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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | |
| Fate | On hiatus (as of June 2019) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | |
| Products | Gay manga, clothing |
| Website | massive-goods |
Massive Goods (or simply Massive) is a fashion brand and manga publisher. The company works with LGBTQ and feminist comic artists in Japan, particularly gay manga (bara) artists, to create products featuring their artwork, and English-language translations of their works.
Massive was founded in 2013 by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins concurrent with the release of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga (Picturebox), the first English-language publication of works by Gengoroh Tagame, which Ishii and Kolbeins co-edited with Chip Kidd. [1] Massive first released a line of t-shirts featuring artwork by Tagame and Jiraiya, [2] which gained popularity in the LGBTQ hip-hop scene. [3]
On June 7, 2019, Massive went on hiatus. While the company continues to fulfill online orders, it is not presently planning new product launches or events. [4]
In partnership with other brands, Massive has launched several fashion and accessory lines, primarily featuring Jiraiya's artwork. In June 2014, Massive, Jiraiya, and Opening Ceremony launched a product line to commemorate Pride Month which featured apparel, accessories, and a Tenga sex toy. [3] [5] That same year, Mission Chinese Food and Massive released a t-shirt collaboration, also featuring art by Jiraiya. [6] A second collaboration with Opening Ceremony and Jiraiya, "Power-Up Massive", launched in 2015, [7] [8] along with a line of swim briefs with artwork by Jiraiya created by Pretty Snake, the fashion brand founded by Project Runway contestant Joe Segal. [9]
In December 2014, Fantagraphics published Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It , the first English-language anthology of gay manga. [10] Co-edited by Ishii, Kolbeins, and Kidd, Massive was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Anthology. [11]
Massive has published several English-language translations of dōjinshi, including Cretian Cow by Gengoroh Tagame, [12] and Caveman Guu and Two Hoses by Jiraiya. [12] [13]
In 2016, Massive co-produced with Koyama Press an English-language translation of What is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy, a graphic novel memoir by Rokudenashiko. [14] The memoir was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [15] That same year, Massive began work with Pantheon Books on the English-language translation of My Brother's Husband , Gengoroh Tagame's first all-ages manga. [16] The first volume in the series, translated by Ishii, won an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia. [17]
Massive Gay Manga, a publishing imprint set to launch under Bruno Gmünder Verlag in 2017, was cancelled following the dissolution of the company. [18]