40th Anniversary Of Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump And 5th Anniversary Of SHONEN JUMP Magazine Commemorated With Special Collector's Edition Of Top Manga Anthology's Articles And New Hardcover Presentations Of Several Most-Loved Manga Series San Francisco, CA, July 10, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced several exciting new releases to coincide with the 40th... Read Full Story
Storyboards Online announced today that it has joined forces with ShanghaiPop to simultaneously launch the first of four issues of an American-style manga mini-series, MechTechs, and its coordinating virtual world in November. Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) July 14, 2008 -- Storyboards... Read Full Story
(PRLEAP.COM) Ft. Lauderdale, FL — July 14, 2008 — Storyboards Online announced today that it has joined forces with ShanghaiPop to simultaneously launch the first of four issues of an American-style manga mini-series, MechTechs, and its coordinating virtual world in November. MechTechs is an international synergy conceived by an American, Storyboards Online CEO Scott Ownbey, written by a Scotsman, Gordon Rennie, produced in the Philippines by Storyboards Online artists and programmed in... Read Full Story
There's been a fair amount of original English language (OEL) manga published in the last few years, but the rarer case is American authors collaborating with Japanese manga artists. Joining Princess Ai and Ultimo in this exclusive club is Kasumi, the debut creation from San Jose-based author Surt Lim and Yokohama manga-ka Hirofumi Sugimoto, due out next week from Del Rey Manga. Kasumi is a shojo manga fantasy about a girl who enters an exclusive private school, where she endures bullying... Read Full Story
BUFFALO, N.Y., July 14, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Bat-Signal is soaring high above Gotham City ... and New Era is there with new Batman gear! In June, New Era Cap Co., the leading headwear designer and manufacturer, signed a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Comics, to launch a collection of 59FIFTYs fitted caps featuring the vast array of DC Comics heroes and villains. The DC Comics collection... Read Full Story
By HIROSHI YAMAZAKI Tokyo, Japan — The newly released Apple iPhone is making a hit all over Asia. But in Japan – where the mobile phone was introduced Friday, selling out the same day – a special feature is being stressed. Among its many capabilities, the iPhone can display popular Japanese “manga,” or comics. At the Digital Publishing Fair held in Tokyo as part of the Tokyo International Book Fair on Sunday, software company Celsys was demonstrating the phone’s prowess with manga. With a... Read Full Story
Midtown Comics in New York City will host a comic book signing event with acclaimed comic book creator Steve Niles, famous for the comic book series 30 Days of Night. Mr. Niles, on a hot streak, is currently the author of two DC Comics titles, Batman: Gotham After Midnight and Simon Dark. Continuing the Hollywood trend adapting comic books to film, 30 Days of Night was released in movie theaters last year, directed by David Slade, starring Josh Hartnett. 30 Days of Night is now available as a... Read Full Story
Mark Pickavance If your anticipation for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight wasn’t enough, the Gotham Knight disc is designed to give temporary relief while maintaining your bat-habit.It’s overall direction is by Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series), and was produced by three well known anime studios (Production I.G., Studio 4C, and Madhouse), under his control. The result is six connected Batman stories, one each by noted anime directors Shojiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi... Read Full Story
HAYAO MIYAZAKI is one of those names that anime fans either know already or ought to know to even consider themselves to be anime fans in the first place. His films with Studio Ghibli have earned widespread praise for the vivid fantasy worlds and characters that are often depicted. Those of you who read the column last week know that there's a Miyazaki film festival, "Four Classic Films by Hayao Miyazaki," playing at the Honolulu Academy of Arts' Doris Duke Theatre. "My Neighbor Totoro... Read Full Story
This month, the 13th Annual Vince Koehler Film Festival will feature a sampling of the best of Japanese Anime (animation) in English with our program: "Go Anime! Bambi Eyes and Robot Dreams" Kansas City, MO - infoZine - Vince Koehler was a respected member for many years of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. He hosted both a KC area cable TV show and wrote a column for the Johnson's County Gazette, both entitled "Entertainment Spectrum." Everyone can enjoy the July 26 program... Read Full Story
