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Anime Central - Day One - Fanboy Entertainment
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For years, college sports teams have been taking insults and turning
them into nicknames and mascots. C.B. Cebulski had the same idea when he
left Central Park Media, where he had operated the company's comics lines,
to set up his own publishing house. Since Cebulski had a reputation as
a big manga fan, his wife suggested calling the company "Fanboy Entertainment."
The joke stuck, and it became the company's name. Cebulski was surprised
to learn that no one had registered "Fanboy" as a trademark with the U.S.
government, so he snapped up the name. |
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| Fanboy's latest projects are manga from Japan and the U.S. Spellbound
is a new title from Tomoko Taniguchi. Sidekicks will be written by J. Torres
and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa. Cebulski plans to publish both titles first
in the U.S., then export them to Japan. He's especially proud of being
able to first publish Taniguchi's latest shojo title in America before
the series is published in Japan. Still, Cebulski admitted it could be
tough to convince comics special stores to carry the new material. |
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Cebulski has a potentially valuable alliance with Kia Asamiya. He plans
to publish prints, posters and art books from Asamiya's recent series,
including Nadesico, Silent Mobius, Dark Angels and Steam Detectives. Fanboy
is preparing a colorized version of the Dark Angels - Phoenix Resurrection
series to which Asamiya will add the coloring (at Animazement, the artist
called this color manga his "challenge to the U.S. comics industry). |
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| The Asamiya art project was planned with the knowledge that Japanese
art often is pirated in wall scroll form in the U.S. (At Animazement, guest
artists refused to sign bootleg scrolls.) "We're trying to do artwork that
hasn't been seen yet," said Cebulski, "and were doing limited edition,
numbered prints so you know it's authentic." That means the Asamiya art
will be more expensive to produce and sell, he said. |
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