Viz sponsors manga lounge at Tezuka exhibit
Man, we've got to make a San Fran trip to see this somehow. It's hard to believe would be Tezuka's 80th birthday if he...
Let’s Play ‘Panty Explosion’
Did you ever want to be a Japanese schoolgirl? Well now you can in a new RPG called Panty Explosion!
In Atarashi Games' Panty Explosion...
Anime on Sci-Fi Channel
ComicMix reports on a Broadcasting & Cable magazine report that the Sci-Fi Channel will soon begin airing a 2 hour anime block on Mondays,...
Manga News: WARRIORS and YOTSUBA&!
§ Brigid notes what might be the first appearance of an OEL manga on the USA Today Bestseller list:
The top manga on this week’s...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching...
New Zealand responds to library issues
We missed this story last week about complaints in a New Zealand library over shelving CHOBITS (as identified by Dirk) in the kids section,...
Scooby Death note
A young artist imagines a manga-ized version of Scooby, but not quite the one you're thinking of.
Maybe the time has come for this?
Guest Review: Brandon on TEKKON KINKREET
I’ve always said that there are artists out there whose work should probably never be adapted. In most of Vonnegut’s work,...
I will never let this book out of my sight again
Just got a galley of this manga reference guide by Jason Thompson and it instantly vaulted to our must-own, must-have list. It's an alphabetical...
We’re living in NARUTO NATION
A common topic amongst comics pundits is how Marvel and DC flood racks with tie-ins and sequels and prequels and so on. Well, it...
Spotlite on…COSPLAY!
A couple of stories that illuminate this sometimes confounding activity. In Hawaii, the deck sums it up:
Passive fun isn't for hard-core anime fans who...
Jonas Moore: what are these VISUAL NOVELS???
As part of the imminent cell phone/iPod revolution many large corporations are sinking money into creating comics that can easily be morphed into cartoons...
