Tea with Baby, The Stars Shine Bright
We're not entirely sure what that means, either, but the New York Anime Festival is coming up FAST -- at the end of the...
Morimoto at NYAF!
Okay, here is one celebrity we can get excited about -- or more accurately, his king yellowtail stew.
The New York Anime Festival...
Freak-out of the day: Anime eyes
As we've noted here many times, the anime/manga movement is best seen as having its greatest cultural impact as a fashion/lifestyle trend (a la...
PLUTO! URASAWA!
More here.
BTW, Viz has broken the comics industry wide open, debuting their incredible YELLOW BAGS at this show. Demand is high.
SD08: Fanfare/Ponent Mon — c04
Steven Robson or Fanfare/Ponent Mon, publisher of some of the best manga on earth, writes that he'll have sneak peeks of Eisner nominee Jiro...
The Manga Moment
Yesterday we trekked out to the Brooklyn Art Museum to see the Takashi Murakami show on its very last day, and so did a...
Barack Obama in the media
While Oh! Great adds him to the pages of Air Gear,
Barry Blitt's New Yorker cover has other ideas.
To us, this is a...
Youka Nitta swipes
Frank Santoro was right! Popular boys love manga-ka Youka Nitta has admitted to lots and lots of tracing.
In her webpage notice, Nitta directly...
Manga moments
§ ICv2 finds out more about Viz's original manga initiative:
Are you looking for manga-style properties?If by "manga" you mean what is generally considered manga...
Morning Manga updates
§ Correction 8/13: These titles were announced as cancelled by a Tokyopop distributor, but ToykoPop has not announced them as cancelled as of yet:
Tokyo...
More on thinking person’s manga
Much soul-seacrhing in the blogosphere today over whether manga is doomed to be a medium of kiddies and wanna-be ninjas. Much of it was...
Brandon Graham’s King City Vol. 2
Apparently, the rumor going around a few weeks ago that Tokyopop was allowing some of its creators to get the rights back to their...
