Manga

  Comics and animation lost another key figure this week. Fred Patton, a protean champion of  early anime/manga fandom passed away at age 77 this week. He had been confined to a nursing home after...

Cowboy Bepop is a pretty seminal part of the history of anime  - garnering universal acclaim when it debuted in Japan 20 years ago, it was also  a powerful part of a new wave...

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Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition, and getting a balloon in the revered Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is a landmark for any licensed character. And now Akira Toriyama's Goku, star of various Dragon Ball...

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection Cartoonist: Junji Ito Translator: Jocelyne Allen English Adaptation: Nick Mamatas Touch-up Artist and Letterer: James Dashiell Junji Ito’s original body of work often turns its human characters inside out to show how monstrous...

Tis the season for creepy comics, and horror master Junji Ito is as disturbing as ever.

Beck creator Harold Sakuishi made a very rare US appearance at NYCC and we got a chance to talk to him.

Erica Friedman explores the part of NYCC that some pros called an "anime ghetto"

by Erica Friedman   The panel was moderated by Ben Applegate, Editor at Kodansha, with guests David Lopez (All-New Wolverine), Alex de Campi (Archie vs Predator, Twisted Romance), Genevieve Valentine (Catwoman) Brenden Fletcher (Motorcrush, Batgirl) and Alejandro Arbona (Editor of Ghost in the Shell: GNN)  Applegate started with...

By Erica Friedman Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 Kōkaku Kidōtai), the 1989 comic by Masamune Shirow, adapted into the genre-defining anime directed Mamoru Oshii, is arguably the franchise best known for shaping our ideas of a...

by Erica Friedman Manga has gone mainstream and these days its common to see manga sections on library shelves and in classrooms. The ALA has been on board with graphic novels for a decade and...

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