Westbow Press, the Christian Fiction Division of Thomas Nelson Incorporated, has inked a deal with Buzz Dixon and Marlon Schulman’s Realbuzz Studios to publish no fewer than 26 volumes of Christian-themed OEL (Original English Language) manga… [Current Realbuzz series] Serenity is a proven title with sales that its publishers say surpass “two-thirds of the titles on the mainstream manga and graphic novel on best-seller lists.” Westbow plans on releasing four new volumes of Serenity in 2008.
I don’t know why, but something seems weird about the quote about Serenity’s success there. Is it really in the top third of graphic novels and manga? I’m not arguing that it’s not, just curious…
February 13th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Buzz Dixon and Chuck Dixon are the same guy?
February 13th, 2007 at 7:06 am
No.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I am not they are the same guy either. Where did you get that?
February 13th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Completely different people. This is a story in need of an update/correction. It IS, indeed, Buzz who’s been working on those comics, and not Chuck.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:51 am
You know, I could’ve sworn that they were the same person… Ah, well. I’ll go and edit now. Sorry, everyone.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I don’t have the statistics right to hand, but it seems to me that the manga charts are top-loaded, that is, that the top-selling titles do much, much better than those a short ways down the list. So if you have Naruto and Fruits Basket selling close to 10,000 copies, and your number 9 book sells 3,000 or fewer, it’s not hard to have a book that sells better than the bottom two-thirds. Especially when you have the muscle of the Christian market behind it. And I’m sure Serenity was distributed mainly to Christian bookstores; I sure never saw it at Borders.