Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE...
Paul Gravett: Article – Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga
Paul Gravett on gekiga:
During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka's Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment....
Otaku invade Romania!
http://www.youtube.com/v/KosK42_cjeE
OTAKU GO WILD IN BUCHAREST THIS WEEKEND! MULTI-CULTI APOTHEOSIS! 40-year-old virgin gypsies! Carpathian cosplay! If it's half as crayzee as that video, we...
Manga Corner
⢠Yoshihiro Yonezawa, founder of Comiket, the world's largest comics convention, has died at age 53:
Yonezawa organized the first Comiket (Comic Market) in 1975...
Consortium picks up CPM and DramaQueen
Via MangaCast news that the book distributor Consortium has picked up two manga publishers: the temporarily defunct CPM and yaoi specialist DramaQueen. MangaCast has...
Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan....
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo...
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that...
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming...
Inumaru felt she “wasn’t good at job”
A few more details on the suicide of Rin Inumaru, creator of OJARU MARU:
Rin Inumaru, the 48-year-old creator of "Ojaru Maru," apparently jumped from...
CPM announces Anime on the Web
Just to complete a manga news trifecta, CPM has just announced they'll be distributing free anime videos via Google Video...including Tezuka's BLACK JACK! Woot,...
