Anime Expo: Viz Announces New Titles For Early 2018 including Fire Punch and FULLMETAL...
With Anime Expo wrapping up we have some manga publishing announcements, including Viz's new licenses for early 2018. New books include FIRE PUNCH, a dystopian...
TCAF: Border officials detained one exhibitor for two hours
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the highlights of the North American
comics year, but there is always a little anxiety about border...
Podcast: Four Women in a Hotel Room at TCAF Episode 2: Libraries, Croissants, Manga,...
https://soundcloud.com/heidi-macdonald-3/four-women-in-a-hotel-room-at-tacf-episode-2
Welcome back to episode 2 of Four Women in a Hotel Rooms At TCAF starring myself, Erica Friedman, Deb Aoki and Brigid Alverson. After...
PODCAST: Four Women in a Hotel Room At TCAF Episode 1 – In which...
Welcome to Four Women in a Hotel Room, what may or may not be a daily podcast report from TCAF. I'm Heidi MacDonald and...
Avengers vs Zombies manga gets star cover variants
I guess I missed this when it was first announced, but Marvel is putting out an English version of Avengers: Zombies Assemble by Yusaku Komiyama...
Berserk has sold more than 1 million copies in the US
Berserk, the best selling manga by Kentaro Miura, is big in Japan and since it launched from Dark Horse in 2003 it’s been a...
Report: 50% of anime fans are now open to yaoi themes
Call it yaoi – or boys love or shonen ai - a lot of people are still puzzled by this genre of manga. Featuring gay...
A Year of Free Comics: Assassination Classroom #1 by Yūsei Matsui
Yūsei Matsui's Assassination classroom (published by Viz here in the US) has an outrageous premise even for a manga: an immensely powerful alien who...
PREVIEW: Body Parts Get Severed and Link Whines in “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight...
The Legend of Zelda franchise has spread its lore far and wide since it’s 1986 Japanese release. Aside from being mistakenly called “Zelda”...
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...
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...
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?...
