Ten Most Powerful people in manga
Yesterday, ICv2 published a list of the Top Ten Most Powerful people in Manga, gleaned from interviews with other industry figures. Here's the power list:
1. Kurt Hassler, Graphic Novel Buyer, Borders Group
2. Hidemi...
Manga moment
Jarred Pine has a good review of ODE TO KIRIHITO at Anime on DVD:
Ode to Kirihito might just be the most important, and at times the strangest, manga that I’ll not just read this...
Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE FARTHEST SHORE. The story, written by Charles Solomon, covers the...
Paul Gravett: Article – Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga
Paul Gravett on gekiga:
During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka's Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment. Manga books were pricey, so people took to hiring them...
Otaku invade Romania!
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OTAKU GO WILD IN BUCHAREST THIS WEEKEND! MULTI-CULTI APOTHEOSIS! 40-year-old virgin gypsies! Carpathian cosplay! If it's half as crayzee as that video, we are so bummed to be missing out.
Prima conventie...
Manga Corner
⢠Yoshihiro Yonezawa, founder of Comiket, the world's largest comics convention, has died at age 53:
Yonezawa organized the first Comiket (Comic Market) in 1975 to display and sell dojinshi (self-published manga and novels). In...
Consortium picks up CPM and DramaQueen
Via MangaCast news that the book distributor Consortium has picked up two manga publishers: the temporarily defunct CPM and yaoi specialist DramaQueen. MangaCast has much analysis:
CPM has had a deal with Consortium before. Actually...
Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for the week ending September 17th displays the effect of the...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan.
Rather than wait multiple months for the next volume of...
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA.)
Ad Age explains (via sneaky Google cache):
Hence, the Freedom Project....
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that is not all that's been going on in Anime-land this...
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming back via the CMX imprint.
Long before the dawn...
