Kodansha sponsors International Manga Competition
Japanese publishing giant Kodansha is apparently sponsoring an International Manga Competition:
Competition entries being accepted now!
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and publishing over 500,000 copies weekly, ‘Morning’ is the biggest and most prominent manga...
Thailand crack down on porn
Although the headline may sound as unlikely as "New York crack down on pretzel carts" or "Iowa crack down on corn dogs", it turns out sexy manga had inadvertantly been bundled with more...
New CLAMP in New Type
Spotted at ComiPress and all other manga news outlets: CLAMP's latest, Kobato, will be serialized in Newtype magazine:
Newtype USA, the leading anime magazine in North America, is pleased to announce a special agreement with...
Shocker: Naruto game sells well!
Via press release:
TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA) today announced that NARUTO™: Clash of Ninja 2 for Nintendo GameCube™ has qualified as a Player’s Choice title, which is reserved for the best-selling...
4/3: news and notes
§ Dan Nadel has a nice picture-laved post in which he gets to go to Europe and visit with Moebius and many other arty folk.
§ Marjane Satrapi has a MySpace page.
§This year's...
Yen Press announces new title
Brigid at MangaBlog breaks the news of another title from Yen Press, the Hachette graphic novel imprint: With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child.
The author is Keiko Tobe. “It is a fictionalized account...
Manga: Aurora launches
Catrching up on the manga news of the week, a new publisher made their intentions known, Aurora, a subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora which specializes in josei -- women's manga. Josei manga is the...
Notable quotables
§ Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report: "Should we go to war with Iran? We only need 300 troops."
§ Joel Silver says Wonder Woman is war at Rotten Tomatoes:
"For years now, Marvel’s just been...
Here comes Speed Racer!
Emile Hirsch has been cast as Speed Racer in the upcoming movie:
The actor most recently earned critical acclaim as the charismatic Johnny Truelove in the real-life crime drama Alpha Dog, and as skateboarding vanguard...
CPM vs Libre
Yesterday a titanic scandal emerged in the world of manga when manga publisher Libre posted on its website in English that CPM was publishing unauthorized English versions of their books:
Thank you very much for...
Dark Horse News Round-up: Atkins, MPD Psycho, Vess
A variety of PR that dropped into our mailbox from Dark Horse recently.First off, Jeremy Atkins has been promoted to Director of Publicity. Way to go, Jeremy!
They also announced that they will be releasing...
NARUTO continues run as America’s most popular comic
Viz sent out a press release this afternoon trumpeting Naruto's placement at #25 on the USA Today Best Seller list. Our memory may be a little shaky, but that strikes us as the highest...
