More about Yen Press
Hachette's Yen Press imprint, headed up by Kurt Hassler and Rich Johnson is certainly one of the most noteworthy of all the mainstream publishing...
Kodansha sponsors International Manga Competition
Japanese publishing giant Kodansha is apparently sponsoring an International Manga Competition:
Competition entries being accepted now!
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and publishing over 500,000...
Thailand crack down on porn
Although the headline may sound as unlikely as "New York crack down on pretzel carts" or "Iowa crack down on corn dogs", it turns...
New CLAMP in New Type
Spotted at ComiPress and all other manga news outlets: CLAMP's latest, Kobato, will be serialized in Newtype magazine:
Newtype USA, the leading anime magazine in...
Shocker: Naruto game sells well!
Via press release:
TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA) today announced that NARUTO™: Clash of Ninja 2 for Nintendo GameCube™ has qualified as...
4/3: news and notes
§ Dan Nadel has a nice picture-laved post in which he gets to go to Europe and visit with Moebius and many other...
Yen Press announces new title
Brigid at MangaBlog breaks the news of another title from Yen Press, the Hachette graphic novel imprint: With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child....
Manga: Aurora launches
Catrching up on the manga news of the week, a new publisher made their intentions known, Aurora, a subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora which...
Notable quotables
§ Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report: "Should we go to war with Iran? We only need 300 troops."
§ Joel Silver says Wonder Woman...
Here comes Speed Racer!
Emile Hirsch has been cast as Speed Racer in the upcoming movie:
The actor most recently earned critical acclaim as the charismatic Johnny Truelove in...
CPM vs Libre
Yesterday a titanic scandal emerged in the world of manga when manga publisher Libre posted on its website in English that CPM was publishing...
Dark Horse News Round-up: Atkins, MPD Psycho, Vess
A variety of PR that dropped into our mailbox from Dark Horse recently.First off, Jeremy Atkins has been promoted to Director of Publicity. Way...
