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Manga in the Sunday Funnies
Manga is coming to the Sunday paper.
Universal Press Syndicate is offering a pair of TOKYOPOP-produced manga features to Sunday newspaper comics sections starting in January, according to an Associated Press story. The strips are "Van Von Hunter" and "Peach Fuzz" — both from American creators. "Van Von Hunter" is a comedy fantasy about a defender of evil and his memory challenged girl sidekick by Mike Schwark and Ron Kaulfersch of Pseudome Studios. "Peach Fuzz" is about a 9-year-old girl and her pet ferret and is created by Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges. The duo won TOKYOPOP's Rising Stars of Manga competition.
The Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Vancouver Sun, Detroit News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer have already signed up for the strips. Editors at those papers say they want manga to bring in younger readers, something the newspaper biz desperately needs. Newspapers face declining circulation and aging readership and — much like the U.S. comics biz — are looking for ways to replenish their audience. If the strips catch on, the trend could spread to smaller newspapers and open up a new market and audience for manga makers and companies such as TOKYOPOP. The Los Angeles-based company began producing a manga strip for top teen magazine CosmoGirl earlier this year.
Manga strips also have the potential to inject some much-needed energy and innovation into newspaper strips, which are notoriously resistant to change and hypersensitive to controversy. It also may help bridge the gap between the comicstrip world and the manga and comicbook communities, which rarely seem to intersect with the exception of a few crossover talents.
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