Comics and books

An interview with Dark ‘s Scott Allie about, and preview pages for, Solomon Kane. (Submitted by Sitting Duck)

Comic book company Devil’s Due Publishing and manga distributor Digital Manga Publishing have an agreement for DDP to develop an original comic based on Hideyuki’s Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D novels named Vampire Hunter D: American Wasteland. It will ship in monthly issues, but there are no announcements for the creative staff or a release date as yet.

Japanese publisher Kodansha has established Kodansha USA and will transfer rights to its manga titles directly to this subsidiary that will be based in New York. This way the company can publish and sell directly, which should start this year in September. Publisher Del Rey says that Kodansha has not pulled any of their titles.