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Need a Manga Fix? Try a Bento

OEL creators unite for a new manga site. Hey, that rhymes.


Okay, this is pretty cool: a group of former TOKYOPOP OEL creators, including DramaCon/Night School creator Svetlana Chmakova, The Dreaming's Queenie Chan (who also drew the Dean Koontz manga In Odd We Trust), TOKYOPOP Rising Star of Manga's Lanny Liu, and quite a few others (many of whom also have homes at WirePop), have all joined forces to start their own manga-reading site called Bento Comics (via Deb Aoki).

At the site you can read manga from the creators, but for those of you who favor print or want a re-read, there's a pretty neat option: you can actually compile the stories you like best into a custom anthology. You get to pick from a set of covers, then you pull together the stories (you must end up between 32 and 740 pages total), and it'll give you a price and you can buy the book direct from Lulu, so you can have those pages in print. Kinda cool.

As for the titles themselves, there are a bunch-- 17 total --most of which are short stories of around 10 pages each. If you want a rec on what to read there, Queenie Chan's horror short Ten Years Ago Today is pretty cool, and  Dan Hess's Nekoshima is adorable.     
 
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lanaswifton April 1, 2010 at 11:50 a.m.
Dan Hess is freakin' awesome. I love his art.

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