Comments on: It All Depends On Your Definition of Obscure http://booksquare.com/it-all-depends-on-your-definition-of-obscure/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: booksquare http://booksquare.com/it-all-depends-on-your-definition-of-obscure/comment-page-1/#comment-13211 booksquare Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:00:42 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/27/878/#comment-13211 As you might guess, I am a huge fan and proponent of manga, so I'm naturally excited to hear that the Dark Horse people are so cool (yes, extrapolating based on one person...it's raining buckets here, no time for real research!). I think you've hit on a key aspect of manga: quality. These are true stories with levels of complexity that really appeal to me. Hmm, maybe I'm secretly a 13-year old boy. As you might guess, I am a huge fan and proponent of manga, so I’m naturally excited to hear that the Dark Horse people are so cool (yes, extrapolating based on one person…it’s raining buckets here, no time for real research!).

I think you’ve hit on a key aspect of manga: quality. These are true stories with levels of complexity that really appeal to me. Hmm, maybe I’m secretly a 13-year old boy.

]]> By: daniel olivas http://booksquare.com/it-all-depends-on-your-definition-of-obscure/comment-page-1/#comment-13204 daniel olivas Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:47:50 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/27/878/#comment-13204 my one connection to dark horse: thea kuticka, who is a wonderful, award-winning poet, had been the publicity person at one of my publishers, asu's bilingual press (i mention her in my acknowledgments for "assumption and other stories"). she's now at dark horse and loves it (last i heard). she sent me a graphic novel for my son, manga in style, and i was very impressed by its quality. my son loved it (he was 13 at the time). my one connection to dark horse: thea kuticka, who is a wonderful, award-winning poet, had been the publicity person at one of my publishers, asu’s bilingual press (i mention her in my acknowledgments for “assumption and other stories”). she’s now at dark horse and loves it (last i heard). she sent me a graphic novel for my son, manga in style, and i was very impressed by its quality. my son loved it (he was 13 at the time).

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