World Fandom June 30th 2025
On Writing Manga for the American Market
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Psy-Comm, Tokyopop and flirting with controversy Two creators of American Manga dive right into the guts of creating an original English language manga and all that went with it.
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Tony Salvaggio
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Tony Salvaggio is a writer as well as the Pipeline Technical Director for Rooster Teeth Animation, and an animator and designer in the video games industry. He is co-creator of the manga-influenced series "Psy-Comm" from Tokyopop and the steampunk adventure "Clockwerx" from Humanoids Publishing (both internationally and in the US). As a freelance journalist, Tony has penned the column "Calling Manga Island" for Comicbookresources.com, and has worked on various video game and manga related writing projects. When he isn't playing with his bands Deserts of Mars, and Rise from Fire he is co-hosting the Castle of Horror podcast, and and working on his next big comics writing adventure.
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Jason Henderson
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Jason Henderson is a Locus bestselling author of novels, comics and games. He’s the author the hit Alex Van Helsing series, the creator of the comic Sword of Dracula and writer for the comic Ben 10 from IDW. He also hosts the weekly horror movie podcast Castle of Horror. An attorney, Jason lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.