Seattle P-I Gets Peach Fuzz

According to this USA Today story (hat tip to the Spurge), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will attempt to reach a younger audience next year by publishing the Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges manga Peach Fuzz in their Sunday comics section starting early January. The comic in question (sample here) about a delusional nine year old girl and her pet ferret, was first published earlier this year by Tokyopop after the artists submitted the work to that company's Rising Stars of Manga competition.

How the work will physically convert from the vertical book format (already published in the standard American left-to-right as opposed to the reverse Japanese right-to-left flow found with alot of manga) to the more confined narrow horizontal format of your typical daily newspaper strip will be less interesting than seeing whether or not the phenomenal popularity manga currently enjoys with the kids these days in the bookstore market will translate to the much-needed circulation growth for today's struggling daily newspapers.