Glacier Bay Books is adding to its catalog while absorbing the Star Fruit Books line. Eight of its manga are now on the Sweet Shop digital platform, with more titles to follow.
Glacier Bay Books has spent the late summer and fall moving between print, digital, and the Star Fruit Books catalog it took over. In May it published Akino Kondoh's short story collection Box Garden Beetle in English after a Kickstarter campaign. Ryan Holmberg translated it, with lettering by Tim Sun and editing by Emuh Ruh and Holmberg. In August the 2026 Ignatz Awards nominated the book in the Outstanding Collection category. The nomination follows a prior Ignatz win for Glaeolia 2.
On October 4 the publisher said on Bluesky that its manga are being added to Sweet Shop, a new digital comics platform. Eight titles are available now: Pandora, Dream Another Dream, Mothers, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice II, Rabbit Game, Children of Mu-Town, and Ripples. More titles are on the way.
Nine days later it announced five new manga licenses, all named in Sunday's announcement: Serata Naminami's Oedo-chan of Moguraya, Aoi Mukoubi's A Vase of Life, Akino Kogomi's Faraway Blue, Aoi Ikebe's All I Can Do, and Ikuko Hatoyama's The Dovecote Express. Pre-orders for those five, plus two other books, open next week on Kickstarter. The publisher is also continuing its reprint releases of Star Fruit Books titles. The digital push and the new licenses share a timeline with the Star Fruit work, and the company has not separated them in its public statements.
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Glacier Bay Books announced five new manga licenses on Sunday: Serata Naminami's Oedo-chan of Moguraya, Aoi Mukoubi's A Vase of Life, Akino Kogomi's Faraway Blue, Aoi Ikebe's All I Can Do, and Ikuko Hatoyama's The Dovecote Express. Pre-orders for those titles, plus two other books, open next week on Kickstarter. The publisher is also continuing its reprint releases of Star Fruit Books titles.
Glacier Bay Books said on Bluesky on Friday that its manga are being added to Sweet Shop, a new digital comics platform. Available now on the app are Pandora, Dream Another Dream, Mothers, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice, Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice II, Rabbit Game, Children of Mu-Town, and Ripples. More titles are on the way.
The 2026 Ignatz Awards nominated Akino Kondoh's Box Garden Beetle manga in the Outstanding Collection category. Glacier Bay Books published the short story collection in English in May after a Kickstarter campaign. Ryan Holmberg translated it, with lettering by Tim Sun and editing by Emuh Ruh and Holmberg.