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Star Wars Manga Visions In Vizs May 2024 Solicits

Star Wars Manga Visions In Viz's May 2024 Solicits

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 […]

Disney Mirrorverse: Belle in Vizs Manga April 2024 Solicits

Disney Mirrorverse: Belle in Viz's Manga April 2024 Solicits

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, […]

One Pieces 105th Piece in Viz Media March 2024 Solicits

One Piece's 105th Piece in Viz Media March 2024 Solicits

With One Piece from Viz Media on the cover of this week's Diamond Previews for the first time, alongside its splash on Netflix, Viz' Media's solicits are more One Piece heavy than usual. From spin-off Aces Story by Sho Hinata, Tatsuya Hamazaki and Boichi, the recipe-based spinoff from the chef Sanji by Yuto Tsukuda and […]

One Piece &#038 ThunderCats On The Cover of Next Weeks Previews Catalog

One Piece & ThunderCats On The Cover of Next Week's Previews Catalog

The January 2024 edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly Previews catalogue is in stores from Wednesday, the 27th of December and features comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop culture merchandise scheduled to go on sale beginning March 2024. Those who are still with Diamond, that is. And a few who, weirdly aren't but […]

Comics JobWatch- DC Image Viz Penguin Abrams Rocksteady &#038 More

Comics JobWatch- DC, Image, Viz, Penguin, Abrams, Rocksteady & More

Here's a Bleeding Cool JobWatch look at recent hirings and promotions at a number of comic book and graphic novel publishers, including DC, Image, Viz, Penguin, Abrams, Rocksteady and more. Nate Cosby writes "I am HIRING!!!!!!!! Specifically: I'm looking for a writer/artist, for a project that heavily focuses on visual storytelling. If interested, please reply […]

Daisy Jealousy &#038 Marriage Toxin in Viz Media January 2024 Solicits

Daisy Jealousy & Marriage Toxin in Viz Media January 2024 Solicits

Daisy Jealousy by Ogeretsu Tanaka is a manga adapted into English from Viz Media's Sublime imprint as part of Viz's January 2024 solicits and solicitations. Including the launch of new manga series Marriage Toxin by Joumyaku and Mizuki Yoda, Steel Of The Celestial Shadows by Daruma Matsuura, Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto and Pokemon […]

Naoki Urusawa Talks Pluto 20th Century Boys &#038 Career at Lucca 2023

Naoki Urusawa Talks Pluto, 20th Century Boys & Career at Lucca 2023

Naoki Urusawa is one of the greatest creators of manga right now, creating not only Pluto, a darker, more political retelling of a classic Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka, but also classic series like Pineapple Army, Happy!, Yawara, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Billy Bat, and the current ongoing Asadora. It made sense that he […]

Alita/Attack On Titan in Gachiakuta- Kodansha January 2024 Solicits

Alita/Attack On Titan in Gachiakuta- Kodansha January 2024 Solicits

Battle Angel Alita meets Attack On Titan is the way that Viz Media is pitching Gachiakuta by Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Andou in their January 2024 solicits and solicitations, as well as their listings for Vertical Comics. GACHIAKUTA GN VOL 01 KODANSHA COMICS NOV231863 (W) Kei Urana (A) Hideyoshi Andou With a premise that recalls […]

Demon Slayer Kimetsu Academy in Viz Media 2023 Solicits

Demon Slayer Kimetsu Academy in Viz Media 2023 Solicits

Natsuki Hokami's Demon Slayer Kimetsu Academy, Ai Yazawa's Neighborhood Story and Shikke's Pink Heart Jam launch their first volumes in Viz Media's December 2023 solicits and solicitations. DEMON SLAYER KIMETSU ACADEMY GN VOL 01 VIZ LLC OCT232084 (W) Natsuki Hokami (A) Natsuki Hokami A private combined elementary, middle, and high school, Kimetsu Academy is home […]

The Comics Industry Suffers Without A Proper Sales Chart

The Comics Industry Suffers Without A Proper Sales Chart

Do you know what the best-selling comic book is right now? And what about the sales of the top comic book publishers? We know in the direct market they will be Marvel and DC, most than likely in that very order, but beyond that… is Image still holding firm at number three? Or is it […]

