Dallas Middaugh Promoted to Associate Publisher at Del Rey

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Del Rey Manga Gets Associate Publisher
And Director of Licensing and Acquisitions
April 25, 2006

Dallas Middaugh has been promoted to Associate Publisher of Del Rey Manga (from Director of Manga, see "Del Rey Announces Manga Line"), and will relocate from Los Angeles to New York to take the position. Middaugh had been instrumental in Del Rey's growth in the manga business, and has been with Del Rey manga since the imprint's launch in 2003. He came to Del Rey from Viz, so has strong roots in the manga business.

Del Rey has added Mutsumi Miyazaki to its manga team as Director of Licensing and Acquisitions; she will report to Middaugh. Miyazaki was most recently Acquisitions Manager at Tokyopop. She will be charged with continuing to develop Del Rey's relationship with Kodansha, as well as being involved with "identifying and acquiring some of the hottest manga from Japan."

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[Jarred]

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Aww, poor Chris. You couldn't even quote his press release that was posted yesterday. [img]/images/graemlins/cry00000.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[guyverfanboy]

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Aww, poor Chris. You couldn't even quote his press release that was posted yesterday. [img]/images/graemlins/cry00000.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Whoops. [img]/images/graemlins/shy00000.gif[/img] Sorry, I don't look at AoD all the time for anime/manga related news.

[michaelwb]

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Aww, poor Chris. You couldn't even quote his press release that was posted yesterday. [img]/images/graemlins/cry00000.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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No kidding. The front page of AoD is just a treasure drove of newsiness.

I read it every day (several times a day in fact!)

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Is it just me or is Del Rey getting people from other companies? I mean, it's really just two but ehhh....

[Harafan]

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Is it just me or is Del Rey getting people from other companies? I mean, it's really just two but ehhh....

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Actually, that seems pretty common in publishing. According to rumor, editors change publishers all of the time in the business. I'm surprised there isn't more publisher jumping in the manga industry -- but I guess that since the manga publishers are all spread out over the U.S., it isn't as easy as book publishing where everyone is concentrated in NYC.