The new edition of PW Comics Week has arrived in my in-box, and I’m a little disoriented. Aside from a banner ad for Dramacon, there’s no coverage of Tokyopop’s OEL initiative. I… What? Where am I? Who are you?
That absence aside, there’s plenty of manga coverage in the form of Ian Brill’s piece on Yaoi-Con, hitting the highlights and major announcements. Apparently, not only can I eagerly anticipate You Higuri’s Gorgeous Carat from Blu, I can look forward to her Gorgeous Carat Galaxy from Digital Manga. (But will I have to hold off on reading one to avoid spoiling the other?)
To get my OEL hype fix, I need only look just about everywhere else. Coincidentally, there was a piece on Morning Edition today about the continuing decline in circulation of daily newspapers. Will manga be able to help reverse the trend? Or at least make the average reader age skew a bit younger than 53?
Speaking of manga in interesting forms and venues, I was interested to see that Tokyopop has branched out into the radio drama format to promote its titles (via yesterday’s Lying in the Gutters at Comic Book Resources). Lea Hernandez finds more reaction from creators over at her LiveJournal.