Top News
Cast of DOCTOR WHO chat up season 14’s new adventures!
The cast of DOCTOR WHO chat up season 14's brand new adventures, details on the fifteenth Doctor, and much more!
Top Comics to Buy for May 9, 2024: A week with variety
Featuring Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Boy Wonder, Night People, and more!
Business News
AI manga translation start-up Orange Gets $20 million in funding
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Orange Inc., developers of a Japanese-to-English language manga localization...
Exclusive: Bongiovanni & Verhoeven team up for TELEPORTATION AND OTHER LUXURIES
Writer Archie Bongiovanni and artist Mary Verhoeven team up for YA sci-fi graphic novel Teleportation and Other Luxuries from Maverick.
Who reads Miracleman? and other thoughts on graphic novel publishing
After 30 years, Neil Gaiman's Miracleman is finally getting a collected edition, but the muted reaction says a lot about the current graphic novel market.
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Business News
AI manga translation start-up Orange Gets $20 million in funding
Orange Inc., developers of a Japanese-to-English language manga localization tool, announced earlier this week that it secured 2.92 billion yen (approximately $19.4 million USD,...
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DC
I can’t believe it’s not Brandon!
Big, BIG news out of the Iowa State Fair this year. After 45 years, world famous butter carver Norma "Duffy " Lyon (pictured)...
Late Night
Greatest photo ever for this morning
A Flickr set of a Lego recreation of The Headbutt heard round the world.
More in link including a heart-breaking depiction of Zidane's long,...
General
Browser Issues
We know we are having some problems with images butting into the sidebar, and other loading problems here. If the Beat is loking wacky...
Conventions
It’s quiet out there…too quiet
The news has slowed to a dull crawl out there. Everyone is in full on pre-convention mode, saving all the big announcements for San...
Manga
Machiko Hasegawa, grandmother of manga
While we were researching Tagawa, we came across another early Japanese cartoonist we were unaware of, Machiko Hasegawa (1920-1992), who was one of Tagawa's...
Indies
Suiho Tagawa, grandfather of manga
Buenaventura Press sent out a huge, 58-page preview of KRAMERS ERGOT #6 the other day, and the new edition of this groundbreaking anthology looks...
Business News
AI manga translation start-up Orange Gets $20 million in funding
Orange Inc., developers of a Japanese-to-English language manga localization...
Sales Charts: Top Ten Most Popular Comics on GlobalComix the week of May 5, 2024
Come get your sales chart! There's a new #1 atop the Top Ten Most Popular comics on @GlobalComix this week.
Super Like or Super Dud? Inside Webtoon’s new program
WEBTOON rolled out its Super Likes program for tipping creators this week but there were many complaints.
Marvel’s Dan Buckley opens up about the state of comics
Marvel president Dan Buckley sits down for his first interview in a long time with ICv2's Milton Griepp and addresses many issues
What Ever Happened to…Frank Miller Presents
Frank MIller Presents has been taken under the wing of Abrams, with deluxe editions of Ronin Rising and Pandora slated for the fall
Vault Comics joins GlobalComix with added vertical scrolling format
Vault Comics has brought its catalog to the GlobalComix platform....and six of its most popular titles to the mobile vertical scrolling format.
Reviews
Anime Review: T・P BON is (mostly) a blast from the past
Adapted from a series by Doraemon creator Fujiko F. Fujio, T・P Bon features time travel, historical trivia and child murder.
Top Comics to Buy for May 9, 2024: A week with variety
Featuring Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Boy Wonder, Night People, and more!
Classic Comic Compendium: JONNY DOUBLE
This noir take on Jonny Double by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso is one of Vertigo's best character re-imaginings.
Graphic Novel Review: TOTAL SUPLEX OF THE HEART finds wrestling is great at explaining heartbreak
Barbed wire has nothing on romance in the squared circle.
Movie Review: CIVIL WAR Is Clickbait Cinema Masquerading As Political Warfare
A movie with war and journalism with nothing to say?
Review: PLAIN JANE AND THE MERMAID is a fast-paced fairytale with a complex finale
Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid explores independence and insecurity in a complex fairytale with a particularly chewy ending.
The Marvel Rundown: Horror takes hold in our BLOOD HUNT/GET FURY Roundtable
The rundown crew convenes for a roundtable discussion of Blood Hunt #1 and Get Fury #1, two gruesome new releases from the House of Ideas!
Wednesday Comics Reviews: SPACE GHOST #1 soars high
Space Ghost #1 is this week's main feature in the Wednesday Comics Reviews column, which also features Mezo, Toxic Summer, and more!
DC Round-Up: The HARLEY QUINN 2024 ANNUAL is hilarious high-seas hijinks
Erica Henderson and Harley Quinn are a match made in humor heaven.
Entertainment
Xavier’s merry mutants don new costumes in X-MEN ’97 penultimate episode clip
"What'd you expect, black leather?"
Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood manga gets an anime adaptation
The long-running manga by Yura Urushihara will get an anime adaptation set to premiere in 2025
Anime Review: T・P BON is (mostly) a blast from the past
Adapted from a series by Doraemon creator Fujiko F. Fujio, T・P Bon features time travel, historical trivia and child murder.
Cast of DOCTOR WHO chat up season 14’s new adventures!
The cast of DOCTOR WHO chat up season 14's brand new adventures, details on the fifteenth Doctor, and much more!
Everyone’s favorite Gungan returns as Darth Jar Jar in new LEGO STAR WARS animated special
"Mesa gonna hurt yousa!"
David Corenswet dons the red trunks and boots in first official image from SUPERMAN film
Will you believe a man can fly?
Shut In Theater: Weekend Reading 207
Weekend Reading 207 feat. The Last Animal, FCBD TMNT, The Master & Margarita, Spy x Family, My Androgynous Boyfriend and MORE!
Manga and Anime News
AI manga translation start-up Orange Gets $20 million in funding
Orange Inc., developers of a Japanese-to-English language manga localization...
Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood manga gets an anime adaptation
The long-running manga by Yura Urushihara will get an anime adaptation set to premiere in 2025
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: Boys’ love cyberpunk
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This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: a new rotation of writers covering SOLID STATE, HERE U ARE and THE BLACK CAT & THE VAMPIRE.
Yen Press announce over a dozen titles with an October release
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Yen Press surprises manga and light novel readers with over a dozen titles, including The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All.
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: God warriors, whales and legends
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In the first installment of Beat's Bizarre Adventure, three Comics Beat writers tackle some of their favorite manga and Webtoons.
J-Novel Club announces major physical distribution arrangement
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J-Novel Club announces a major new distribution with Yen Press & Hachette Book Group that will help see to their expansion globally.
