The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Eric Stephenson’s ComicsPro speech
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week’s podcast the More to Come Crew -...
Viz announces NEW Urasawa in English – MASTER KEATON
Naoki Urasawa is probably the greatest living genre cartoonist. Sorry ya'll but it's all true. Combining dense, suspenseful plotlines with thrilling, heart stopping artwork that never sacrifices character, he's just the master. He's even won an Eisner Award.Works in English, all published by Viz include MONSTER, PLUTO and 20th CENTURY BOYS. And now, MASTER KEATON, an early (pre-Monster) work from 1988 about a heroic insurance investigator who goes around using his archaeological skills to solve mysteries. SOLD. The series was co-written by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki.
Moyoco Anno is coming to TCAF with INSUFFICIENT DIRECTION
Josei Manga superstar Moyoco Anno is comif to this year's TCAF. WOOT! It's her second US convention—she appeared at New York Comic Con in 2012—and the fact she's back for more is pretty exciting....
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: A New Con for New York Conflicts with...
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week’s podcast the More to Come Crew -...
Fantagraphics to publish MASSIVE gay manga
As the diaspora of former PictureBox projects begins, it's just been announced that Fantagraphics is picking up MASSIVE a huge overview of gay manga and its creators, put together by the same team as...
Japan launches worldwide assault via its own anime channel
The Japanese government is taking matters into its own hands by spending 15.5 billion yen ($14.7 million) to launch its own TV network with an eye to foreign distribution.
Here’s a peek at Miyazaki’s post-retirement samurai manga
As we recently reported, legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki has retired from filmmaking, but he's rumored to be returning to cartooning, working on a period "Samurai manga," according to associates. Well, it sounded a bit...
Miyazaki working on a samurai manga, post retirement
Revered animator Hayao Miayazaki announced his retirement from moviemaking a few months ago; his final (we think) film The Wind Rises has just opened in Japan and will come to America in February. So...
31 Days of Halloween: Akira Toriyama’s COWA! and seven other new digital series from...
Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by DragonBall Z's Toriyama about a cute half vampire were-koala. That...
Webcomic Alert: Bani Garu, Lea Hernandez’s history of Gainax
BoingBoing has just introduced a new webcomic and it's a doozy: Bani Garu, a history of Gainax Studio, the legendary Japanese animation studio. There's an intro to the strip here and here's the...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – DC’s 3D Cover Woes
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week's episode, Heidi and the rest of the...
