CONTRABAND on Eyemelt
SLG adds another comic to it's downloadable EYEMELT site, Thomas Behe and Phil Elliott's CONTRABAND. Each issue is downloadable for 89¢ -- a print...
Downloading update: Viz, Harlequin
A couple of notes on downloadable content. ICv2 had an interesting chat with Viz's Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Dan Marks,...
WATCHMEN tidbit
Press tour for THE HEARTBREAK KID remake (why God???????) provides opportunity for Silk Spectre Malin Ackerman to discuss role:
UGO: Malin, can you talk about...
Crumb at Supreme
Is the one thing missing from your fall wardrobe a t-shirt of zip-front oodie bedecked with Robert Crumb art? Look no further! Supreme has...
To Do tonight, Brooklyn: SHORTCOMINGS release party
Wednesday, October 3rd @ 7PM
ADRIAN TOMINE - SHORTCOMINGS *Release Party
BookCourt- 163 Court Street Brooklyn
Details here.
PS: More Adrian Tomine interviewing at Gothamist:
Having lived and worked...
Kids WB is no more
Various news sources are reporting that The CW is ending the Kids WB! Saturday morning programming block, instead licensing it out to 4Kids, which...
A little more REPTILIA
Manga for the rest of us: IDW previews Umezu's REPTILIA. Much more in link.
Manga conventions
One more manga post! Over at Sporadic Sequentialcultural anthropologist and Japan-based manga expert Matt Thorn explains why manga is so exacting:
Sure, there's...
Manganovel and Toshiba pact for scanlations
Via PR, news of a new legit venture to allow fans to create their own scanlations:
Manganovel Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they...
Drawn & Quarterly is opening a store!
Details via the D&Q blog -- apparently it is the kind of place where a golden afternoon light always shines, as earnest folk in...
Umezu at IDW
Freaky manga-ka legend Kazuo Umezu is getting another shot in America via REPTILIA, due this October from IDW, which is making its first foray...
Viz and Naruto top charts
Viz sends out PR trumpeting the success of their "Naruto Nation" event -- NARUTO is 1, 2 and 3 on the Bookscan GN schart:
VIZ...
