Movie updates
Rich JohnsTon got a brief respone from Frank Miller on yesterday's SIN CITY 2 rumors:
This is patent nonsense. Cybercrap.
Okay then.
Meanwhile, Cinematical has two news items of interest to our kind. #1, one-time Frank...
Linkage 11/5
§ Naniwa has thoughts on Kurt Hassler's move at MangaCast:
Kurt Hassler's decisions over the last few years set a tone for book stores across the US as manga began to expand from its traditions...
Hachette names GN line; Hassler leaves Borders
Big news via PW Daily:
The Hachette Book Group is launching Yen Press, a new comics and graphic novel imprint that will focus on titles for adults and young readers, PW Daily learned this morning....
Why girls love boys love
Every one has already linked to this story by Eliza Strickland, which is the best written and researched piece we've yet seen on just why girls like comics about 12-year-old Japanese boys shagging one...
Boys and girls….different?
TheManganews forum picks up debates on whether the strict, audience-defined Japanese genres of manga are really useful outside of Japan:
The debate in the staff started a few days ago, when anitra saw the press...
IRON WOK JAN: SUMMIT BATTLE
ComiPress reports that IRON WOK JAN creator Shinji Saijyo has a new Iron Wok Jan serial beginning!
A new Iron Wok Jan manga from Shinji Saijyo will begin serialization in Weekly Shonen Champion No.50,...
Wachowskis go Speed Racer go!
A Live action SPEED RACER movie directed by the Wachowski Brothers is ON:
Producer Joel Silver has stated that the long talked about Speed Racer movie has been given the green light and is expected...
Linkage 10/30
§ Over at the The Forbidden Planet International Blog the artist known as Ilya is intervieed asbout a new brit anthology with the promising title The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga,a 500 (!)...
Maid in cafe molested
"Maid cafes" have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly lolicon costumes wait on male geek customers hand and foot,...
Around the world of comics
§ Jewish Week examines how Batman embodies Jewish values as explained by Rabbi Cary Freidman:
Friedman argues that Batman instills in his audience some of Judaismâs most important moral values, using supporting examples from Torah,...
Comics on cells boffo in Japan
Newsweek looks at the popularity of comics delivered via cell phone:
Consumer demand for manga (the Japanese word for print comics) has surged in recent months, thanks to high-speed 3G phones, the proliferation of fixed-rate...
Links so good
§ Johanna has more commentary on ICv2's Most Powerful People in manga list, including spots 11-20:
# Robin Brenner, Young Adwult Library Services Association# Jim Chadwick, Editor in Chief, CMX# Liza Coppola, Senior VP of...
