Aimee Steinberger Talks About Japan Ai
Aimee Major Steingerger’s manga-influenced travel journal, Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventure in Japan , uses drawings, comics and journal-like entries to recount a trip she took to Japan along with two friends. The book has just been released by Go! Comi.
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Faust Editor Katsushi Ota Speaks
In August, 2008, Del Rey Manga will publish Faust , a four year old Japanese literary anthology with a circulation of 65,000 featuring excerpts from light novels, manga and stories by cutting edge Japanese writers and mangaka, in the U.S.
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Bandai Acquires CODE GEASS Licenses
Anime distributor and part-time publisher Bandai Entertainment has announced that they have the anime, manga, and light novel licenses for CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion .
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Big Fun At First New York Anime Fest
The first annual New York Anime Festival, held at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan December 7-9, started slowly, but NYAF officials estimated that about 15,000 attendees visited the Javits Center for the inaugural event.
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Takehiko Inoue Unveils Mural at New Kinokuniya
Famed mangaka Takehiko Inoue (creator of basketball manga Slam Dunk and the Samurai manga Vagabond ) visited New York City to help celebrate the opening of the new Kinokuniya bookstore
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NYAF’s John McGeary Talks Anime
PWCW talks with the show manager of the New York Anime Fest about the intersection of anime and manga and what will make NYAF different from other anime conventions.
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Lat's Malaysian Memories
The popular Malaysian cartoonist Lat is gaining an American following with a series of graphic novels from First Second.
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Tezuka’s Black Jack Returns
Vertical Inc. will publish Black Jack, legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s popular series about a genius surgeon, in fall 2008.
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ADV Manga Wakes Up
Despite layoffs, cutbacks and long delays between some volume releases, ADV Manga has managed to persevere and regain some of its footing in the marketplace this past summer.
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New Manga From CMX, Flex Comics
DC Comics' manga imprint, CMX, announced new titles from Japanese publisher MediaWorks, and the first titles from Flex Comics, the Japanese manga and digital comics venture DC announced in June
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DMP to Co-Brand Japanese Publishers
L. A. manga publisher DMP has entered into a deal with three Japanese publishers under which all titles licensed from the three by DMP will carry the original Japanese publisher's logo and DMP’s logo.
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For the Love of Tezuka; Vertical To Publish MW
In October, Vertical will continue its program of publishing classic manga with the release of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in an omnibus edition collecting the entire multivolume work.
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Y.Kids: Educational Manga from Korea
Korean publisher YoungJin.com has launched Ykids, a line of original, English-language educational manga aimed at the U.S. market.
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Kodansha Launches Second Manga Contest
Kodansha, one of the largest publishers in Japan, has decided to launch another manga contest. The Morning International Manga Competition, presented by Kodansha’s manga magazine Weekly Morning , is soliciting submissions from artists around the world.
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