Comic Gear died
Comic Gear, the magazine that was trying a new way to do commercial manga which had garnered a mixed reaction, has announced that vol.3 which would have gone on sale in January has been canceled, and the magazine will cease publication.
The reason given is that they had looked at the commercial performance of the magazine till vol.2 and discussed the future prospects for vol.3 onwards with the publisher Houbunsha and had to come to the conclusion that the magazine will cease publication.
The manga that were serialized on the magazine will go their separate ways, and they advise to check the individual mangaka personal sites for info.
Also I’m pretty sure the reason the magazine failed was less the concept but more that they came into the waning magazine industry with a author line up that was full of doujinshi people.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
“Also I’m pretty sure the reason the magazine failed was less the concept but more that they came into the waning magazine industry with a author line up that was full of doujinshi people.”
Still, I’m sure we will get very intelligent counter-arguments to this point based on very strong sentiments and appeals to cynicism.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
thats shitty that the digital world is being forced upon the universe in a “cant do shit about it” fashion.
id rather give up on it all than not have something that i tangibly own.