Comics on cells boffo in Japan
Newsweek looks at the popularity of comics delivered via cell phone:
Consumer demand for manga (the Japanese word for print comics) has surged in recent...
Links so good
§ Johanna has more commentary on ICv2's Most Powerful People in manga list, including spots 11-20:
# Robin Brenner, Young Adwult Library Services Association# Jim...
Ten Most Powerful people in manga
Yesterday, ICv2 published a list of the Top Ten Most Powerful people in Manga, gleaned from interviews with other industry figures. Here's the...
Manga moment
Jarred Pine has a good review of ODE TO KIRIHITO at Anime on DVD:
Ode to Kirihito might just be the most important, and at...
Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE...
Paul Gravett: Article – Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga
Paul Gravett on gekiga:
During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka's Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment....
Otaku invade Romania!
http://www.youtube.com/v/KosK42_cjeE
OTAKU GO WILD IN BUCHAREST THIS WEEKEND! MULTI-CULTI APOTHEOSIS! 40-year-old virgin gypsies! Carpathian cosplay! If it's half as crayzee as that video, we...
Manga Corner
⢠Yoshihiro Yonezawa, founder of Comiket, the world's largest comics convention, has died at age 53:
Yonezawa organized the first Comiket (Comic Market) in 1975...
Consortium picks up CPM and DramaQueen
Via MangaCast news that the book distributor Consortium has picked up two manga publishers: the temporarily defunct CPM and yaoi specialist DramaQueen. MangaCast has...
Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan....
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo...
