Rumble Pak (comics)

"Rumble Pak" is an Original English-language manga anthology series published by eigoMANGA. "Rumble Pak" showcases original comics created by artists from around the world including a line-up of original stories written and produced by predominantly independent American comics artists. Rumble Pak is eigoMANGA's first commercial comic book publication and is considered its flagship product. After its release, "Rumble Pak" rapidly became a recognized Amerimanga publication within the comic book industry.Fact|date=April 2008

The first edition of "Rumble Pak" was released to comic book stores domestically and internationally on February 2004 and the publication was re-released to North American mainstream media stores on October 2004.

"Rumble Pak" Issue #1 was featured in an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art from July through October 2004. [http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=headlines&page=360] Also in October, eigoMANGA launched a rock concert event celebrating the mainstream re-release of "Rumble Pak" at a Tower Records store in San Mateo, California called Rumble Invasion. The rock band Ludo headlined the inaugural event. Rumble Invasion has become a regular event for eigoMANGA. The December 2005 Rumble Invasion event was hosted by the comic book franchise store "Things From Another World" at two store locations in San Francisco and Universal City.

"Rumble Pak" spawned a spin-off publication featuring stories catered toward female readers called Sakura Pakk.

On October 2005, eigoMANGA formed a joint-venture with Devil's Due Publishing to publish an on-going series for "Rumble Pak". Volume 2 of the "Rumble Pak" series was released to stores on April 6, 2006. [http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/7596.html] .

ee also

*List of Devil's Due Publishing publications

External links

* [http://www.RumblePak.com Rumble Pak Website]
* [http://www.eigomanga.com eigoMANGA Website]