Japanese Government to recognize foreign manga!
Fox News and other outlets report that the Japanese government is planing to give away a sort of Novel Prize to foriegn (non-Japanese) comics arrtists:
The Japanese government announced Tuesday it will award its first...
More Sana Takeda Art
Japanese artist Sana Takeda has gotten perhaps her biggest mainsteam exposure via her cover for HEROES FRO HIRE #13, but she has a website and its really worth a look. Obviously, some of her...
Law cracks down on Japanese manga pirates!
In a story that will send an icy finger of dread down the spines of the majority of today's comics readers, three geeks were arrested in Japan for file-sharing manga. They included one boy...
Koontz and Queenie Chan team for Del Rey
Note, this is an OGN not an adaptation.
Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that it has acquired an original graphic novel starring Odd Thomas,...
DEATH NOTE banned in Beijing
This story from Reuters is a bit brief but it seems a government crackdown on crime comics has swept up such things as DEATH NOTE in China:
China's capital is seizing ghost and horror...
Viz sponsors manga lounge at Tezuka exhibit
Man, we've got to make a San Fran trip to see this somehow. It's hard to believe would be Tezuka's 80th birthday if he were still alive -- he died terribly young (61).
PS: WILL...
Let’s Play ‘Panty Explosion’
Did you ever want to be a Japanese schoolgirl? Well now you can in a new RPG called Panty Explosion!
In Atarashi Games' Panty Explosion ($20) players take on the roles of psychic Japanese schoolgirls...
Anime on Sci-Fi Channel
ComicMix reports on a Broadcasting & Cable magazine report that the Sci-Fi Channel will soon begin airing a 2 hour anime block on Mondays, starting on June 11.
The schedule has yet to be set...
Manga News: WARRIORS and YOTSUBA&!
§ Brigid notes what might be the first appearance of an OEL manga on the USA Today Bestseller list:
The top manga on this week’s USA Today Top 150 Books list is Warriors, Tokyopop’s manga...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching on the US as well.
The practice of adapting stories...
New Zealand responds to library issues
We missed this story last week about complaints in a New Zealand library over shelving CHOBITS (as identified by Dirk) in the kids section, but it appears things are being worked out with...
