News and reviews for the discerning manga fan
Paging David Welsh — yet another of his license requests has just been granted! On Friday, Yen Press announced that it will be publishing Mari Yamazaki’s award-winning comedy Thermae Romae. The story focuses on a Roman architect who makes a fortuitous discovery: the tunnel beneath his favorite spa leads to present-day Japan, providing him a [...]
VIZ Media made a big announcement at New York Comic-Con today: they are discontinuing the print edition of Shonen Jump magazine and replacing it with an online edition. The new digital anthology will be called Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, and will debut on January 30, 2012. Readers will be able to subscribe to a full [...]
VIZ may not have a big presence at East Coast conventions, but they always put on a big show at San Diego Comic-Con with a fancy booth, special guests, and newsworthy licensing announcements. This year promises more of the same, with booth giveaways and a panel featuring Hisashi Sasaki, the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump. [...]
At the request of Vertical, Inc., I am posting this press release regarding one of their licensing announcements from New York Comic-Con, Usamaru Furuya’s No Longer Human. Vertical is actively negotiating the rights to this property with its Japanese publisher, Shinchosa, but has not finalized the deal just yet. Here’s what Vertical had to say: [...]
The weekend’s biggest news: everybody’s going digital. On Friday, Dark Horse announced a new online initiative, to be rolled out in January 2011. Dark Horse will host its own storefront, rather than relying on a third party such as ComiXology, and will make the comics available for a variety of platforms and web-browsing devices. Individual [...]
Walking the show floor at the Javits Center yesterday, I was painfully aware of how much NYCC’s identity as a comics convention is being eroded. Attendance seems as robust as ever, with legions of cosplayers mobbing the convention center, but more space was given over to gaming than in previous years; the most popular booths [...]
The lowdown on Fanfare, Fantagraphics, Vertical, and more!
Posting will be light over the next few days, as I’m headed down to Washington, DC to participate in the annual American Library Association conference. (And for the record, no, I’m not a librarian, nor do I play one on TV, the radio, or the internet — I just like to talk about books!) I’ll [...]
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Back in the 1990s, Matt Thorn labored hard to make Keiko Nishi a household name among American manga … [Read More...]
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Since joining the Good Comics for Kids team in 2008, I've reviewed a variety of comics, graphic novels, and manga for younger … [Read More...]
Though Vertical has published two series by Keiko Takemiya, the Magnificent 49ers' work remains largely unavailable in … [Read More...]
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