Publishing news and notes: One Piece is #1; Seven Miles a Second; Comic AG
• The Examiner reports that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece is about to set a record for the biggest first printing ever for a manga in Japan with 2.85 million copies of volume 56...
The Funnies Business
A few links making the rounds related to the health of various sectors of the comics business.
§ In Boston, while book industry sales are "in freefall", comics sales are strong enough to support...
Spielberg/Smith OLD BOY is no more
Those of you savvy enough to predict that a planned adaptation of the OLD BOY manga by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith was extremely unlikely to ever be made were RIGHT ON...
Coming soon: Imiri Sakabashira
According to Drawn & Quarterly's blog, the next gekiga artist we need to pay attention to is Imiri Sakabashira. He's also been published in Vice, so that should give a little idea of what...
Quote of the day on ASTRO BOY
Topless Robot reports that the lackluster new CGI Astro Boy movie tanked in Japan and sticks the knife in a little deeper:
PERHAPS YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN JAPAN'S MOST BELOVED CHARACTER AND STUCK HIM...
Just how dirty is DRAGONBALL?
Ever since the manga revolution hit American shores, comics industry observers have been writing for parents to catch on to the fact that their kids are reading stories about passionate gay love affairs and...
Giant Gigantor strikes terrorizing pose
O Japan, you so crazy. Now they are building life size models of the giant robots, Gizmodo reports. This Gigantor stands 60 feet tall and weighs 50 tons. Many more awe-inspiring pics in...
Huge news: Kodansha arrives!
The wait is over as Calvin Reid finally confirms Kodansha's entry into the US Market:After years of speculation about its plans, Kodansha, the largest publisher in Japan and a prolific manga licensor to U.S....
Meanwhile at NYAF…Attendance up 16 percent
We're hearing that the New York Anime Fest was a big hit. Lance Fensterman, who runs the show, reports:
Saturday was by far the most insanely busy day in the history of the New York...
Yaoi Press publisher indicted
Yamila Abraham, the publisher of Yaoi Press and a frequently quoted manga industry observer, has been indicted on seven counts of mail fraud, one count of misbranding a drug, one count of introducing goods...
Tonight: NYAF kickoff party
As the New York Anime Fest starts on Friday, tonight Del Rey and the NYAF sponsor a kickoff party. Free!
The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) and Del Rey Manga today announced a party taking...
RIP Yoshito Usui
Very sad news out of Japan as the body of manga-ka Yoshito Usui was found over the weekend. Usui, 51, had left the house on September 11th, telling his family he was...
