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People Notice IDW's Deal with Tokyopop…

Once upon a time, this story may have been reversed.

IDW Publishing and Tokyopop have announced that IDW's international arm will be managing the Tokyopop foreign rights catalogue for non-English language markets.

IDW International oversees all international licensing of the  IDW catalogue and its partners, including Archie and Oni Press. While Tokyopop foreign rights catalogue consists of over 100 manga and graphic novel IPs.

Founded in 1997 by Stu Levy, Tokyopop established a  market for manga in North America, and published thousands of books, distributed anime and Asian films on home video and television, licensed merchandise to consumer goods companies, created graphic novels of major brands.

They also pissed off a lot of creators and fans towards the end of their initial publishing boom as they suddenly contracted – and issued controversial contracts – in the USA and the UK at least. They were still big in Germany.

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But a lot of folk are still very annoyed… and this announcement was the perfect opportunity to some of them to remind everyone why.

https://twitter.com/stevewmorris/status/961702289072361473

I bumped into Stu Levy last year at MCM London Comic Con and he was all full of plans. I suggested he may want to do a little PR repair first and reach out to people. Maybe IDW could help him with that as well?


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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