Morning Manga updates
§ Correction 8/13: These titles were announced as cancelled by a Tokyopop distributor, but ToykoPop has not announced them as cancelled as of yet:
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Dean Haspiel’s ‘Street Code’
Pop Candy previews Dean Haspiel's new Zuda Comics' Street Code
{Thanks to Austin for the link.}
Wal-Mart bans Mexican comic
Wal-Mart has pulled copies of a Spanish-language comic starring Mexican comics mainstay Memin Pinguin CNN reports on charges the character is racist:
For more than...
More on thinking person’s manga
Much soul-seacrhing in the blogosphere today over whether manga is doomed to be a medium of kiddies and wanna-be ninjas. Much of it was...
Veitch and Pekar — together again for the first time
New York's VULTURE mag spotlights a new webcomic by Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch. Was any pairing more natural?
EXTERMINATORS brings it on home
This story on Simon Oliver and Tony Moore's Vertigo series EXTERMINATORS getting picked up by Showtime for possible TV development, by DEXTER's Sara Colleton,...
More on Tpop: WEHT Chuck Austen?
Well, speak of the devil. Benjamin Ong Pang Kean catches up with Chuck Austen and his erotic baseball manga BOYS OF SUMMER. Turns...
Brandon Graham’s King City Vol. 2
Apparently, the rumor going around a few weeks ago that Tokyopop was allowing some of its creators to get the rights back to their...
The history of Image and more
While we were out of it, we should have just posted this single link which should have kept everyone busy for a whole day:...
Bottomless Belly Button Trailer
http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=55430
Dash Shaw has created an animated trailer for Bottomless Belly Button his epic tome that has every one talking. View it above...
And you can look it up…
Thanks to all who sent me the link for the word "Fanboy" entering the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with other useful terms like "edamame" and...
HELLBOY is everywhere
Speaking of Mike Mignola, he very kindly forwarded us some pictures of HELLBOY II promos around New York. It is kind of odd to...
