The new comic release list from ComicList, compiled by LoveManga.

Seven Seas has published an interview with its founder Jason DeAngelis, where he talks about his experience with manga and Seven Seas Entertainment.

Source: MangaBlog

ICv2 reports that Dark Horse will be releasing (and re-releasing) several new manga in 2007:

Manga:
- Tanpenshu by Hiroki Endo - January 07

Artbook:
- Akira Club by Katsuhiro Otomo - February 07

OEL:
- Red String by Gina Biggs

Repackage:
- Dominion by Shirow Masumune - January 07
- Dominion Conflict 1 by Shirow Masumune - February 07
- Orion by Shirow Masumune - March 07
- Appleseed by Shirow Masumune - April 07
- Black Magic by Shirow Masumune
- Gunsmith Cats Omnibus - February 07
- Gunsmith Cats: Burst - April 07

Love Manga interviews Simon Jones of Icarus Publishing in Icarus Publishing Chat.

The first issue of a new novel magazine called The Ruby will be released by Kadokawa Shoten on October 13th.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa (53), co-founder and president of the famous semi-annual Tokyo Comiket event, passed away on October 1st due to lung cancer. Yoshihiro Yonezawa is also a well-known manga critic, some of his works include:

- "Sengo Shojo Manga Shi" (Postwar History of Shojo Manga)
- "Sengo SF Manga Shi" (Postwar History of Science Fiction Manga)
- "Sengo Gag Manga Shi" (Postwar History of Gag Manga)
- "Shoujo Manga no Sekai" (The World of Shoujo Manga)
- "Shounen Manga no Sekai" (The World of Shounen Manga)

Akita Shoten will be releasing a new bishoujo magazine titled "Champion Red Ichigo" later this year.

VIZ Media will be releasing Death Note in various European countries later this year as reported earlier. However, on the topic of whether the company will bring Death Note to other parts of the world, VIZ informed Papo de Budega that it currently doesn't have plans of releasing the manga in Brazil and other Latin America countries.

The first issue of a new magazine from Square-Enix titled "GanGan Custom" will be released on 9/30. The debut issue of GanGan Custom will serialize a new manga series called Souten no Koumori (Bat of the Blue Sky) by Hiromu Arakawa, creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.

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A special issue of Comic BomBom titled Abrakadabra was released on 9/29. The magazine contains a preview "chapter 0" of the upcoming "Negima!? neo" manga, set to start in the November issue of Comic BomBom.