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(Since her college thesis, she's featured these four mediums in all of her solo shows.) Within the next few years, she signed with New York's Castor Gallery, participated in a myriad of art fairs, group shows, and, in 2015, created the annual artist book for Purple Magazine." And her most recent work, which includes taking other famous[...]

In a story sure to bring a smile to Dan Slott's face, five people have been arrested in Japan for scanning and uploading pages from the manga One Piece before its release date. Though One Piece is a comic about pirates — the kind that have eye patches and peg legs and say "arrrrrrrr," — that[...]

Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy Rush is a new manga series from Kōhei Uchida, licensed from Marvel and available on DeNA's free Manga Box app every Wednesday. Only available in Japan — and in Japanese — it's a result of his winning the "Marvel" Special Prize manga contest held by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine earlier this year. The story sees the Guardians enter[...]

Keiichi Tanaka has had a pretty cool career being an artist for manga, anime, and video games You probably recognize him best from his work in Doctor Chichibuyama Tanaka has put up a new web manga that video game fans may be interested in, as it documents pieces of his career, specifically a pivotal moment in[...]

Yusuke Murata is a Japanese manga artist known for drawing the digital manga remake of One's One-Punch Man, and for the football manga Eyeshield 21 But his latest illustration is American superhero comic icon Spider-Man, for a movie poster promoting Spider-Man: Homecoming in Japan. The poster comes from Japan's official Spider-Man movie twitter account, and ComicBookMovie[...]

Black Hook Press/Gallery Hakusen are exhibiting, for the first time in the UK, original art from the 1980s slice of life manga series Dokudami Tenement at Orbital Comics in London, right now. Dokudami Tenement tells the fortunes of a group of single room dwellers who live on the margins of Tokyo society The series ran in[...]

Best-selling manga series One Piece will be the next comics property to make the jump from page to screen, as Marty Adelstein's Tomorrow Studios has announced they are partnering with One Piece publisher Shueisha to adapt the comic for a live-action television series. The new One Piece series is expected to be executive-produced by Shueisha and[...]

Manga publisher Tokyopop is producing a follow-up to Tim Burton's 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. The comic sequel, titled Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey, will reportedly star Jack Skellington's dog, Zero, according to a report from THR From the creative team of DJ Milky and Studio DICE, the book will be released as full-color floppies, then collected into[...]

The set will be available this holiday season and pre-orders will include a special Sailor Moon sun catcher. Coming in January 2018 is the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition of the original manga The Eternal Edition will be a new translation of the series collected in 10 volumes, each with their own new cover The collected volumes[...]

Alex Roberts writes: Titan Comics brought their new Sherlock Manga series to San Diego Comic-Con with Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat and his wife and producer Sue Vertue. The manga series, based on the stories written by the show's co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, features characters in the likeliness of the show actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman[...]

Have you been waiting to get your hands on the Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set since you heard about it April? Are you planning to be at San Diego Comic

Fans were given a fresh look at the heroes from Studio Pierrot's new anime series Black Clover, their adaptation of Yuki Tabata's internationally popular fantasy manga The studio behind the massive Naruto anime franchise also released some of the names of that will be working behind the scenes on the series. The upcoming anime's first episode[...]

It was also confirmed through the film's Twitter account that Tite Kubo's manga-turned-movie would premiere Summer 2018, with previously-announced Sōta Fukushi as Kurosaki and Shinsuke Sato assuming the director's chair. https://youtu.be/pXUy4d4saAMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 映画『BLEACH』超特報【HD】2018年7月20日（金）公開 (https://youtu.be/pXUy4d4saAM) While the teaser trailer itself is a lot more "teaser" than "trailer," it does a good job of setting the[...]

So much so, that he is getting his own manga! You know you're hot shit in Japan when someone decides they want to make an illustrated bio about your life. UDON Entertainment is the company that will be producing and releasing the book in the west called Daigo The Beast, featuring several chapters about Umehara's rise through the[...]

Funimation stunned a packed audience at Anime Expo 2017 this weekend when they announced that Attack on Titan's Season 3 would premiere in Spring 2018...

It's going to solve all crime." Adam Wingard (You're Next, Blair Witch) was chosen to direct the film, which is based on an adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba's manga series Netflix first released a teaser trailer for the movie in March, and there was backlash from some accusing Netflix of "whitewashing" the original source material and depriving actors of[...]

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    Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, sent over a review copy of The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up, a manga adaptation of neatness guru Marie Kondo's self-help book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The latter was a massive worldwide bestselling book, so you'd think it was a no-brainer to have a manga version[...]

As we have talked about in the past, Shiori Teshirogi's new manga — Batman and Justice League —came out on June 19th to build up hype about the upcoming Justice League film According to Anime News Network, the manga has a pretty simple premise: "The manga is titled Batman and Justice League, and features Batman, Superman, Wonder[...]

Following close on the heels of its Japanese premiere back on April 29th, Takashi Miike's live-action adaptation of the classic manga Blade of the Immortal has been picked up for a North American release by Magnet Releasing Magnet is the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, and has previously released such films as 13 Assassins and[...]

Manga artist Shiori Teshirogi will produce a manga to tie-in with the release of the Justice League movie in Japan, according to a report on Oricon News The new book was announced during a visit to the country by DC Entertainment executives Diane Nelson and Jim Lee to promote upcoming movies Wonder Woman and Justice League, and[...]

In August of 1991, manga-ka Naoko Takeuchi created a sailor suited soldier named Sailor Venus, or Sailor V for short Sailor V was initially just a short story, combining Takeuchi's love of tokusatsu and magical girls into one Sailor V followed Minako Aino a 14 year old middle school student One day during gym class[...]

Katsucon has a long standing tradition of having some of the best cosplay. The following shots were taken Thursday-Saturday, and as you can see each and

I've been going to Katsucon for roughly 16 years at this point. I remember when it was a small con, maybe a few thousand people. Then it grew. And kept

One of the giants of literary manga has passed away today Jiro Taniguchi, creator of Kodoku no Gourmet and The Times of Botchan, was 69 years old. Taniguchi was born in 1947 in Tottori City in western Japan and moved to Tokyo to become a manga creator He made his debut with Kareta Heya at the[...]

During San Diego Comic Con, we learned that Kodansha Comics was planning a deluxe edition of the Ghost In The Shell manga to be released alongside the feature film in March that somewhat controversially stars Scarlet Johansson in the lead role But in a surprise move today, the company has apparently released the series digitally[...]

Manga publisher Yen Press has announced a distribution deal with Amazon-owned digital comics behemoth comiXology that sees 1200 manga titles launching today on the platform Included amongst those titles are a manga based on the video game Kingdom Hearts, a manga based on the popular sparkly vampire novel series Twilight, a manga based on the[...]

Live action anime/manga seems to be in somewhat at the moment We just got the trailer for Ghost in the Shell, and of course, there was the Japanese production of Attack On Titan fairly recently too. Well, we have another now too as the first trailer for the Full Metal Alchemeist live action movie has just hit[...]

Amazon has announced today that they are releasing a "Manga Model" Kindle Paperwhite via Amazon Japan, with 32GB of storage (8x the standard for Paperwhite) to handle the needs of storing artwork, plus faster page-turning speed to prevent any lag in handling the heavier files. It's an intriguing move, and one that reminds me of the[...]

By Ale Bodden Once again NYCC is upon us, and with it we get new Manga titles announced by Kodansha Comics The panel was moderated by Ben Applegate, Director of publishing for Kodansha, and joining him on stage were editors and Kodansha team members from both, US and Japan- including Yasuyuki Mimira (Inuyashiki and Devil's Line). Immediately[...]