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Naoki Urasawa is probably the greatest living genre cartoonist. Sorry ya'll but it's all true. Combining dense, suspenseful plotlines with thrilling, heart stopping artwork that never sacrifices character, he's just the master. He's even won an Eisner Award.Works in English, all published by Viz include MONSTER, PLUTO and 20th CENTURY BOYS. And now, MASTER KEATON, an early (pre-Monster) work from 1988 about a heroic insurance investigator who goes around using his archaeological skills to solve mysteries. SOLD. The series was co-written by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki.

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald. In this week’s podcast the More to Come Crew -...

It's a new year, and what better time to take a look back at what happened in 2013? Regular readers of The Beat know me as the comic BOOK guy.  I'm a bookseller, a librarian,...

Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by DragonBall Z's Toriyama about a cute half vampire were-koala. That...

Straight from the convention booth of Publishers Weekly at New York Comic Con, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald. In part one of...

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald. In this week's episode, Heidi and the rest of the...

Some seriously appetite whetting news via Deadline: HBO have teamed up with none other than scare master extraordinaire, Guillermo Del Toro, to adapt Naoki Urasawa's 18 volume manga series, Monster. Urasawa's story follows a brilliant young doctor,...

Celebrating one year of publishing, Viz's SuBLime yaoi imprint has announced a slew of new titles: six new titles and 11 debuting volumes. With manga still in the doldrum in the US, it's good to see one imprint hanging in there—the appeal of boy's love manga is still going strong. And who can resist a book called PRETTY MEN FIGHTING DIRTY?

When the New York Times first started their "graphic books" bestseller lists, they included one for manga.  Why manga?  Why not one for superheroes, or comic strips, or any other segment of graphic novels? Most...

The long-running Uglydoll franchise, which was one of pioneers of the whole "designer toy" category, are finally getting their own graphic novel line, which will be published by Viz as part of the Viz Kids imprint. The line will launch in Summer 2013

___________________________________________________________________________ A few months ago, I brainstormed about how Halloween mini-comics being offered by Diamond could be used in a variety of ways to promote comics and have some fun!   (Read that again... there are...

It's PR but it includes FREE ICE CREAM. And LUFFY. We glimpsed the brand new Viz booth last night and it looks spectacular.