IRON WOK JAN: SUMMIT BATTLE
ComiPress reports that IRON WOK JAN creator Shinji Saijyo has a new Iron Wok Jan serial beginning!
A new Iron Wok Jan manga from Shinji Saijyo will begin serialization in Weekly Shonen Champion No.50,...
Wachowskis go Speed Racer go!
A Live action SPEED RACER movie directed by the Wachowski Brothers is ON:
Producer Joel Silver has stated that the long talked about Speed Racer movie has been given the green light and is expected...
Linkage 10/30
§ Over at the The Forbidden Planet International Blog the artist known as Ilya is intervieed asbout a new brit anthology with the promising title The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga,a 500 (!)...
Maid in cafe molested
"Maid cafes" have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly lolicon costumes wait on male geek customers hand and foot,...
Around the world of comics
§ Jewish Week examines how Batman embodies Jewish values as explained by Rabbi Cary Freidman:
Friedman argues that Batman instills in his audience some of Judaismâs most important moral values, using supporting examples from Torah,...
Comics on cells boffo in Japan
Newsweek looks at the popularity of comics delivered via cell phone:
Consumer demand for manga (the Japanese word for print comics) has surged in recent months, thanks to high-speed 3G phones, the proliferation of fixed-rate...
Links so good
§ Johanna has more commentary on ICv2's Most Powerful People in manga list, including spots 11-20:
# Robin Brenner, Young Adwult Library Services Association# Jim Chadwick, Editor in Chief, CMX# Liza Coppola, Senior VP of...
Ten Most Powerful people in manga
Yesterday, ICv2 published a list of the Top Ten Most Powerful people in Manga, gleaned from interviews with other industry figures. Here's the power list:
1. Kurt Hassler, Graphic Novel Buyer, Borders Group
2. Hidemi...
Manga moment
Jarred Pine has a good review of ODE TO KIRIHITO at Anime on DVD:
Ode to Kirihito might just be the most important, and at times the strangest, manga that I’ll not just read this...
Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE FARTHEST SHORE. The story, written by Charles Solomon, covers the...
Paul Gravett: Article – Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga
Paul Gravett on gekiga:
During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka's Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment. Manga books were pricey, so people took to hiring them...
Otaku invade Romania!
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OTAKU GO WILD IN BUCHAREST THIS WEEKEND! MULTI-CULTI APOTHEOSIS! 40-year-old virgin gypsies! Carpathian cosplay! If it's half as crayzee as that video, we are so bummed to be missing out.
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