BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY

Over the last few years, since i moved to Japan, I have become more and more involved in doing coordinator and editor type work, as well as my main work of actual writing. So I decided recently I should formalise that into a specific section of Boychild Productions, with the name of BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY.

I've got involved with help to organise the manga section of the Bristol Comic Expo in the UK. In 2006 we brought along its first Japanese guest, Sakura Mizuki, direct from Japan for his first visit to the UK. Then in 2007 we put together 12 manga creators in a specific 'manga alleyway', including 5 Japanese creators and two Chinese. This year the manga section will be even larger. I also became involved in organising the translation of a famous Japanese manga book into English for a UK publisher. I worked as the coordinator between a US publisher and a Japanese artist on the production of a150 page book last year. Recently another UK publisher asked me to find a Japanese manga artist for their new book and to find another Japanese artist for a Library event. I have also started working with a manga agent in Tokyo on similiar things.

So the BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY will be the name for this type of work I do alongside the Japanese agent from now on. The main thing we will specialise in is finding Japanese (but also Chinese and Korean) manga artists for American and European publishers looking for 'real' manga artist to work on their books. We can also do the same for design, advertising companies and magazines. We already have several artists sign up for this, but we need more. So submit your artwork to us to be considered as one of the list of artists that companies look at. A special website for this is being prepared now, and the money details worked out. Publishers and companies can contact BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY already to say what kind of artist they are looking for.

Contact me in English:
info@boychildproductions.co.uk