Manga news and notes
§ If you're in the Washington DC area, you'll want to check out this show at the Japan Information and Culture Center:
Shojo Manga! Girl...
Cameron is back; rejects manga
Elusive director James Cameron has finally announced his next movie project -- it's called AVATAR, and it means he WON'T be makes Battle Angel...
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo picked up
We just wanted to run this press release because saying Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is fun! We saw this anime once and it was definitely off...
Links of many kinds
Manga Blog interviews KURT HASSLER!
MB: How did your personal tastes affect your choices? KH: I like everything. The way I’m characterized online, I’m the...
Links and thoughts
§ Rafael Kayanan thinks the Silver Surfger would look better without eyeballs.
§ Jimm Rugg talks about PLAIN JANES, the lead title in the...
The “Occasional Superheroine” of Japan?
ComiPress translates a Japanese article called The Reason I Quit as a Manga Editor:
wondered if I should ask him to redraw the manga,...
Year’s Best Manga mystery
Over at our other day job, this week's PW Comics Week presented a Critic's Poll of the year's best graphic novels. With over 50...
Breaking news: young American boy draws manga
American manga-ka are being crown in Fremont, CA:
Chris Cogdill took coloring very seriously.
But by age 3, he lost interest in cute coloring books and...
Tezuka’s APOLLO’S SONG from Vertical
YAY! YAY! YAY!
New York-based independent publisher Vertical, Inc. has announced it is publishing its third Osamu Tezuka property in June 2007. Apolloâs Song...
FRUITS BASKET hits 2 million
Tokyopop writes to remind us that Natsuki Takaya's FRUITS BASKET is one of the best selling comics in the world, although just where the...
American lesbian manga = ALM
AfterEllen.com profiles an American yuri artist, Megan Gedris and her comic YU+ME. The article doesn't actually use the term yuri, so instead of being...
MORE Minx Links
Maybe you are sick of this, but the Minx announcement seems to have capped off a year in which comics' gender issues took center...
