Tag Archive | "Manga"

Interview With the Vampire goes Graphic – again

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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Publisher’s Weekly announces that Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire novel is to go graphic, with a new adaptation from manga publisher Yen Press, who also did the graphic adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s incredibly popular vampire novel Twilight. I should really say Rice’s novel is going graphic again, as Interview, along with the Vampire Lestat [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: 2001 Nights

Friday, April 29, 2011

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2001 Nights by Yukinobu Hoshino Viz Media In three volumes containing 19 short stories Yukinobu Hoshino tells an epic tale of mankind’s glorious journey to the stars. Taking its title and themes from The Arabian Nights (short, interconnected story structure) and Kubrick & Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (pacing, grand scope and visual iconography) 2001 [...]

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Tonight is Manga Night!!!

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Don’t forget, otaku of Britain, tonight is a new Manga Night across the Forbidden Planet International stores – start times vary slightly from city to city so check your local branch for details (branches Facebook pages here, contact details here) and have fun!!! Previous manga nights have been a blast so make sure not to [...]

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More Manga Night fun!

Friday, March 4, 2011

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Our manga nights across our various stores have gone down very well, so we thought hey, let’s have some more! The next one will be on Monday 7th of March in the early evening – exact times vary depending on the store, so check with your local branch (you can find them on Facebook here [...]

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One Piece stamps for Japan

Monday, February 7, 2011

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Helen McCarthy reports that the mail service in Japan will be issuing a series of colourful stamps featuring Eiichiro Oda’s hugely popular manga One Piece, coming in March. (tip of the hat to Peter Stanbury for the link)

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More Manga Night fun in February!

Friday, January 28, 2011

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Attention otaku! We’re planning another of our fab Manga Nights across the FPI stores to follow up the fun we had with the ones we ran last year. There will be manga a-plenty, special offers, quizzes and of course we want to see you cosplayers out in force! The next Manga Night will take place [...]

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Telling Tales – a manga fairy tale anthology

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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Telling Tales by Svetlana Chmakova, Emma Vieceli, Joanna Zhou, Irina Richards, Rebecca Burgess, Marubelle Sinclaire, Sonia Leong, Faye Yong, Fehed Said, Nana Li. Sweatdrop Studios Sweatdrop is the UK Manga publishing collective whose work I covered quite a while ago. And whilst I still have a fear of manga (too much of it, my knowledge [...]

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Korea – As Viewed By 12 Creators

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Korea – As Viewed By 12 Creators Fanfare – Ponent Mon Like the volume before it (Japan as viewed by 17 creators), this book on Korea exists as an idea – to look at a country famous for it’s comic traditions using the best of native and European comic artists – 6 Korean and 6 [...]

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Manga in Hong Kong

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

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The Qube has a short report featuring some of the manga artists involved in the recent one day Comic World event held in Hong Kong: Exclusive look at Magna event Comic World from Sony TheQube on Vimeo.

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Manga Night expanded!

Monday, November 8, 2010

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Remember last week we brought you news of our Manga Night in Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast and Hanley FPIs? Great news for otaku around the country, more of our branches will now be taking part. In addition to Belfast, Edinburgh, Dublin and Hanley our stores in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Middlesborough, Sheffield, Manchester, Cardiff, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and our [...]

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Manga nights in Edinburgh, Belfast, Hanley and Dublin

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Attention otaku! Grab your diaries and circle this date: Monday the 22nd of November. The Edinburgh (40-41 Southbridge), Hanley (48-52 Stafford Street), Belfast (52-54 Ann Street) and Dublin (5-6 Crampton Quay) Forbidden Planet Internationals will be hosting Manga Nights from 6 to 7pm those evenings, with fun for all, quizzes, cosplaying (with a prize for [...]

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The Summit Of The Gods – “Because It’s There”

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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The Summit Of The Gods Volume 1 By Yumemakura Baku and Jirô Taniguchi Fanfare / Ponent Mon I’ve written before about how Manga scares me. Not because it’s unreadable (far from it), not because there’s nothing good (far, far from it) but because there’s simply so much of it and I often don’t know where to [...]

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Manga night tonight in FP Glasgow!

Monday, October 11, 2010

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The Glasgow Forbidden Planet International (handily adjacent to Queen Street station and the Buchanan Street Underground station) is having a fun Manga Night this evening from 6 to 8pm with cosplaying, quizzes, special offers and more; from the description: “Everything instore will have a 20% discount, and there are great prizes for the best-dressed, and [...]

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Black Blizzard – Tatsumi’s hard-boiled masterpiece…

Monday, October 4, 2010

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Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi Drawn & Quarterly Black Blizzard has done so much more to convince me of the man’s genius than the flawed A Drifting Life ever did. I found myself reading Black Blizzard and suddenly getting it. This is why Tatsumi is spoken of in such reverential terms, this is why he’s [...]

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SMASH hit! Dr Comics reports on the 2010 Sydney Manga & Anime Show

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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One of our good Twitter chums from the Land Down Under, Michael Hill – aka Doctor Comics (yes, he does actually have a doctorate) – was at the recent SMASH manga event in Sydney, Australia, and he’s been kind enough to tell us a bit about it and share some pics from the bash (photos [...]

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