Tezuka/Urasawa comparison
Xavier Guilbert makes the chart you all wanted , showing the original Tezuka characters from ASTRO BOY side-by-side with the Urasawa remakes from PLUTO. It's mind-boggling the degree to which Urasawa has imbued Tezuka's...
Do the Eisner Awards ignore manga?
Noah Berlatsky sums up similar thoughts by David Welsh and Simon Jones on the dearth of manga titles and creators among the recent Eisner Award nominations:
Manga doesn't need the Eisners. I do...
Business news briefs
• ECCC news: The initial launch of the BOOM!/Fox Atomic partnership will be an ongoing 28 DAYS LATER comic:
Initial launch story will be firmly based in 28 DAYS LATER continuity with the first...
The world MUST unite to make Cat Sh*t One Anime!
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Every once in a while, a video crosses your path that changes how you view the world and makes you question the fundamentals of what you thought was true. Such a video is...
Uclick offers DRAMACON app for free
Uclick and Tokyopop are releasing Svetlana Chmakova's DRAMACON #1 as a free app on the App store. The book was originally released as a trilogy of manga volumes by Tokyopop. The story of adventure...
Daisuke Muroi
Frank Santoro posts a few samples of the work of a little known but interesting manga-ka.
Laugh at the manga
Both David P. Welsh and John Jakala take a crack at listing their favorite humor manga. Lots of good stuff mentioned -- from Sgt. Frog to Slam Dunk to Club 9 Your and My...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: Business edition
§ Reed Exhibitions is hiring a marketing guru for their pop culture shows:
I am looking for someone to join our team here in Borwalk, CT as a Marketing Director to oversee all of our...
Let Takashi Miike make live action AFRO SAMURAI
We hear that while Japanese directing sensation Takashi Miike was at NYCC to promote the premiere of YATTERMAN, all he could do was tell everyone within ear shot how he'd like to do a...
NYCC: Fanfare/Ponent Mon – #2347
If you have never seen any of Fanfare/Ponent Mon's books, you are missing out on some of the best comics being published today. Seriously. They publish some of the most intelligent/riveting manga available in...
A little bit on PLUTO
Over at Comics Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore reviews PLUTO: URASAWA x TEZUKA, Volume 1, the mash-up reimagining of Astro Boy by Naoki Urasawa, master of the psychological thriller. PLUTO is the first great comic...
Recession Watch: Imagi Studios
Forbes reports on how the ASTRO BOY movie is squeaking through the tough times as Imagi Studios, the production company, searches for funding and so on:
Their boss, Douglas Glen, Imagi's chief executive, had...
