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By Michele Brittany, a West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Walking around the exhibition hall, it doesn't take too long to figure out what's popular this season in anime and manga, according to the 23rd annual Anime Expo (AX) that's being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center July 3 – 6. It's day two of AX and[...]

While AX is still very much about anime and manga, it is no longer exclusive to those two mediums. The amazing cosplay costumes did not disappoint today There were some cute surprises such as Brave Little Toaster or the improvised ingenuity of the two men that wore boxes with their character names on the front[...]

Straight from the Anime Expo, held in New York right now. Dark Horse Comics have announced that, after suspending their publication, they will go back to

During that time a Japanese shōnen manga was created by Jiro Kuwata This was a pretty well kept secret outside of the manga community until Pantheon Books put a collection together called Batmanga designed by Chip Kidd A collection of all 53 chapters were published in a three volume box set in 2013. Now DC Comics is going to[...]

However, in my mind, Sidney's choice of backdrops is what sets his production apart. The opening voiceover narrative accompanied by sparsely projected manga style panels on the backdrop screen created a post-apocalyptic atmosphere Sidney's interpretation of Hamlet's arrival in Denmark after a twenty-year absence as being both alive and dead, reminded him of the masterless samurai,[...]

It is often explained that Japanese manga often infantilises adult characters for storytelling effect, even if momentarily, and could be caught if laws were extended to manga But critics dismiss this, pointing at the repeated availability of extreme imagery in comic book form, at a time when Japan is in the grip of increasing legal[...]

Dark Horse published the final, 28th volume of the manga series back on 2002.  Koike began writing the sequel series in the late 1990s and I assume Dark Horse waited for the 11-volume series to be completed in Japan before finalizing a deal publish the US edition Of course, you should read the original series[...]

Frank on how illness and suffering is depicted in graphic novels and how they may help patients. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will talk about Fredric Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent – and what's wrong with the conclusions about how comics lead to juvenile delinquency. And James Sturm will talk about how the Center for Cartoon Studies works[...]

It's not just for manga. The PC and Mac program loved by comic creators worldwide is currently down to $17.99 on Amazon as opposed to the usual $79.99 cover price. Might be worth jumping on… the UK as well, is also reduced, though over twice the US price, to £27.99. Add power and flexibility to your design process[...]

I would say there was a real spike in more women creators entering the comics arena – particularly the indies – in the 1990's, commensurate with the huge rise in popularity of Japanese anime and manga From the hundreds of girls' and women's portfolios I've looked at over the years, I feel safe in saying[...]

The Fukushima nuclear disaster has been portrayed in manga form in a way that has angered Japanese government And peculiarly, it's from a cooking manga title, one that's been running for thirty years. Oishinbo stars a character, Shiro Yamaoka, gets a nosebleed after visiting Fukushima No 1 power plant The comic features a character based on the[...]

What sets the latest generation apart is the emergence of a new weapon that may be a trump card, more radical and ruthless strategies and, at last, a push to uncover the mystery of the Titans and their origins and the possibility of ending the war once and for all. The original manga series began serialization[...]

His background and experience in the feature film world complements BOOM!'s existing expertise in comic book and graphic novel publishing, furthering our goal of successfully guiding the translation of our catalog into motion pictures." Let's hope his has a better fate than the now-disappeared co-founder of Boom!, Andrew Crosby. THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT FIGHTS MANGA PIRACY The Japan government[...]

A Japanese manga adaptation of the BBC Sherlock TV series And now being published in English later this year. As a result of this information being… passed around, a number of manga scanlation sites, in which comic pages are unofficially translated and put online, and pulled down the Sherlock pages.Most of them.  [...]

The important thing for me is that we establish how common harassment is and hopefully point out some of those missing stairs in the industry. If you want to talk to me, you can drop me a line at janelle.m.asselin@gmail.com. MANGA TERRORIST GOES LIVE ACTION According to yesterday's issue of Shueisha's Jump X, a live action movie is[...]

Wish me luck. TITANIC DAZE Hajime Isayama's Attack On Titan is going to print 2.75 million for volume 13 of the popular manga. At great cost to the Garrison and the Survey Corps, Commander Erwin has managed to recover Eren from the Titans who tried to carry him off But during the battle, Eren manifested yet another power[...]

(Baka being the all-purpose insult word that is usually translated to "idiot" in English.  Really hard to get Japanese guests to come to a convention where the name is indicating the people there idiots…) The convention renamed in 2000 to Sakura Con and has been a regular feature on my "con-circuit" for several reasons. First and[...]

Sex Criminals is the smash hit sex comedy from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, published by Image Comics. In which a couple meet, who both have the power

Adi Tantimedh writes, I've actually waited years to write this column. Moyoco Anno is one of my favourite creators of Josei manga, comics aimed at a 20something female readership that enjoys a huge market in Japan but is still underexploited in the West She's a far bigger deal in Japan than comics fans in the West realize[...]

Japan Chibi Weekend is an event with a primary focus on anime, manga and Japanese culture This weekend features a wide variety of activities and panels, with a large number of attendees participating in cosplay Also there were also a lot of studios represented, as well as distributors, retailers and publishers like Ivrea Ediciones, Selecta[...]

By José Luis del Río Fortich Japan Chibi Weekend is an international event focusing on Japanese and Korean culture held in Madrid.  Fans can enjoy video games, anime, manga or singing your favorite music as karaoke There are also cosplay contests and live concerts. Last year, we enjoyed it with the Dragon Ball Exposition[...]

The cosplay industry is growing in leaps and bounds. We're seeing TV shows, Calendars and even on-line tutorials on how to make your own costumes. But

Kazuto Takita was a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 when the earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster. But it seems he was also a budding manga creator And now he has turned his experiences into a new project, 1F: Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudenjo Rōdōki (1F: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant[...]

Because it's a manga adaptation of the BBC Sherlock series. Still not translated into English (at least, not officially) this does seem a lot like leaving pounds and dollars on the table, and only accepting yen. An volume adapting Study In Pink came out earlier this year, now creator Jay will be publishing the TV show's second[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes; One of the events at NYCC 2013 that was a big deal but went under-reported was the Masters of Animanga panel to commemorate the successful conclusion of their fan-driven collaboration with several manga and anime masters The Wikia website started out as a variation on Wikipedia, a web hub for fans of anime, manga,[...]

An Interview by Adi Tantimedh for Bleeding Cool: Gen Manga are the only publisher in West that brings out indie and underground manga from Japan We catch up with editor Robert McGuire on how they're doing. [youtube]http://youtu.be/FntCTNZ3AJ8[/youtube] An Interview by Adi Tantimedh for Bleeding Cool: Gen Manga are the only publisher in West that brings out indie and[...]

Otakon 2013 took place last weekend and the fine folks over at Beat Down Boogie put together not one, but two video montages and posted a huge gallery of

You are here to learn to think for Manga finds a new audience in Hindi The Japan Foundation Delhi is all set to launch a Manga comic book, Yunagi no machi Sakura no Kuni, on Tuesday The comics are translated into Hindi by Tomoko Kikuchi. The book is a unification of two stories – Yunagi no machi[...]

All of their Street Fighter comics will be made available, some of the manga they translate such as Capcom's Captain Commando, and their original works such as Makeshift Miracle and Random Views They will have day and date releases for future graphic novels such as the upcoming Super Street Fighter II. The next announcement was that[...]

Digital Comic And Manga Fans just got a whole new batch of stories to read thanks to Seven Seas Entertainment and comiXology. This morning in the midst of Comic-Con International 2013 Seven Seas Entertainment, publisher of New York Times bestselling manga, announced a distribution agreement with comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform with more than[...]