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Vertical Ink announces; So our newest license acquisition is Moyoco Anno's bio-manga "Insufficient Direction." Here Moyoco details her budding romance and eventual marriage with renowned director Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) It's a funny, touching and insightful look into the lives of two of Japan's biggest names in anime/manga culture. Look for it in stores next spring!   [...]

  And you thought My Little Pony sold a lot of comic books… Viz is about to start publishing Hello Kitty manga, with a series of original graphic novels featuring the uber-popular Sanrio mascot. A Hello Kitty single issue will also debut at San Diego Comic Con, with a cover by Jacob Chabot, and the comic drawn by[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for comics defined as "manga" sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are dominated by Sailor Moon and Naruto, for the top thirteen spots, aside from the third volume of Empowered, the manga nature of which will no doubt be[...]

Adi Tantimedh reports from the floor of NYCC for Bleeding Cool Adi Tantimedh talks to editor Robert McGuire about the Gen Manga's unique policy of publishing indie manga creators in their US debuts and the lineup of titles. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmc0Fw7kRM[/youtube]   Adi Tantimedh reports from the floor of NYCC for Bleeding Cool Adi Tantimedh talks to editor Robert McGuire about[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool from the floor of NYCC; I talk a look at Vertical's booth and the range of manga and books they publish.  My thumb makes an unwelcome cameo as Vertical editor Ed Chavez talks about their upcoming manga, including a limited omnibus editions of GUNDAM: ORIGIN, which adapts the original anime series[...]

Contrary to popular opinion, not everyone in Japan thinks that porn comics are just one of life's things. This week an unemployed 44 year old man from Kobe, was charged with taking pages of his hand drawn erotic manga, and sticking them under the windscreen wipers of parked cars It's alleged he'd been doing this kind[...]

There will be two hundred copies of this exclusive Fatale signing edition, with the bookplate (right) available… MangaWatch: Midtown gets some press on the basis that… women like manga That's right, in 2012, this is a story. Once an all-male domain, the store is seeing the refreshing surge of female clientele and they are all heading to[...]

A week after that, Steve Wacker, my current editor, emailed me and asked me if I can hop in for the team Captain Marvel." MangaWatch: Comics Alliance looks at the literary impact of manga, with Helen McCarthy. "…Manga are really packages — containers — for hopes and dreams and fears and manga are where we decode our[...]

I first wrote about the manga series UNTIL DEATH DO US PART in a column back in 2010 Back then, it was only available in Asia and in pirated English scanlations whose fan translators, bless 'em, were not always people for whom English was their native language. The story has a deceptively simple start: a young[...]

HyperWatch: Cover for Hypernaturals #2 out in August by Francesco Mattina, Timothy Green II, and Trevor Harsine. StarWatch: Retailer Bret Parks, owner of Salefish Comics in Salem, North Carolina, has written "Strikes," a self-published mini-comic with local artist Ben Towle, about wanting to see Empire Strikes Back as a child. ChangeWatch: Grant Morrison promises[...]

In two days, Ken Sasaki will be appointed the new President and CEO of Viz Media, America's biggest manga publisher, succeeding Hidemi Fukuhara, who will becoming Vice Chairman of the company. Sasaki has been with the company since 2008 and has been promoted from Senior Vice President and General Manager, where he led the recent anime[...]

And now other film companies are jumping on the Japanese manga bandwagon Deadline reports Kamala Films have acquired the rights to 1970s Kazuo Koike-created Lone Wolf and Cub, and hired screenwriters David and Janet Peoples to adapt, and eventually Justin Lin to direct The iconic manga centers around Ogami Itto, a top executioner working for[...]

  The case against one US citizen Ryan Matheson by the Canadian courts, for manga comics deemed to be illegally pornographic held on his computer as he crossed the border, has been dismissed, with all criminal charges withdrawn. Both the US Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Canadian Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund helped fight the case,[...]

"And my master may be dead for a while now, but he has told me that when my life is threatened, he will save me." "And how's he gong to do that?" "He's gone back in time and he's homing in your parents RIGHT NOW!" And that's the cliffhanger ending of this comic and my mind blown a[...]

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 effects, even on big tentpole pictures is, by its very nature, behind the scenes. His backstage work doesn't end there, however, as Variety are crediting him as the man who[...]

Fans can catch 'The Avengers' in action exclusively at the convention at the special 'Marvel' zone with comics, merchandise and many other surprises. GiantWatch: The hardcover collection of Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura's I Kill Giants has won the fifth International Manga Award organised by the Japanese government. TransformaWatch: The HuffPo dreams of Simon Furman. The best[...]

From the new Shonen Jump, here is one piece of One Piece fan art sent in and published, drawn by one Tom Warburton, creator of the popular Cartoon Network

It is the best selling comic book in the world, each volume selling millions in their first week on sale in Japan. And today volume 59 of One Piece is

Erica Friedman writes for Bleeding Cool; I'm staring at my pile of to-watch and to-read anime and manga and I can't but help notice that there are a lot of familiar titles among the mix And, as it's that time of year again, at which Americans decide what matching pen and pencil set to[...]

Could this be the best Thanksgiving deal for aspiring or working comic book professionals? Manga Studio Ex 4 down from $300 to $60 on Amazon right now Here's what you get; UPDATE: Sorry folks, back up to $160 now… looks like it was too popular! Course, that means it's now cheaper in the UK… Manga Studio EX[...]

On her blog, bestselling fantasy author Heather Brewer writes; Oh, yes, my hungry little Minions. The title of this post does not lie. Sooooo many of you

Gen Manga is a relatively new US publisher of Japanese comic books, describing themselves as publishing "Indie Manga from the Tokyo Underground." We're talking doujinshi Hard to come by in the US. Indeed, so cutting edge are they, that rather than translate published manga for the US market som mnths later, they publish them[...]

HelpWatch: Comics Alliance is running posters by comic creators being created to benefit publisher Dylan Williams. FlyerWatch: Si Spencer and friends are

At Comic Con today, Uglies writer Scott Westerfield announced a manga adaptation of his sci-fi novel series Uglies starting in May next year Drawn by Steven Cumming, an American living in Tokyo, these will be four books of 200 pages each, and will retell the story of a world where people get extreme plastic surgery[...]

Here's a screencap from the anime series Tsubasa, with one of Clow Reed's Magic Circles. You can see a clearer version here. Which was recreated by a

Japanese manga, not photography or similar. The unnamed individual was charged with posession of child porn and importation into Canada If found guilty he will be sentenced to aminimum of a year. What counts as child pornography in such a case will most likely be an issue Certain manga portray adult characters in child like forms[...]

Why the original series that inspires the massively selling Sailor Moon manga series has never been published in America. There may not be a ready answer, but at least people will stop asking the question From Kodansha Comics USA in September, comes the first volume of Codename Sailor V, originally published in 1991, starring the young[...]

I've written a short one page piece with artist Mike Collins for the upcoming Spirit Of Hope anthology from Comic Book Alliance, to raise money for

That was the manga publisher that was. After rising on a manga boom in the noughties, the fourteen-year-old publisher of both Japanese reprint and US originated manga and mangaesque material has been laying off books and people for the last few years and now, according to The Beat, will be closing its doors at the end[...]

Yesterday, NEC Biglobe launched digital bookstores for manga in Japan and the USA, for download onto smartphones and tablets using Android apps. Right now though the selection is limited to 300 in Japan (including The Rose Of Versaille and Kimagure Orange Road) and 150 in the USA (including Appleseed, Cat Eyed Girl and Yoan) But the[...]