Japan launches worldwide assault via its own anime channel
The Japanese government is taking matters into its own hands by spending 15.5 billion yen ($14.7 million) to launch its own TV network with an eye to foreign distribution.
Here’s a peek at Miyazaki’s post-retirement samurai manga
As we recently reported, legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki has retired from filmmaking, but he's rumored to be returning to cartooning, working on a period...
Miyazaki working on a samurai manga, post retirement
Revered animator Hayao Miayazaki announced his retirement from moviemaking a few months ago; his final (we think) film The Wind Rises has just opened...
31 Days of Halloween: Akira Toriyama’s COWA! and seven other new digital series from...
Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by...
Webcomic Alert: Bani Garu, Lea Hernandez’s history of Gainax
BoingBoing has just introduced a new webcomic and it's a doozy: Bani Garu, a history of Gainax Studio, the legendary Japanese animation studio. There's...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – DC’s 3D Cover Woes
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Otakon news: Monster is back, show moves to Washington, more licenses
As we mentioned a post or so back, Otakon, one of the biggest anime/manga shows on he East Coast was held this weekend in...
Katsuhiro Otomo, Nobrow, and Japanese fashion house Comme des Garcons collaborate
As a comics fan, it's always nice to see the medium get wider recognition from other fields, although perhaps not as surprising in the...
Kickstarter Watch: Osamu Tezuka’s THE CRATER
For fans of the ever prolific "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka, we can thank our lucky stars for publishers like Vertical/Viz/Dark Horse for providing...
Here be Monsters: new Guillermo Del Toro manga TV adaptation in the works
Some seriously appetite whetting news via Deadline: HBO have teamed up with none other than scare master extraordinaire, Guillermo Del Toro, to adapt Naoki Urasawa's 18...
Convention Watch: Doj-Con at Dundee
In non-Saga related news, the number of conventions in the UK continues to rise with smaller events around the country becoming even bigger and...
