Free Comic Book Day is owned and run by Diamond Comic Distributors. The company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has seen a number of publishers pull out of Diamond completely as a result. With tariffs threatened on comics published in Canada – which is most of the Free Comic Book Day titles […]
The X-Men manga remastering gets a second volume from Viz Media and Marvel in Viz's March 2025 solicits, as well as Minecraft The Manga from Kazuyoshi Seto and the launches of Dogsred by Satoru Noda, and A Star Brighter Than The Sun by Kazune Kawahara. X-MEN MANGA REMASTERED GN VOL 02 VIZ MEDIA LLC JAN252009 […]
Oricon is the head of a Japanese corporate group established in 1967 that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It stands for Original Confidence. The group also records manga sales in Japan and provides rankings across entertainment. So far, it has released estimated sales figures for collected manga volumes in […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at potential fears for the comic book industry regarding promised tariffs and taxes being levelled against Canada, Mexico and China. And a few more people with knowledge of the situation have been having their say. Anne Trubek is an author, founder, and director of Belt Magazine, the writer of The History and Uncertain Future […]
There is some irony that America is celebrating Thanksgiving at a time when they are also planning new trade taxes on importers when the American Revolution was classically started over the rejection of tariffs over tea and a certain Botany Bay. But I am a Brit, so what do I know? Well, I am a […]
Last month, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Diamond Comic Distributors was closing its Plattsburgh warehouse. Dubbed a "Strategic Consolidation of Warehousing Operations", Diamond Comic Distributors has told comic book publishers today that "as part of our ongoing evaluation of operations, we have made the strategic decision to consolidate warehousing to improve overall efficiency. As […]
At the Yen Press Industry Panel at New York Comic Con 2024, they announced their imprint Ize Press would be publishing the print editions of four new comics: Lady Devil, Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner, Lover Boy, and Radio Storm. Lady Devil and Lover Boy are set to release in April 2025. The publication date of Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner and Radio Storm will be […]
As we all know from YouTube commentators, modern American comic books are failing in terms of sales because the publishers and creators are just telling a series of woke political lectures, and this is why manga is also increasing sales in America because they don't have any of that woke nonsense. Anyway, Viz Media is […]
Viz Media are bringing back X-Men Manga, remastered, by Hiroshi Higuchi, an original manga adaptation of the original TV series, as part of Viz's November 2024 solicits and solicitations. X-MEN MANGA REMASTERED GN VOL 01 VIZ MEDIA LLC SEP242237 (W) Hiroshi Higuchi (A) Hiroshi Higuchi X-Men: The Animated Series was a global sensation and the […]
Secret Steward is a new manga series by Sanshirō Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi from Viz Media, that seems to be hiding a familiar face in the first chapter, published tbis week. Best known as the creators of the Deadpool Samurai manga series for Marvel and Viz Media, it looks like they have continued that run […]
Viz Media launches its Marvel-licensed Spider-Man: Octo-Girl in its October 2024 solicits and solicitations in English, from Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court SPIDER-MAN OCTO-GIRL GN VOL 01 VIZ LLC FEB247420 (W) Hideyuki Furuhashi (A / CA) Betten Court Spider-Man rogue Doctor Octopus faces his biggest challenge yet-living life as a middle school girl in Japan! […]
Manga and anime publisher VIZ Media had a highly successful presence at this year's SDCC with two panels. It was only Thursday, the first day of the con and the publisher already trotted out major announcements for new projects. At the VIZ Media panel, they announced that Rooster Fighter, everyone's favorite cock created by Shu […]
Viz is bringing the Disney mobile game to manga with an anthology set in the world of Twisted Wonderland, each from a different creator, as part of their September 2024 solicits and solicitations. DISNEY TWISTED WONDERLAND MANGA ANTHOLOGY GN VOL 01 VIZ LLC FEB247334 (W) Various (A) Various An anthology of manga shorts featuring all […]
Yutaka's tale of high school rebellion and romance in I Wanna Do Bad Things With You leads Viz Media's August 2024 solicits and solicitations with volume one, as Wataya learns the thrills of teenage rebellion, inspired by villains in anime and manga. I WANNA DO BAD THINGS WITH YOU GN VOL 01 VIZ LLC OCT238526 […]
VIZ Manga subscribers are getting Marvel manga titles added to their service, including Deadpool: Samurai, Wolverine: Snikt!, Spider-Man: Fake Red, and Marvel's Secret Reverse. This will be followed in the autumn by Spider-Man: Octo-Girl, and X-Men: The Manga: Remastered. This comes with a co-promotion between VIZ Manga and Marvel Unlimited for a limited-time one-month gift subscriptions […]
Viz Media are launching the English translation of Naruto spinoff Sasuke's Story by Shingo Kimura, Masashi Kishimoto and Jun Esaka in their June 2024 solicits and solicitations. as well as Aki Kusaka's Let's Do It Already and Kasumi Yasuda's Fool Night. NARUTO SASUKE'S STORY UCHIHA HEAVENLY STARDUST GN VOL 01 VIZ LLC OCT238097 (W) Shingo Kimura, […]
Bleeding Cool gets the word on a number of major comic book industry hiring moves coming that may change the face of the direct market for comic books as it currently stands. That's basically it, by the way. But there are all manner of dots and crosses to be added, entire departments to be informed […]
When Marvel made the X-Men: The Animated Series back in the nineties, there was also a manga adaptation of the cartoon published in Japan. It was initially published directly to tankobon, or stand-alone collected format by Takeshobo in 1994 under their Bamboo Comics imprint in order to promote the Japanese airing of the TV show, […]
Star Wars Visions lead Viz Manga's May 2024 solicits and solicitations, including Star Wars stories by Kamome Shirahama, Keisuke Sato, Yusuke Osawa and Haruichi with adaptations of The Elder, Lop and Och?, The Ninth Jedi, and The Twins. As well as the second volume of the manga adaptation of The Mandalorian. We call it the […]
It's not just Tokyopop that has Disney manga licenses in 2024, Viz Media has them too. Including Belle from Beauty And The Beast in her own parallel universe story part of the Disney Mirrorverse, by Alex Singer, Jan Apple and Irene Flores. And leading the full Viz Media April 2024 solicits and solicitations. Alongside Pokemon, […]
