Forum - View topicNEWS: Dark Horse Comics Lays Off 7 Employees
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vashfanatic
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Wow, okay, I've read a lot that Tim Ervin has edited. Layoffs suck.
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The Xenos
 Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
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Damn. I believe it was Tim Ervin who I meet a number of years ago at a Dark Horse manga panel at Otakon. I was just getting into more manga at the time, mainly Berserk and the forthcoming Hellsing which he was talking about. Though I had gotten into manga with their Lone Wolf and Cub, I think the first actual manga I read. He's been involved in some fantastic titles over the years and Dark Horse is simply one of the best American publishers for manga, certainly for the titles I'm into. The only one that may come close is Viz's Signature lines, but that's cheating since they have Japanese publishers are parent companies. That's rather shocking that someone who's done as well and as acclaimed as Dark Horse is cutting editors.
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
 Posts: 3820 Location: Louisville, KY |
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....crap manga companies here hare having a hard hard time, i try to buy series that I like but i do wish that more would go to the digital part, it's just easier to store.
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Blood-
 Bargain Hunter Posts: 24327 |
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Sorry to hear this. Ironically, I've just ordered Berserk 20 thru 34 because of TRSI's Dark Horse sale. I wonder what impact, if any, these layoffs will have on DH's manga lines in the future.
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CAIMERAMAN
Posts: 30 Location: Washington, DC |
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I think Dark Horse, like a great deal of publishers, is just going through changes to coincide with the economic climate as well as changes in the manga market in the United States from a sales perspective. Most people assumed the sales were relatively okay, but you have to count piracy and a host of other factors for affecting the bottom line. The editors were amazing for their efforts over the years, but I guess Dark Horse couldn't continue to bear the expense.
We have to remember that Dark Horse is one of the biggest independent publishers and has a unique manga lineup, but it's small in comparison to the established big two comic book publishers and the known manga publishers such as Viz. All in all, Dark Horse, and its employees, live or die off the sales. |
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WeirDiE_InC
 Posts: 418 Location: The GVRD |
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I didn't realized Dark Horse was such a small company, or is that just their manga branch? |
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adam_omega
 Posts: 256 Location: Seven Seas |
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That's comics/manga/everything. 100 employees is quite a large staff for a comics company that isn't DC or Marvel. |
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Gombos
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DH's manga lines will remain unaffected.
As to the question of the number of employees working DH manga, there are two, full-time. A handful of editors might have a manga project here or there. |
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Jaymie
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100 is huge. Tokyopop only has 6 staff members. And it used to have 200 at one point. It's very sad for those 7 employees, but laying off 7 employees isn't as bad as 194 over the course of a few short years. |
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ikillchicken
 Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Stay strong Dark Horse. You guys rock.
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Shadow_s_Writer
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I wonder how much Measures 66 & 67 is involded with this (A new Oregon corperate receipts taxes.)
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Lightning Leo
Posts: 311 Location: Earth |
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That sucks to hear, especially given our chronically ill economy (or is it...? dundundun!
 ). Dark Horse has put out some seriously well-done localizations, so I have to give them props on their manga section's work. Best of wishes wherever they go.
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Not a Jellyfish
 Posts: 539 Location: Boston, MA |
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This doesn't bode well. As someone whose dream it is to be a comic/manga editor, and who was looking to DH as a potential career prospect, I am sad for the company and for the future of the US manga industry.
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