Matt Thorn to curate/edit a line of manga with Fantagraphics

[cerusee]

If you haven't already stumbled across this in the 456,997 blogs and websites where it has been extensively discussed, you may commence rejoicing now! The fantastic manga scholar and translator, Matt Thorn, will be working with the publisher Fantagraphics on an as-yet unnamed manga line.

We even have two titles! The first is A Drunken Dream,

Comments

[pseudo_tsuga]

Thank you so much for sharing this; I love both Hagio Moto and Hourou Musuko so I'm super excited. (And the translation looks to be well-done too!)

[cerusee]

Oh yeah! Thorn himself is an excellent translator, and I'd expect any work that comes out with his name on it as an editor to be top-notch; he's been openly critical of the quality of manga translations in the US lately. (And you should see him bitch about the translation of Nodame Cantabile...)