Lolita and Maid Fashion Day at Kinokuniya this weekend
Just in case you happen to be in NYC this weekend and MoCCA doesn't cut it for ya, there's also a big all day...
Trouble Ahead #2: DramaQueen
DramaQueen is one of a number of small manga publishers that has sprung up in the past few years, specializing in boy's love and...
Trouble Ahead #1: Toykopop
Oh boy are there a lot of rumors swirling around Tokyopop! At BEA everyone had one. We're not going to repeat any until we've had...
Tokyopop: the other side
Well, now that the moral outrage has subsided a bit, other folks are coming out to say that the Tokyopop Pilot Program pact isn't...
Tokyopop: Hey, dude, totally bad contract!
UPDATE: Check out Johanna's list of Tokyopop’s greatest mistakes over the past two years:
The reviews are in! And Tokyopop's online contract for the...
Manga sales decline in Japan
Also via Simon Jones, ComicsSnob looks at an overview of 2007 manga sales in Japan:
Bullet Points:
# Japanese manga sales slip another 2.3% in 2007,...
SPEED RACER: And when the odds are against him…
Wow. I can't believe the hating being laid on Speed Racer.
I saw it this weekend, and loved it. Loved every minute of it....
Stop, Speed Racer, Stop
It's no secret that The Wachowski's SPEED RACER is primed to be the summer's first big FLOP. Nikki Finke explains:
The real problems plaguing this...
There you go, Astro Boy
This weekend in Japan, the Yakult Swallows baseball team wore throwback jerseys in their series against the Tokyo Giants. Back then, the Swallows were...
Manga report: Felipe Smith in Morning 2; Viz’s new line
How cool are American cartoonists? So cool that they are publishing them in Japan!
Felipe Smith (MBQ) will have a monthly series starting in...
More manga Ts at Uniqlo
NEW YORK – TOKYO has more on Uniqlo's Spring line of manga-themed t-shirts:
This is not just some token nod to the daily expanding...
Where the girls are
Various notes and comments on various aspects of women in comics over the past few days.
§ Reminder: It's always someone's first convention panel!....
