A little bit more about Jiro Taniguchi, mountains and solitary Japanese business men eating...
Zack Davisson has a fine obituary at TCJ which has much more info about the life of the great Jiro Taniguchi, who passed away on Saturday. One thing the piece makes clear: Taniguchi was...
RIP Jiro Taniguchi
Word is going around that manga great Jiro Taniguchi has passed away at age 69. His best known works in English include The Walking Man, The Summit of the Gods and The Magic Mountain, all meditative...
A year of free comics: Sports Manga Essentials, a sampler of sporting action
Hey it's the big game today, in case you hadn't noticed. Sports comics have had a checkered past in the US - NFL Super Pro? - but in Japan, sports manga are a respected genre that has...
Kodansha Comics to Release More Than 750 Titles on BookWalker Global
Another digital company heard from and this time in the manga arena. Bookwalker is a kind of Japanese Comixology, offering digital manga and light novels. They debuted in the US at NYCC and have deep...
Review: Baltic comics anthology S! #25 works its artful magic on Manga
This collection of gaijin mangaka — that is, Manga style comics made by non-Japanese creators — who graduated to the style of Gekiga — that is, serious dramatic Manga, as opposed to, say, Sailor...
EXCLUSIVE: more gorgeous pages from Junko Mizuno’s RAVINA THE WITCH!
Checked out EXCLUSIVE preview pages from Titan's forthcoming US release of Junko Mizuno's Ravina the Witch? to indulge in more gothic kawaii beauty.
Liberty City Anime Con 2017 announces six guests
Yesterday we reported that LeftField Media and Crunchyroll are teaming for Anime NYC m a new anime show slated for November.
As soon as we ran that we received word of the Liberty City Anime Con,...
LeftField and Crunchyroll team for Anime NYC, a new show
LeftField Media, the events company behind Awesome Con, Play Fair and more events, is bringing an anime back to NYC in 2017 with the aptly named Anime NYC, with Crunchyroll, the streaming anime service...
Get an EXCLUSIVE First Look at Titan Comics’ US Release of Junko Mizuno’s RAVINA...
The darkly beautiful fairy tales of manga artist Junko Mizuno will return to comic shelves in early 2017 with an English language edition of Ravina the Witch? from Titan Comics.
VIz announces many new acquisitions including Dragon Ball Super, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt and...
With Anime Expo in the rearview mirror many new manga titles have been announced and Viz has a bunch, including new Mobile Suit Gundam and Dragon Ball titles and omnibus editions for some of...
Rokudenashiko events in New York
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"Good for nothing" manko artist Rokudenashiko was the hit of TCAF and she's in New York for a series of events. Tonights talk is sold out (DAMN IT ALL) but she's also appearing at...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less stressed in the headlines was that the court also found...
