Harlequin Romances...Coming To A Comic Book Near You?
A recent article in the Toronto Star details Harlequin’s ambitious new manga imprint, Ginger Blossom, which will offer illustrated romances in conjunction with Oregon-based Dark Horse comics.
Harlequin has been offering its library of romances to a Japanese publisher since the late 1990s; Ginger Blossom will actually feature the artwork from these previously printed Japanese comics, along with the text of romances from their most popular authors.
Read more about it here.
2 comments:
This was very interesting. I knew they'd been doing something in the Japanese market, but using manga for Penny Jordan and Betty Neels books is something I sure woudn't have expected. It also makes me want to go dig out all my old contracts to check the royalty percentage for comics. :)
The manga books as they're done in Japan are lovely. Several of my Harlequin Historicals (medievals) have been done as manga books. Since we don't get copies of them, I ordered one of them from Amazon.jp. It's really well done . . . and what a thrill to see my characters and scenes depicted in pictures! The story was clear even though I couldn't read the Japanese dialogue and captions.
I'm assuming the Dark Horse versions will be in English; I can't wait to see them.
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