Thu Dec 6, 2007 — by Mike Gold

More Manga!

Tor, Seven Seas team-up for Okzaki, others

According to an article at Publisher's Weekly by our friend Calvin Reid, Tor Book is teaming up with Seven Seas to release original manga titles as well as obtain manga licenses such Takashi Okzaki’s popular Afro Samurai.

Seven Seas founder and president Jason DeAngelis noted “it's an exciting time for the manga industry,” and said the partnership with Tor “will enable us to expand the manga market, bringing all sorts of new and varied content to fans.” Tor is well-known in the science-fiction field and has published a handful of graphic novels, but no manga. Seven Seas has produced many English-language manga generally created by non-Japanese creators outside of Japan.

The first volume of Kzaki's Afro Samurai is expected to be released next August.

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