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:
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News bits: DrMaster, McSweeney’s, Avatar
• Katherine Dacey wonder what's happening at DrMaster, and the evidence is not encouraging:
Over at the ANN forums, site user Facesforce speculates that DrMaster...
Yen mangasizes The Clique
Another popular book series is being adapted into comics form, this time The Clique, by Lisi Harrison, a #1 New York Times bestselling series...
Manga-ka news: Usui missing; Nakazawa health issues
Alarming news out of Japan as Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui has been missing since Friday. and his wife and police are extremely concerned....
A.D.V. broken up, emerges as several new companies
The Biggest News Week Ever in Comics ® continues with news that ADV, a leading provider of anime films and, for a while, manga,...
