Wednesday, April 07, 2004

U.S. comics in a manga format: Singapore's Straits Times reports on Gotham Entertainment Group, which publishes collected editions of Marvel and DC comics in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. The $10 "specials" are a little smaller in size, but most contain the same content as the American trade paperbacks:

"For the Big Two (DC and Marvel), they are assured of the collectors' market which will still buy the trade paperbacks from speciality stores. ... What we offer DC and Marvel instead is an expansion of readership in the Asia market, which might eventually start buying the original American comics."