Manga

One of the hottest titles in comics the last few years has been Sui Ishida's TOKYO GHOUL, a smash hit manga about an alternate reality where human-flesh eating ghouls are at war with humans, and one...

Mjau! is a Swedish mange about two kittens written and drawn by Natalia Batiste.    There's a Kickstarter going on to fund the English language edition of it.  It's kid-friendly and we've got some preview...

Still rolling out of Anime Expo, Seven Seas has annoucne 10 new titles: Nameless Asterism (Nanashi no Asterism) by Kina Kobayashi A yuri and LGBT+ romantic drama. Soul Liquid Chambers by Nozomu Tamaki Gothic cyberpunk from the creator...

With Anime Expo wrapping up we have some manga publishing announcements, including Viz's new licenses for early 2018. New books include FIRE PUNCH, a dystopian thriller for the VIZ Signature imprint; ,  KENKA BANCHO OTOME:...

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the highlights of the North American comics year, but there is always a little anxiety about border crossings. These anxieties predate the current US government administration, although...

https://soundcloud.com/heidi-macdonald-3/four-women-in-a-hotel-room-at-tacf-episode-2   Welcome back to episode 2 of Four Women in a Hotel Rooms At TCAF starring myself, Erica Friedman, Deb Aoki and Brigid Alverson. After some confusion over our differing bedtimes, we got up bright...

Welcome to Four Women in a Hotel Room, what may or may not be a daily podcast report from TCAF. I'm Heidi MacDonald and I'm sharing a room with journalists Brigid Alverson and Deb...

I guess  I missed this when it was first announced, but Marvel is putting out an English version of Avengers: Zombies Assemble by Yusaku Komiyama (Ixion Saga). It's a manga  version of Earth's Mightiest Heroes as zombies,...

Berserk, the best selling manga by Kentaro Miura, is big in Japan and since it launched from Dark Horse in 2003 it’s been a solid hit here with more than 1.2 million copies sold....

Call it yaoi – or boys love or shonen ai - a lot of people are still puzzled by this genre of manga. Featuring  gay relationship stories that go from chaste to x-rated, the stories...

Yūsei Matsui's Assassination classroom (published by Viz here in the US) has an outrageous premise even for a manga: an immensely powerful alien who has a smiley face head and an octopus body has...

The Legend of Zelda franchise has spread its lore far and wide since it’s 1986 Japanese release. Aside from being mistakenly called “Zelda” since the game’s 1987 American release, the protagonist Link is...