Cameron is back; rejects manga
Elusive director James Cameron has finally announced his next movie project -- it's called AVATAR, and it means he WON'T be makes Battle Angel Alita for a while, anyway. In EW he explains they...
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo picked up
We just wanted to run this press release because saying Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is fun! We saw this anime once and it was definitely off the wall. Perhaps a check of the manga is called...
Links of many kinds
Manga Blog interviews KURT HASSLER!
MB: How did your personal tastes affect your choices? KH: I like everything. The way I’m characterized online, I’m the manga guy, but I love comics in general. It’s funny,...
Links and thoughts
§ Rafael Kayanan thinks the Silver Surfger would look better without eyeballs.
§ Jimm Rugg talks about PLAIN JANES, the lead title in the MINX line:
"Obviously, I found the story captivating or I wouldn't...
The “Occasional Superheroine” of Japan?
ComiPress translates a Japanese article called The Reason I Quit as a Manga Editor:
wondered if I should ask him to redraw the manga, since that kind of work couldn't be published in my...
Year’s Best Manga mystery
Over at our other day job, this week's PW Comics Week presented a Critic's Poll of the year's best graphic novels. With over 50 titles picked by individual critics, it shows that there was...
Breaking news: young American boy draws manga
American manga-ka are being crown in Fremont, CA:
Chris Cogdill took coloring very seriously.
But by age 3, he lost interest in cute coloring books and crayons.
Instead, he created and drew his own comic book character.
Now...
Tezuka’s APOLLO’S SONG from Vertical
YAY! YAY! YAY!
New York-based independent publisher Vertical, Inc. has announced it is publishing its third Osamu Tezuka property in June 2007. Apolloâs Song will be published as a single-volume graphic novel at approximately...
FRUITS BASKET hits 2 million
Tokyopop writes to remind us that Natsuki Takaya's FRUITS BASKET is one of the best selling comics in the world, although just where the 2 million figure comces from isn't quite clear.
TOKYOPOP, the...
American lesbian manga = ALM
AfterEllen.com profiles an American yuri artist, Megan Gedris and her comic YU+ME. The article doesn't actually use the term yuri, so instead of being "girl's love' maybe it is manga-styled lesbian themed comics:
Lesbian-themed comics...
MORE Minx Links
Maybe you are sick of this, but the Minx announcement seems to have capped off a year in which comics' gender issues took center stage in very unexpected ways. One of the interesting side...
The Australian on Tezuka
There's a huge Tezuka exhibit going on in Australia, and we couldn't be more jealous. Luckily it means lot of press coverage of Tezuka like this one. :
Tezuka, who died in 1989, devised many...
