NYAF 2008 roundup
While we were in Baltimore, the Manga Set were at New York Anime Fest. Reports are everywhere on the web. Brigid, predictably, has a fine roundup. Yen Press announced several new titles, and...
New York Anime Fest THIS WEEKEND
The New York Anime Fest kicks off today, and we haven't given this NEARLY the kind of buildup we should have, but it should be a lot of fun. The move from December has...
More old manga
Shaenon Garrity continues to reprint manga from the 40s. This stuff is pre-Tezuka, and it shows, but it has much charm. This week:
Matt Thorn translates the title as The Delightful Steel Mill, which...
Toonami shuts down
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCAX4cgszCU&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344]..and God Len at Japanator has the obit...
Cartoon Network has sadly broke the news that as of today, the 20th of September, Toonami will end all scheduled programming, and die. This, in actuality,...
What’s threatening us now
While some think that the Potty Mouth Batman variant may be the trigger to a new comics witch hunt, it's more likely that THIS kind of thing will be more alarming if someone...
Tea with Baby, The Stars Shine Bright
We're not entirely sure what that means, either, but the New York Anime Festival is coming up FAST -- at the end of the month Sept. 26-28 at the Javits Center. Lots of news...
Morimoto at NYAF!
Okay, here is one celebrity we can get excited about -- or more accurately, his king yellowtail stew.
The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced Chef Masaharu Morimoto -- star of Iron...
Freak-out of the day: Anime eyes
As we've noted here many times, the anime/manga movement is best seen as having its greatest cultural impact as a fashion/lifestyle trend (a la punk and goth), not as a literary movement, per se....
PLUTO! URASAWA!
More here.
BTW, Viz has broken the comics industry wide open, debuting their incredible YELLOW BAGS at this show. Demand is high.
SD08: Fanfare/Ponent Mon — c04
Steven Robson or Fanfare/Ponent Mon, publisher of some of the best manga on earth, writes that he'll have sneak peeks of Eisner nominee Jiro Taniguchi's THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING GIRL and some announcements:
I...
The Manga Moment
Yesterday we trekked out to the Brooklyn Art Museum to see the Takashi Murakami show on its very last day, and so did a lot of other people. Old people, young people, white people,...
Barack Obama in the media
While Oh! Great adds him to the pages of Air Gear,
Barry Blitt's New Yorker cover has other ideas.
To us, this is a bit like the old Ed Anger column in the Weekly...
