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When Marvel translated Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo into English, they also coloured the black-and-white originals, employing Steve Oliff for the task. Well, over 300 hand-painted Oliff colour guides are about to be made available on felixcomicart.com from $40 up. They'll also be debuting a short documentary where Steve outlines his working relationship with Otomo… We'll update when it all goes live.   [...]

And so this years president and winner of last year's Grand Prix Award  Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira, has done so. He will also have a previously-unheard-of two-and-a-half hour presentation at the Angoulême theatre during the festival. During which Otomo will tell in detail how he conceived and developed Akira,which will be punctuated with video and audio[...]

Yesterday, it was announced that the three finalists for the Angoulême Grand Prix award, which celebrates a comic book creator's lifetime contributing to

Then there's the Hollywood live action remake of Akira, still languishing in development hell after more than ten years of scripts and different directors attached The impression I've had was that every approach was woefully wrongheaded, no matter how many brilliant comics artists and production designers they had drawing storyboards and designs for it over[...]

Still, here are some of Chris Weston's live-action Akira storyboards, as posted on his blog.    When these things start to come out, you know there's no more chance Still, here are some of Chris Weston's live-action Akira storyboards, as posted on his blog.    When these[...]

Chris Weston's cover to Judge Dredd Magazine and the poster to Akira But why this inspiration? 2000AD Covers asks Chris Weston; "I think most people know that I recently spent  a great deal of time working on a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira." I was literally two weeks away from going out to work in[...]

Fans breathed a sigh of relief when Warner Bros shut down production on an Americanized big screen version of Akira, but that was short-lived as the studio began work on Bleach instead And now other film companies are jumping on the Japanese manga bandwagon Deadline reports Kamala Films have acquired the rights to 1970s Kazuo[...]

Live Action Akira for $800 Jump on. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMMdH8ofwo[/youtube] Patrick Willems does the impossible with a new Afterwards They Will Explode video for Bleeding Cool. Live Action Akira for $800 Jump on. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMMdH8ofwo[/youtube] Patrick Willems does the impossible with a new Afterwards They Will Explode video for Bleeding Cool.[...]

It's not too surprising that Masi Oka is better known as an actor, and best known as Hiro in Heroes, because his behind-the-scenes work in special

Last week's whispers that Garrett Hedlund had been offered the role of Kaneda in Jaume Collet-Serra's American adaptation of Katsuhiro Ohtomo's Akira remain nothing but rumours for now, but the intelligence agency known sometimes as Twitch has offered up some more casting news which they sound pretty confident about Apparently Gary Oldman has been offered[...]

Comics artist Chris Weston has spent the last year creating design work for the now-floundering Akira live-action movie And his non-disclosure agreement means that he can't show his work off or even talk that much about it. But he can talk about his approach He writes; On my first day on the job I was asked to[...]

Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: Akira should be a big movie for 2013 With a rumoured budget of $250 million, Akira would be the first in a two-part live action depiction of the 1988 anime film of the same name, an epic story of biker gangs, kidnapped friends and powerful supernatural experiments. Albert Hughes (The Book[...]

Bleeding Cool urges the new DC to take a wider view, and that this is good for Batman… in that it's at least getting talked about. CameoWatch: Tony Lee was an extra in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, playing "an urchin". GillenWatch: Kieron Gillen on that Generation Hope swipe… "Some readers have commented that Kenji is behaving like[...]

and from Akira. From Generation Hope, and from Akira. Generation Hope, and Akira Absolutely Here's the usual… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to[...]