Tag Archive | "Manga"

Manga Jiman competition

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Once again those very nice people at the Japanese Embassy in London are holding the Manga Jiman competition, which is open to any UK residents over the age of fourteen, with a brilliant first prize of a trip to Japan. It seems to have become a bit of an annual fixture on the UK comics [...]

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Can you guess what’s inside the box?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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The Box Man by Imiri Sakabashira Drawn & Quarterly Drawn & Quarterly continue with their mission to bring the work of Japan’s greatest Gekiga-kas to a wider audience (Gekiga being Japanese for “dramatic pictures”, a term first used by Yoshihiro Tatsumi to distinguish them from Manga’s “irresponsible pictures“). I’ve previously looked at Red Snow and [...]

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Airbender trailer

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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There’s a new Japanese trailer out for the live action movie of the cult anime Avatar: the Last Airbender, which is due to hit cinemas later this sumer (via Den of Geek):

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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It’s Thursday and as we head towards a bank holiday weekend and the always unpredictable weather that entails it’s nice to know we have some audio options to sit in and listen to if the rains come down; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: [...]

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Red Snow – wonderful Gekiga

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata Drawn & Quarterly Red Snow isn’t modern Manga, it’s Gekiga (literal translation “dramatic pictures“), a movement in Japanese comics that began in the 50s as a reaction to the “whimsical pictures” of Manga and attempted to portray more serious and dramatic themes. Like many readers what I know about Gekiga [...]

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Twilight Graphic Novel selling quite well apparently, despite that lettering..

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume 1 by Stephanie Meyer. Art and Adaptation by Young Kim. Yen Press Yep, it’s a big seller with terrible lettering: That seems to be the story doing the rounds right now about the first volume of Twilight The Graphic Novel by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim. A print run of [...]

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FP Transmissions: talking manga

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Our colleagues in the NYC Forbidden Planet have been posting up some interesting videos recently, including this one featuring two of their otaku, Emma Larson and Lindsay Johnson,  discussing recent manga releases. We’re not re-posting this video just because it has lovely girls in cat ears, there was none of that, it was right out. [...]

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Talking To Strangers

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Talking to Strangers Written by Fehed Said; Illustrated by Sonia Leong, Nana Li, Wing Yun Man, Chloe Citrine and Faye Yong. Sweatdrop Studios This is a collection of short Manga all written by Fehed Said, whose last book The Clarence Principle was thoroughly enjoyed by Katherine back here. Talking To Strangers is themed around some [...]

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Fantagraphics to publish manga

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Dirk at Journalista confirms that Fantagraphics, one of the homes of quality comics publishing in our book, is to publish a manga line (although I suppose since Fanta used to publish Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo you could say they’ve published a manga series before). From Dirk’s post on Journalista: “For the past four years or [...]

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More Moore teenage girl Manga – now with teen Gaiman

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Okay, we showed you the Alan Moore as Manga schoolgirl strip by Ryusuke Hamamoto at the end of last year. But it seems there’s more to come, with a special teenage manga girl appearance by ….. unruly hair, black leather jacket ….. yep, that’s Neil Gaiman: (via Comic Alliance and Neil Gaiman’s Twitter)

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Faye Yong drawing The Merchant of Venice

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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There’s more video goodness from SelfMadeHero, (following the Johnny Cash video we mentioned yesterday); this time its the sparkly Faye Yong showing how to draw the Merchant of Venice for the Manga Shakespeare series (reviewed here by Richard), compressing 50 minutes of drawing into just a few moments. There’s something almost mesmerising about watching her [...]

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From our continental correspondent – comics in crisis: BD sales part II

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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This piece continues my review (see yesterday’s post) of Xavier Guilbert’s analysis of sales figures in French comics for 2009, as published in the French comics magazine Du9.  In this part, Guilbert looks at the role of manga in the French market, and at the success stories of 2009. When you walk around in comic [...]

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Otaku – Manga Day at Southend Libraries

Friday, January 8, 2010

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Here’s some fun for all otaku in and around Southend – next Saturday (January 16th) is Manga Day at the Southend Libraries, running from 10am to 4pm, with anime screening, Japanese language basics, art workshops, sushi lessons, a quiz and, of course, cosplaying.  Check here for more details of events and how to get hold [...]

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You’ve never seen Alan Moore looking like this before…

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Oh yes, Alan Moore as manga schoolgirl. The images are from a new Alan Moore fan-book manga (dojinshi) by Ryusuke Hamamoto. Best bit? Probably the Alan Moore schoolgirl opening her locker and finding Glycon, the Roman hand puppet god that Moore took as his own personal god following his “coming out” as a magician. This [...]

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BAM manga festival

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Paul Fisher, a library development officer in the London borough of Bexley, tells us that a group of otaku – the Bexley Manga Network – are planning a festival of anime and manga for February, with plans for manga workshops, a ninja school, cosplay (of course!), screenings of classic anime at the nearby Cineworld and [...]

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