Tag: Manga

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 an intro to the strip here and here's the...

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 discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald. In part one of...

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 Baltimore, with more than 30,000 fans in attendance. One bit...

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 past few years of pop culture dominance, thanks in large...

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 volume manga series, Monster. Urasawa's story follows a brilliant young doctor,...

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 better than ever before. Doj-Con (previously Dee-Con) is Scotland's largest...

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.

Brigid Alverson shows us how it's done in this comprehensive report on the state of the US manga market. The big shock is that despite sales shrinkage since the boom years, it's still a relatively stable market:

Dre Grigoropol has contributed to several anthologies and 'zines, and works as an illustrator, cartoonist, and blogger. Her blogging work can often be seen addressing feminism and pop culture topics at Bust Magazine. Her...

Ryan Humphrey posted this fantastic Simpson/Akira mash up comic on his tumblr last night and it's been picking up a healthy number of notes since. The comic (which you can see below) is really striking,...

by Lea Hernandez - My long-time friend Toren Smith has passed away after a protracted bout of ill health, and I'm heartbroken. I worked for him over the course of seventeen years as part of his elite Studio Proteus team; doing retouch on adult comics, and rewriting titles like 3x3 Eyes, What's Michael? And Oh! My Goddess!. If Toren had lived another year, I would've known him for exactly half my life.

It came in the night like an earthquake or a car crash: JManga, the digital manga portal set up by 39 of Japan's migegst publishers, is shutting down. As of last night you could not make any more point purchases, as of the 26th you will no longer be able to purchase manga and as of May 30th the entire site goes away -- taking all of the manga you bought with it.