The Manga Moment
Yesterday we trekked out to the Brooklyn Art Museum to see the Takashi Murakami show on its very last day, and so did a...
Barack Obama in the media
While Oh! Great adds him to the pages of Air Gear,
Barry Blitt's New Yorker cover has other ideas.
To us, this is a...
Youka Nitta swipes
Frank Santoro was right! Popular boys love manga-ka Youka Nitta has admitted to lots and lots of tracing.
In her webpage notice, Nitta directly...
Manga moments
§ ICv2 finds out more about Viz's original manga initiative:
Are you looking for manga-style properties?If by "manga" you mean what is generally considered manga...
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:
Tokyo...
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...
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...
Manga for…grown-ups?
While the online manga world continues to fret about whether manga will ever grow up, Chris Butcher spots some evidence in TIME Magazine:
Meanwhile, Time...
Meanwhile, the future of manga
Kai-Ming Cha observes:
Guys, I’m at AX and I’m gonna say it: the future looks bleak.I’m not sure that manga readers here are really manga...
Anime Expo reports
The big news this weekend was the Anime Expo in LA, with over 40,000 manga, anime and cosplay fans lining up to hear news...
Kodansha rumbles
Lets and lots of feedback on the Kodansha bombshell out there. Dallas Middaugh confirms its not curtains for Del Rey manga:
Well, it’s business as...
Kodansha in the US confirmed
ICv@ reports a Japanese report that confirms all those rumors about Kodansha entering the US market.
Japan’s highly respected Nikkei financial news service is reporting...
