Publishers Weekly reports that the CLAMP manga collective has signed a deal with Dark Horse Books to produce an original manga series that will be released simultaneously in the United States, Japan and South Korea beginning in 2009.
According to PW, the publisher will release the series in a new format that it calls “mangettes,” 80-page digests that will come out on a monthly schedule.
The four-woman manga team — Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, Mokona, Satsuki Igarashi — is known for such popular titles as Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, xxxHolic, Legal Drug and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle.
Update: MangaBlog has the official press release
