Yaoi magazine launches
Okay, will someone PLEASE publish COMIC FOUNDRY?
Iris Print, publisher of the Lambda Literary Award finalist novel "A Strong and Sudden Thaw", announced today its...
Japanese Government to recognize foreign manga!
Fox News and other outlets report that the Japanese government is planing to give away a sort of Novel Prize to foriegn (non-Japanese) comics...
More Sana Takeda Art
Japanese artist Sana Takeda has gotten perhaps her biggest mainsteam exposure via her cover for HEROES FRO HIRE #13, but she has a website...
Law cracks down on Japanese manga pirates!
In a story that will send an icy finger of dread down the spines of the majority of today's comics readers, three geeks were...
Koontz and Queenie Chan team for Del Rey
Note, this is an OGN not an adaptation.
Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that...
DEATH NOTE banned in Beijing
This story from Reuters is a bit brief but it seems a government crackdown on crime comics has swept up such things as DEATH...
Viz sponsors manga lounge at Tezuka exhibit
Man, we've got to make a San Fran trip to see this somehow. It's hard to believe would be Tezuka's 80th birthday if he...
Let’s Play ‘Panty Explosion’
Did you ever want to be a Japanese schoolgirl? Well now you can in a new RPG called Panty Explosion!
In Atarashi Games' Panty Explosion...
Anime on Sci-Fi Channel
ComicMix reports on a Broadcasting & Cable magazine report that the Sci-Fi Channel will soon begin airing a 2 hour anime block on Mondays,...
Manga News: WARRIORS and YOTSUBA&!
§ Brigid notes what might be the first appearance of an OEL manga on the USA Today Bestseller list:
The top manga on this week’s...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching...
