"m getting correctly it seems a reason for that may be that he doesn't want any media rights back other than the ability to do a trade collection. There's also some talk about what happened, with a range of theories offered up.

I hope everything works out as quickly as possible and as much in the creators' favor as they can manage. I also hope that others are taking notice of the difficulties experienced here and realize that work-for-hire solutions to publishing problems can bring with their own set of problesm. It's horrible to say this, but a modern example, something that can't be dismissed as the inexplicably poor choices of some World War II veteran 50 years ago, might be what some folks need to hear to take those issues seriously.
 
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