Let Takashi Miike make live action AFRO SAMURAI
We hear that while Japanese directing sensation Takashi Miike was at NYCC to promote the premiere of YATTERMAN, all he could do was tell...
NYCC: Fanfare/Ponent Mon – #2347
If you have never seen any of Fanfare/Ponent Mon's books, you are missing out on some of the best comics being published today. Seriously....
A little bit on PLUTO
Over at Comics Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore reviews PLUTO: URASAWA x TEZUKA, Volume 1, the mash-up reimagining of Astro Boy by Naoki Urasawa, master...
Recession Watch: Imagi Studios
Forbes reports on how the ASTRO BOY movie is squeaking through the tough times as Imagi Studios, the production company, searches for funding...
2008 Manga Report Card for Aurora
Ed Chavez begins a series of very detailed report cards on various manga publishers, and starts with Aurora Publishing, home of mostly female-focused manga,...
Kodansha pulls licenses from TPop Germany
Many reports going around this morning about Kodansha, the Japanese publishing giant, pulling its licenses from Tokyopop's German arm. Simon Jones:
According to an official...
Manga rumblings
Along with everything else in the world, the future of manga in the US is being examined -- not that it's going anywhere, but...
American version of AKIRA?
http://www.youtube.com/v/jafd97yJFOI&hl=en&fs=1
Please enjoy this brief satirical cartoon by BRIT Harry Partridge, showing what AKIRA, Katsuhiro Otomo's classic cyberpunk vision of a future Tokyo, would be...
Spielberg/Smith OLDBOY based on manga
A few details are emerging about the troubling news that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith want to remake OLDBOY, the disturbing film about a...
More on Broccoli
ICv2 talks more about the end of the US branch of manga publisher Broccoli:
In 2007 Broccoli launched Boysenberry Books, a shonen ai imprint that...
RIP: Broccoli USA?
Gia Manry reports that Broccoli USA, the US arm of Japanese publisher Broccoli, is shutting down:
I got an anonymous tip that led me over...
