No Starch Press to publish "The Manga Guide" series

[JustThisGuy]

From their October 7 press release:

San Francisco, CA, October 7, 2008—No Starch Press, publisher of geek entertainment classics like Steal This Computer Book, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, and The Cult of Mac, is launching a new Edu-Manga series this winter. Translations of best-selling Edu-Manga guides from Ohmsha, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, this landmark series combines authentic Japanese comics with serious educational content.

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The English translations of these Japanese best sellers retain their Japanese character (look for wisecracking fairies and examples about ramen noodle prices) while remaining eminently readable and clear. The lead title in the series, The Manga Guide to Statistics (9781593271893, November 2008), will be followed by The Manga Guide to Databases (9781593271909, December 2008) and The Manga Guide to Calculus (9781593271947, March 2009). No Starch Press projects at least eight titles in this new series by the end of 2009.

It'll be interesting to see how well these go over in the North American market. It's kind of a shame they didn't launch these titles about 12 months ago, because then I would've been tempted to pick up that database guide ... maybe it'll still make a good gag gift for a coworker.