WORLD COSPLAY SUMMIT
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Apparently, a pageant with representatives from nine countries was just held in Nagoya, Japan. Entrants had already won pageants in their home countries after a grueling series of...
Rivkah: Paneling, Pacing, and Layout in Comics and Manga
While we're waiting for MAKING COMICS, Rivkah (STEADY BEAT) has a couple of pieces (one more is planned) looking at timing, pacing, balloon placement, panel flow and many of the other intricacies of comics....
Time on MANGA Business
Time looks at MANGA in a story that is obviously taken from the BUSINESS section:
While comics feature 50-year-old superheroes who appeal to boys, manga in the U.S. is often created by women for women...
OTAKON: New Yaoi company
More boy-on-boy action and this time it's even HOTTER Anime News Network reports.
At Digital Manga's Otakon panel today it was announced that 801 Media Inc. would make its official debut at Yaoi Con...
Otakon news
Anime News Network has DMP panel news
Several titles were announced for a Spring 2007 release, including Kurashina Senseiâs Passino, La Vie en Rose, Waru, Wagamama Kitchen, Fake Fur, and Paradise on the Hill....
Link: Proposed J-Pop style book
Pata at Irresponsible Picture begs for guidance, and we heartily concur:
And so I ask: Where is my JP Stylebook?Writing on Japanese entertainment in English is, to be nice about it, a linguistic minefield. We're...
The internet manga story you never thought you would see!
Tokyopop launched their new manga lifestyle site during San Diego, and we haven't really had a chance to explore it too much, but it seems to have a decent amount of content. We were...
Tokyopop editorial shuffle
We're hearing reports on a slight editorial shake-up at Tokyopop; some editors' titles have changed, and editor Rob Valois has left. The last part has been mentioned at at least one Tpop creator site....
Classic manga emerges
We certainly hope you read yesterday's interview with Yoshihiro Tatsumi by Kai-Ming Cha in PW Comics Week. We found it pretty damned fascinating as a look at the history of the Japanese comics industry,...
Kokmen to Del Rey
After getting downsized in a recent CPM reshuffle, marketing maven Ali Kokmen has found a new home at Del Rey Manga according to their newsletter:
We are please to welcome ALI KOKMEN, our new Manga...
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Video Blog #3: Geof Darrow
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SDCC: Manga info
We've been a little slack posting manga info but luckily Mangacast has an awesome round-up of information. You should deifnitley go there for panel schedules and so on. We're reprinting their list of manga...
