Iris Print Closing

Two year old California based Iris Print, a publisher specializing in original American manga-style boys-love comics, has announced that the company is “shutting down.”

ICv2 reports, “The demise of Iris Print resulted from lower sales caused by the glutted manga market where the number of new releases has overwhelmed any growth in sales. Nowhere has this over abundance been more obvious than in the BL or yaoi category. Though retailers interviewed by ICv2 report that yaoi titles continue to sell, the sales increases have been modest and insufficient to match the huge increase in the number of yaoi/BL releases.”