NYCC: Del Rey
In addition to showing off their manga line, Del Rey is bringing a bunch of prose authors to the show including,
* China Miéville (Un Lun Dun)
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RIP Emiko Sugi
Manga-ka Emiko Sugi died on the 10th of stomach cancer at age 47. Although little of her work was translated into English, she was the auther of several popular shojo manga Dirk digs up...
Valentines Links
Jen Tong's utterly charming ACT-I-VATE Romance.
Boomerang Celebrates Valentine's With Love-Themed Cartoons
Rivkah points out STEADY BEAT cards.
Reed announces New York Anime Festival
From the folks who brought you New York Comic-Con The New York Anime Festival:
Announcing the New York Anime Festival!December 7-9, 2007Jacob Javits Center, New York CityThe organizers of New York Comic Con are...
NYCC: Vertical
Vertical's inimitable Anne Ishii posts their New York Comic-con plans in the form of a sort of Socratic dialog:
Anne: We’ve been busy.
Dirty Sanchez: Busy doing what?
Anne: Busy getting ready for the NEW YORK COMIC-CON!
Dirty...
DC’s Ame-Comi Super Heroines
Toy Fair is still raging -- and it's raging on without us and our bronchitis -- but the manga-stylee line of DC heroines known as Ame-Comi Super Heroines has caused some...comment via Johanna:
Obviously,...
Naruto: bigger than Spider-Man?
Brigid points us to The Halifax Slasher, a blog by someone who works in a comics shop, and he or she has an insightful analysis of why manga is winning:
The other day a customer...
NYCC: Go! Comi!
Manga publisher Go! Comi! blogged its NYCC schedule as follows:
NYCC PANELS
posted 2007-02-01 14:15:57
Mark your calendars for the following Go! Comi events at New York Comic-Con:
Friday, Feb. 23
2:30-3:30 PM
Capturing Female Readers: The Fastest Growing Audience...
Toon news round-up
Well, it looks like our question has been answered.
We watched the debuts of the two new live action series last night, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job and Saul of the Mole Men....
What are they reading in Singapore?
David Welsh has a list of the manga best sellers in Singapore:
The Straits Times apparently ran a big package of articles in Sunday’s edition, and one of the sidebars listed the top five shônen...
American Anime Awars finalists named
The very first American Anime Awards will be given out during NYCC, and the finalists have been announced:
The New York Comic Con today announced finalists for the inaugural American Anime Awards. Over...
Erin Hunter at Tokyopop
Tokyopop and Harper Collins are teaming on a new manga series based on the bestselling fantasy books by Erin Hunter: KITTY!!!
TOKYOPOP, the leader of the Global Manga Revolution and HarperCollins Publishers, one of the...
