A little more REPTILIA
Manga for the rest of us: IDW previews Umezu's REPTILIA. Much more in link.
Manga conventions
One more manga post! Over at Sporadic Sequentialcultural anthropologist and Japan-based manga expert Matt Thorn explains why manga is so exacting:
Sure, there's a wide variety of subject matter in manga, and more...
GOTH movie in the works
And speaking of Manga, Fox Atomic has a movie based on the Japanese novel and manga GOTH in the works. JT Petty is slated to write the script. We like Anime News Network's description...
World Cosplay teams with NY Anime Fest
Forget about the US Open, the World Series, or the Westminster Dog Show -- New York is about to get a new competition which will knock the world on its Goth-Lolita clad ass: The...
Legal notes 2: The Death Note murders?
Anime News Network picks up a story from a Belgian tabloid reporting that two identical messages linked to Death Note were left near severed body parts discovered Friday in the forest of Belgium's...
Manganovel and Toshiba pact for scanlations
Via PR, news of a new legit venture to allow fans to create their own scanlations:
Manganovel Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they will bring the universe of Japanese manga to the global...
Umezu at IDW
Freaky manga-ka legend Kazuo Umezu is getting another shot in America via REPTILIA, due this October from IDW, which is making its first foray into manga publishing:
Just in time for Halloween, IDW Publishing brings...
Viz and Naruto top charts
Viz sends out PR trumpeting the success of their "Naruto Nation" event -- NARUTO is 1, 2 and 3 on the Bookscan GN schart:
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most...
Japan news and notes
NPR's On The Media looks at the cultural impact of manga:
Manga is Japan’s ubiquitous art form; a kind of comic book equivalent that illustrates everything from tax preparation to hard-core fantasy. But it is...
Naruto Report Card
ICv2 wraps up the first month of NARUTO's assault on the graphic novel sales charts:
On the eve of the release of the second three-pronged barrage of Naruto volumes it appears that the first wave...
DEATH NOTE: The Official PR
PR:
VIZ Media, one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has licensed the Shonen Jump DEATH NOTE anime series to Adult Swim for domestic broadcast beginning Saturday, October...
New York Anime fest announces web guests
PR:
The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced prominent online artists and performers Chris Hazelton, GeekNights, Juno Blair B, Lindsey Henninger, and Uncle Yo will be featured at its inaugural event, December 7-9, 2007...
