Tag: Viz

by Zachary Clemente Way back in the early 90s, Nintendo Power published a serialized run of The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past limited comic series....

Junji Ito! Junji Ito! Junji Ito! Japanese horror master Ito has been avoiding the genre of his greatest triumphs—Uzimaki, Tomie, Gyo— for eight years, but...

I know we've been slacking a bit with 31 Days due to the horrors of New York Comic-Con, but it's full sped ahead to the pumpkins now. And here is the best thing you will hear today, tomorrow or possibly in a lifetime: Japanese Horror master Junji Ito Is doing a Pokemon collaboration. Yeah that's right. The creator of Uzumaki, Museum of Terror, the Long Hair in the Attic and much more, is doing POKEMON. The news was announced in Japan as a "Collaboration," you know, like Tokidoki doing Marvel, except terrifying and unspeakable. It's called “Kowapoke,” which means “Scarypoke” and a single phone wallpaper image has been released thus far. That's Banette, cute little Banette, admittedly not the nicest Pokemon, now all Kowapoke'd up. T-shirts are being given away in Japan now because life is unknowable and terrifying.

After a long wooing period, Viz has finally joined Comixology. Viz has its own ebook portal for manga and so was no stranger to...

Designer Courtney Utt, who was responsible for some of Viz's most distinctive covers, passed away recently at the age of just 37 following a...

Naoki Urasawa is probably the greatest living genre cartoonist. Sorry ya'll but it's all true. Combining dense, suspenseful plotlines with thrilling, heart stopping artwork that never sacrifices character, he's just the master. He's even won an Eisner Award.Works in English, all published by Viz include MONSTER, PLUTO and 20th CENTURY BOYS. And now, MASTER KEATON, an early (pre-Monster) work from 1988 about a heroic insurance investigator who goes around using his archaeological skills to solve mysteries. SOLD. The series was co-written by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki.

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...

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...

David Gabriel announced a bunch of stuff, including Origins II, Deadpool vs Carnage, and saying "We have not forgotten" Miracleman. Also, more original graphic...

Celebrating one year of publishing, Viz's SuBLime yaoi imprint has announced a slew of new titles: six new titles and 11 debuting volumes. With manga still in the doldrum in the US, it's good to see one imprint hanging in there—the appeal of boy's love manga is still going strong. And who can resist a book called PRETTY MEN FIGHTING DIRTY?

The long-running Uglydoll franchise, which was one of pioneers of the whole "designer toy" category, are finally getting their own graphic novel line, which will be published by Viz as part of the Viz Kids imprint. The line will launch in Summer 2013

It's PR but it includes FREE ICE CREAM. And LUFFY. We glimpsed the brand new Viz booth last night and it looks spectacular.