Manga: Aurora launches
Catrching up on the manga news of the week, a new publisher made their intentions known, Aurora, a subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora which...
Notable quotables
§ Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report: "Should we go to war with Iran? We only need 300 troops."
§ Joel Silver says Wonder Woman...
Here comes Speed Racer!
Emile Hirsch has been cast as Speed Racer in the upcoming movie:
The actor most recently earned critical acclaim as the charismatic Johnny Truelove in...
CPM vs Libre
Yesterday a titanic scandal emerged in the world of manga when manga publisher Libre posted on its website in English that CPM was publishing...
Dark Horse News Round-up: Atkins, MPD Psycho, Vess
A variety of PR that dropped into our mailbox from Dark Horse recently.First off, Jeremy Atkins has been promoted to Director of Publicity. Way...
NARUTO continues run as America’s most popular comic
Viz sent out a press release this afternoon trumpeting Naruto's placement at #25 on the USA Today Best Seller list. Our memory may be...
Rising Stars of Manga 7 winners
Tokyopop has announced the winners of the 7th Rising Stars of Manga competition. This is our AMERICAN IDOL, people! Give them a hand!
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Is this our future?
ComiPress looks at an article that tracks the decline of the Japanese manga market:
The report says that tankoubon sales have been decreasing for the...
Gay Italians like yaoi?
We've still never come across a completely satisfying explanation for the exploding popularity of yaoi/boy's love manga, but here in the US as in...
Something else to do with octopus
Mongrel Magazine, and Irish culture mag investigates tentacle hentai, with alook at manga-ka Toshio Maeda,
Our second contender for the octoperv crown is Toshio...
Interesting rumor
We've received a few whispers of late that since Kurt Hassler left his position as graphic novel buyer at Borders, his replacement is not...
Quick links: Ponent Mon, Kominsky Crumb, Miller
§ Brigid talks to Stephen Robson of boutique manga publisher Fanfare/Ponent Mon:
Having been frustrated myself by hearing so many great things about books I...
