So here's a cool thing! To celebrate The Louvre (the renowned Museum in France), the Louvre and a French Publisher co-published a series of graphic ...

[caption id="attachment_4740" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The first issue of Shonen Jump in North America."][/caption] I like Viz a lot and so this totally pains me to say, ...

[caption id="attachment_7406" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Students from Carlton University at the Manga Wall we donated from The Beguiling. Photo from here. "][/caption] The time has really, really flown ...

"It was going to be an adventure action story starring attractive superheroes. But that is when 9-11 and the war broke out, and that made ...

On Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi: "I don't really care for sports, and yet, this manga isriveting! This is about a high school baseball team. It has love ...

Do you realize we live in an era of manga publication where we got a pre-war manga collection by a master creator that mostly no ...

As a reprise to our totes-fun-times from last years, Deb Aoki, David Brothers, Patachu, Eva Volin, and myself will preside over a panel charmingly entitled: THE ...

Tekkonkinkreet Screenwriter Anthony Weintraub alerted me to the amazing fact that Taiyo Matsumoto is auctioning off an original piece of Tekkon Kinkreet artwork, in support ...

Early Yoshihiro Tatsumi! More cool stuff coming later. - Chris

TANK TANKURO: PERWAR WORKS by GAJO SAKAMOTO Japanese Manga Classic Masterpiece! Roots of Astro Boy! The Pioneering Robot Manga from Pre-World War II Japan. COVER DESIGN BY: CHRIS WARE Language: English $29.99. ...

"One of the things I most hate to see on manga-related forums are comments like, “I’m interested in this series, but I don’t know if ...

Censoring Manga for Fun and Profit Featuring Christopher Butcher from The Beguiling Wed Feb 23, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. @ Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College ...

Hi there! My name is Christopher Butcher and in addition to running this fine blog, I'm also the Director of the 2011 Toronto Comic Arts ...

So, surprising no one (I guess) I am heading back to Tokyo today for a business trip with as much 'pleasure' as I can cram ...

To my mind, there hasn't been a worse publisher launch in the last 5 years than that of Kodansha USA. I realize that this is a ...

[caption id="attachment_5897" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Cover Detail from the September 2010 issue of Japanese Gay Men's Magazine "Badi", a special spotlight issue on Gengoroh Tagame. Art ...

Update: An English translation of Satoshi Kon's final words--a note he wrote to the public in his final days whilst dying of cancer--has been posted. ...

Drawn & Quarterly has acquired North American English rights to two graphic novel memoirs,Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths and NonNonB?, by one of Japan's most acclaimed ...

So in the interest of nibbling at the hand that feeds me, I wanted to talk a little bit about TWIN SPICA, the new manga ...

An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the ...

(via) So, here's the deal: CMX wasn't, at its inception, a particularly well-run company. There are a lot of excuses out there, but bluntly DC didn't know ...

http://www.mangablog.net/ Top entry by Jake Forbes right now. An open-letter style blog post about the future of the manga industry, and why Japanese Publishers, American Publishers, ...

All of the most carefully embargoed secrets can be lain to waste by one unexpected early listing on Amazon.com, and that's exactly what happened today. ...

http://www.tcj.com/manga/journalista-reputation-destroying-extra-four-years-work Very, very good news. Edit: Much longer post (by me) here: http://comics212.net/2010/03/09/matt-thorn-to-edit-curate-new-manga-line-for-fantagraphics/ - Chris

Oh Nick Simmons. I kind of wanted to post a spirited defense of you using scans of Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, but I ...