Tag Archive | "Manga"

The art of the background artist

Monday, May 7, 2012

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Over on Audrey Kawasaki’s LiveJournal she extolls an often overlooked yet painstaking, time-consuming aspect of creating animation for film – the background artist’s work. While the moving characters in the foreground take most of our attention (as indeed they are meant to, after all) the background details are often just that, a background, which is [...]

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Soulless – The Manga

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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At San Diego Comic Con in 2010, it was announced that the Gail Carriger novel Soulless would be turned into a manga, with Rem, who previously has worked on Tokyopop’s Vampire Kisses, looking after the artistic duties. The book was published in chapters on the online manga magazine Yen+plus and now it’s being collected by [...]

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Manga Jiman 2011 winners

Monday, February 13, 2012

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The Embassy of Japan in the UK has once more held it’s now almost traditional Manga Jiman competition (always great to see anyone encouraging new comics talent) and the winners were announced recently. The top prize (which includes a flight to Japan) went to Elena Vitagliano for her The Deep Needs Train, garnering much praise [...]

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Manga Jiman competition and exhibition

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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The Embassy of Japan and partners have again organised the now traditional annual Manga Jiman competition for new manga comics talent in the UK. The award ceremony is due to be held this Friday in the Japanese Embassy in London, where the final selection will be made. Competing for the top prize (a return trip [...]

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Tatsumi

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Tatsumi Directed by Eric Khoo Zhao Wei Films/The Match Factory Singaporean director and former comic creator Eric Khoo debuted his homage to legendary Japanese comics creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last spring, an animated feature which draws largely on Tatsumi’s much-acclaimed A Drifting Life (published in English by the good folks [...]

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Sun Fish Moon Fish

Sunday, December 11, 2011

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Sun Fish Moon Fish By Morag Lewis Sweatdrop Studios When the Royal Family are murdered in this latest Manga from the UK’s Sweatdrop Studios, suspicion immediately falls upon Court Mage Anciarin, who doesn’t help matters for himself by immediately disappearing following the deaths. But everyone familiar with this type of tale will realise that in [...]

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Director’s Commentary – the Ax Man Cometh

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Another slightly different entry for you today in our occassional Director’s Commentary series, where we ask creators to talk us through one of their projects. Normally we cover an upcoming or newly released work, but today we talk to the Scottish Comics Samurai, Sean Michael Wilson, a Scots comics scribe living and working in the [...]

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Manga in Fiji

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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Good chum of the blog and Aussie comics, manga and anime expert Michael Hill travelled to Fiji in October at the behest of the Japanese Embassy to take part in a Japanese animation festival, which was part of a Japanese cultural week in the island nation, and he’s written a report for Comics Grid. As [...]

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A return to Summit of the Gods. Epic only starts to describe it….

Friday, August 26, 2011

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The Summit Of The Gods Volume 2 By Yumemakura Baku and Jirô Taniguchi Fanfare / Ponent Mon Again, to quote the famous words of George Herbert Leigh Mallory – “Because It’s There“. This was his response to why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest. And although it’s Mallory and Irvine’s famous disappearance in June 1924 that [...]

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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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