Icarus Publishing is a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 publisher.

Established in 2002, Icarus Publishing specializes in localizing hentai

Hentai

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 for the English market. The publisher's first release is the anthology AG, which contained both original American comics and translated Japanese material. The anthology is ongoing, and is now focused exclusively on Japanese manga. In December 2007, Icarus Publishing started releasing AG on BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. On October 24, 2008, started releasing AG Digital through "e-publishing pioneer DriveThruComics".

In late 2004 Icarus Publishing began releasing trade paperback collection of stories which were serialized in AG. AG is the longest running manga anthology in North America. AG is announced to end at issue 110 but is being continued online through direct downloads and BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol.

Selected Titles

• A Wish of My Sister
  A Wish of My Sister
  is an erotic one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masahiro Itosugi about a series of short stories, where the relationships of Keisuke, his sister and his classmate take up four of the total eight chapters. The manga is serialised in Icarus Publishing's magazine Digital Comic AG, from...
  
  
• Anzu: The Shards of Memory
• Blue Eyes
• Council of Carnality Unlimited
• Innocence
• Midara
• Miku's Sexual Orgy Diary
• Patriot
• Pet Humiliation
• Patch Work
• Slave Contract
• Taboo District

External links

• Icaruscomics.com - Warning: Adult Content
• Comics Reporter interview with Simon Jones
• Mania interview with Simon Jones