“Disturbed comic fan” stabbing rampage
A crazed truck driver went on a gruesome rampage Sunday in Tokyo's nerd-friendly Akihabara district, killing seven people. The horrible incident has received international...
Chris Ware winner VPRO Grand Prix 2008
Chris Ware beat out Dominique Goblet and Naoki Urasawa for this year's VPRO Grand Prix, an award handed out each year at the Stripdagen...
Rumours updates: Kodansha, Tpop, Wizard, etc etc.
§ Japanator weighs in on the Kodansha mystery with a pretty unequivocable Rumor squashed: Kodansha not making a move into the US market, based...
MoCCA: Top Shelf
Chris Staros tells us who will be at the Top Shelf booth:
Alex Robinson -- with the debut of his (amazing) new graphic novel: TOO...
Tokyopop letter to creators
Publisher Mike Kiley sent out this letter to Tokyopop creators yesterday:
Hey, everybody (all TOKYOPOP Manga Creators) –
As many of you have no doubt...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales April 2008
By Paul O'Brien
The event season is upon us again, and Marvel hit the ground running with the first issue of SECRET INVASION. There...
MoCCA: Harvest Is When I Need You The Most
Okay here's one of those oddball pop culture anthologies: Harvest Is When I Need You The Most:
Harvest Is When I Need You the Most,...
News Bytes: Valiant, Wash Tubbs
§ ICv2 reports the thrilling news that Fantagraphics will begin reprints of Prince Valiant and Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, two more incredible comic...
Yet more on Tokyopop
OEL creators are beginning to talk about what's happening. Rikki Simons:
I haven't heard otherwise, so I am assuming that ShutterBox is not part of...
More on Kingdom Comics
The keepers of the enw Kingdom Comics line at Disney, Ahmet Zappa and Christian Beranek, showed up at WW Philly and revealed more...
