Movie tidbits
Variety parses the Comic Book Movies/Itochu pact, boiling it down to a wish to make films based on Shotaro Ishinomori's work.
Itochu's interest in...
Cartoonist leaps to death
Mangaka Rin Inumaru commited suicide this weekend, apparently worried about her work. She created the character "Ojarumaru" which we weren't familiar with, but Googling...
Naruto in USA Today top 25
NARUTO continues its relentless assault on the bestseller lists, as it jumps to #21 on the USA Today Booklist, a previously unknown height or...
More on Shonen Jump’s yaoi trend
Simon at Icarus Publishing boils down that article on the evolving editorial slant of Shonen Jump that ComiPress linked to last week, and boils...
Bandai gets tough with fansubbers
Anime News Network and many other places are reporting a new get-tough attitude from Bandai regarding fan-made translations of their movies, including things...
Space Otaku shame: fails physical
A first, pioneering effort at cosplay in space has been halted by a shocking development: Space tourist Daisuke Enomoto has failed his...
Queenie Chan on THE DREAMING 2
Queenie Chan has finished THE DREAMING 2 and posts cool header art at her LJ:
The Dreaming (Book 2): Is finished. YAY!!! All 181...
Cons around the nation: Wichita, Seattle
Wichita, KS survives the trauma of cosplay, as the second Anime Festival Wichita draws to a close and a reporter wonders at the ability...
MILLAR live!
Mark Millar will be the live guest on Fanboy Radio this Sunday. Gee I wonder what he will talk about!
âThis is Markâs third appearance...
ComiKet heck!
Naniwa at MangaCast continues his account of ComiKet, the world's biggest comics show, with 300,000 attendees who are there to buy fan made comics....
Girl geeks flood Otome Road
Wired takes a look at doujinshi, visiting ComiKet and the gender-sepaated geek districts of Tokyo:
Higashi-Ikebukoro is one of Tokyo's outermost neighborhoods, but it's...
