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...
Rugg and Maruca on Brother Voodoo
Proof there is a god of Comics as the Street Angel team reunites for a Brother Voodoo comic. While the LJ entry teases a...
Hartzell wins Maisie Kukoc
The Comics Reporter reports that Andy Hartzell won the Maisie Kukoc Award for mini-comics at this weekend Stumptown Comics Fest.
Adrian Tomine talks and talks
In advance of the release of SHORTCOMINGS this week (release party Wednesday in Brooklyn) Adrian Tomine has several new interviews online, including this one...
Rotterdam joins DC
Quite a big hire at DC, as Steve Rotterdam is appointed Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing. Perusing the press release, Rotterdam comes more...
Sad day: Biel backs out of Wonder Woman
Sad news for Beat readers over the weekend:EW.com reported that Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman is a no-go:
EW has learned that actress Jessica Biel...
JLA movie details
Patrick over at UGO has various script leaks on the suddenly fast-tracked JLA movie:
Ever since the JLA movie was announced people have been wondering...
Naruto Report Card
ICv2 wraps up the first month of NARUTO's assault on the graphic novel sales charts:
On the eve of the release of the second three-pronged...
