Mid-Day Monday Manga News Round-Up

* I don't know the major players, don't know the background and I frequently have a hard time parsing some of Didier Pasamonik's writing flourishes, but it looks a major move by Japanese publishers in a more formal fashion into the French-language market may be taking place through a reconstituted KAZE imprint? Yeah, that looks weird to me, too. Anyway, it appears as if whatever is going on will result in a quarterly and many more titles being published, opposed, perhaps to a kind of sustained licensing effort. I'd compare it to Kodansha going live in the US with an imprint, but this looks at first glance more like the various major Viz partners adjusting their orientation. If someone can explain this to me, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* over 3000 people attended a public memorial for manga creator Yoshito Usui, best known for his irrepressible Shin-chan character. I think this may be the first article where I've seen mentioned the possibility that his hiking-related accident in September just might have been a suicide, although the idea is fairly pooh-poohed right away.

* over at the Hero Complex blog, Liesl Bradner examines a recent work on Depression-era paper theater as a comics-equivalent, both in a formal sense and in the types of characters featured. If nothing else, you get to stare at a lot of bitchin' art. If you're more future-minded when it comes to your feature articles, there's an article here about how manhwa is maintaining its popularity as manga dips.

* finally, so as not to end this post on an arguable down note, the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com notes that the latest volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece will set records for an initial printing in that market at 2.85 million copies pressed.
 
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