CMX Shuttered

DC Comics has announced plans to shut down its CMX imprint for English translated manga. “Over the course of the last six years, CMX has brought a diverse list of titles to America and we value the books and creators that we helped introduce to a new audience. Given the challenges that manga is facing in the American marketplace, we have decided that CMX will cease publishing new titles as of July 1, 2010,” said DC Comics Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio.

Fred Gallagher’s American comic series Megatokyo will transfer from the CMX imprint to DC Comics and continue publication unabated. The fate of CMX manga titles scheduled for release in July or afterwards, and the jobs of CMX staffers, are still being decided. High profile titles published by CMX include Tenjho Tenge, Emma, Crayon Shin-chan, Densha Otoko, From Eroica With Love, and Gon.

Hopefully we’ll see CMX simply scaled back and most, if not all of its titles shuffled into other publishing labels instead of just being dropped altogether. But that’s probably wishful thinking.

Source: Anime News Network