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This is how a comics publisher ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. And selling the company's neon sign on Craigslist Huge TOKYOPOP neon logo sign, used as the official hallsign at the TOKYOPOP US office. Dimensions: Width: 11ft Height: 8,5 ft TOKYOPOP logo includes TOKYOPOP sign and Robofish lit up with neon lights[...]

It's been a busy week of comics news around the internet, with two top publishers going through difficult times — Dark Horse lay offs earlier in the week and Tokyopop announcing the closure of its US operations today Meanwhile, Dynamite has Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker, Major Bummer is collected, and Michael Bay has Sentinel Prime[...]

That was the manga publisher that was. After rising on a manga boom in the noughties, the fourteen-year-old publisher of both Japanese reprint and US originated manga and mangaesque material has been laying off books and people for the last few years and now, according to The Beat, will be closing its doors at the end[...]