Tag: Manga
David Brothers: “I’ve got to keep banging the drum for more” [Interview]
David Brothers is one of the most accomplished writers-about-comics around, a blogger who recently moved into the industry himself as a member of the...
Webcomic Alert — Oldboy: The Devil’s Eyes
Although a perfectly good manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi exists—and was published in English by Dark Horse—the makers of the upcoming OLDBOY...
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...
NYCC ’13 The Beat Podcasts! More To Come NYCC Interviews 1
Straight from the convention booth of Publishers Weekly at New York Comic Con, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and...
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...
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...
Nice art alert: PEPITA: Takehiko Inoue meets Gaudí
Okay here is a thing which is cool: PEPITA: TAKEHIKO INOUE MEETS GAUDÍ a hardcover travel diary comprised of prose, sketches, and artwork by Takehiko Inoue, creator of SLAM DUNK, REAL, and VAGABOND. Inoue, whose sensitive pen and ink drawings are gorgeous by any standard, went to Barcelona and became entranced, as so many do, by the imagination and beauty of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí which lies over the landscape of Barcelona like a surreal lace scarf. culminating in the still unfinished Sagrada Familia, the famed twisty, turny cathedral that unites the gothic and the modern in one stunning building.
