Manga Corner
⢠Yoshihiro Yonezawa, founder of Comiket, the world's largest comics convention, has died at age 53:
Yonezawa organized the first Comiket (Comic Market) in 1975 to display and sell dojinshi (self-published manga and novels). In...
Consortium picks up CPM and DramaQueen
Via MangaCast news that the book distributor Consortium has picked up two manga publishers: the temporarily defunct CPM and yaoi specialist DramaQueen. MangaCast has much analysis:
CPM has had a deal with Consortium before. Actually...
Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for the week ending September 17th displays the effect of the...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan.
Rather than wait multiple months for the next volume of...
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA.)
Ad Age explains (via sneaky Google cache):
Hence, the Freedom Project....
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that is not all that's been going on in Anime-land this...
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming back via the CMX imprint.
Long before the dawn...
Inumaru felt she “wasn’t good at job”
A few more details on the suicide of Rin Inumaru, creator of OJARU MARU:
Rin Inumaru, the 48-year-old creator of "Ojaru Maru," apparently jumped from the roof of her 14-story apartment complex in Tokyo on...
CPM announces Anime on the Web
Just to complete a manga news trifecta, CPM has just announced they'll be distributing free anime videos via Google Video...including Tezuka's BLACK JACK! Woot, count us in! What with this, Amazon and iTunes announcing...
Viz publishes art books
Just in time to deplete your holiday budget, Viz has announced a series of art books based on such popular properties as NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, FUSHIGI YÛGI and HANA KIMI, as well...
PR: Seven Seas launches light novels
Innovative Seven Seas ads a new line of "light novels", " which are actual novels that are geared towards manga readers, whatever that means.
Seven Seas Entertainment announced today the launch of its all-new...