Yuu Minadukis Love Nest 2nd Generation in Viz November 2023 Soliicts

Yuu Minaduki's Love Nest 2nd Generation in Viz November 2023 Soliicts

Yuu Minaduki's Love Nest 2nd Generation Volume 1 launches Viz Media and their Sublime imprint's November 2023 solicits and solicitations for the month.   LOVE NEST 2ND GN VOL 01 (MR) SUBLIME SEP232065 (W) Yuu Minaduki (A) Yuu Minaduki Masato and Asahi went from odd-couple roommates to live-in lovers and are now enjoying their honeymoon […]

What The Eisner Nominees Are Saying About Being Eisner Nominated

What The Eisner Nominees Are Saying About Being Eisner Nominated

Yesterday, the Eisner Awards 2023 Nominations were announced, ahead of the ceremony for the Friday night of San Diego Comic-Con. Here are the reactions of some of the comic book creators and industry professionals who were nominated, on social media… click through to see more about their nominated work. And we begin with the most-nominated […]

Zoe Thorogood Has Six Nominations For Eisner 2023 Awards Nominees

Zoe Thorogood Has Six Nominations For Eisner 2023 Awards Nominees

Bleeding Cool stated in January that Zoe Thorogood was looking like the next big name in English-speaking comic books. And it seems that the  Eisner Awards committee agree, with the release of the Eisner nominations the most prestigious comic book awards in the English language, have been announced for 2023, to be awarded on the […]

Runescape Free Comic Book Day 2023 $20 on Ebay Spider-Man 2 is $35

Runescape Free Comic Book Day 2023, $20 on Ebay, Spider-Man 2 is $35

They may have been free yesterday, but certain Free Comic Book Day titles are already going for a premium. So how has the aftermarket on eBay reacted? Well, you can buy/sell all 45 Free Comic Book Day comics for $75, but sellers might want to split that up somewhat. The Etrigan The Demon Funko POP […]

The Gangsters Guide to Housekeeping in Viz Media July 2023 Solicits

The Gangster's Guide to Housekeeping in Viz Media July 2023 Solicits

Laurie Ulster and Victoria Rosenthal have spun off the manga hit The Way of the Househusband as a new series, The Gangster's Guide to Housekeeping, as part of the Viz Media July 2023 solicits and solicitations, including their Sublime line as well. Take a look… as well as the Marvel Manga Tribute and the take […]

Boys Over Flowers Guinness World Record For Best-Selling Girls Comic

Boys Over Flowers, Guinness World Record For Best-Selling Girls Comic

The Japanese manga series Hana Yori Dango, translated as Boys Over Flowers, has been awarded the best-selling comic book series aimed at girls by a single author, by the Guinness Book of World Records, as announced by publisher Shueisha Inc, with 59.4 million print copies published. Making it one of the best-selling manga series of […]

Spider-Man &#038 Wolverine Manga In Viz Media June 2023 Solicits

Spider-Man & Wolverine Manga In Viz Media June 2023 Solicits

Viz Media is to publish Japanese Marvel comic books in English for the North American market, how well will they do at selling coals to Newcastle? Here are the Viz Media June 2023 solicits and solicitations. WOLVERINE SNIKT GN VIZ MEDIA LLC APR232088 (W) Tsutomu Nihei, Tsutomu Nihei (CA) Tsutomu Nihei In 2003, fresh off […]

Viz Media To Publish US/Japan Horror Manga Anthology With Junji Ito

Viz Media To Publish US/Japan Horror Manga Anthology With Junji Ito

Viz Media is to publish a new horror anthology of six stories by manga creators from both Japan and the USA.  Betwixt will be published in the autumn and will contain cover art and a forward from horror manga master Junji Ito. Creators include Ryo Hanada, Aki Shimizu, Shima Shinya, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Leslie […]

Pixar Turning Red 4*Town Turned Into Manga in Viz April 2023 Solicits

Pixar Turning Red 4*Town Turned Into Manga in Viz April 2023 Solicits

Founded in 1986, Viz Media is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company based in San Francisco, California and is the second-largest manga publisher in the USA. They also publish  SuBLime as an imprint for yaoi titles. And in their April 2023 solicits and solicitations, they lead with a spinoff from Disney/Pixar's Turning Red […]

Viz Media Launch Sui Ishidas Choujin X in February 2023 Solicits

Viz Media Launch Sui Ishida's Choujin X in February 2023 Solicits

Founded in 1986, Viz Media is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company based in San Francisco, California and is the second-largest manga publisher in the USA. And in February, they will be launching Sui Ishida's Choujin X and also putting out a Free Comic Book Day edition in May. Viz Media also […]