“Sometimes creating an entire galaxy begins with a single stitch.” So begins the narration at a spectacular new exhibit in New York City about Star Wars costumes and artifacts. Coinciding with the release of the new movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the show Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume:…
AniMiniCon SoHo is a three day-event taking place July 30-Aug 1 for local New York City area fans of anime, manga and Japanese culture. It’s happening at a unique downtown space, the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in Manhattan (138 Sullivan Street, New York, NY www.sohodigart.com) The Gallery has 16 hi-resolution 40″ computer monitors on…
The SOHO Gallery for Digital Art in New York City will be hosting a celebration the publication of the new issue of World War 3 Illustrated, with live performances by contributors at 138 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 this Friday, February 26, from 8pm-11 pm. Art Quality prints of the Artists’ work will be…
Sigourney Weaver received a standing ovation at the Comic-Con 2009 panel “Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture,” moderated by Entertainment Weekly. The “ass-kicking” icon shared the dais with Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliette on Lost), Zoe Saldana (Uhura in the new Star Trek film) and, in an unannounced appearance, Eliza Dushku (Echo on Dollhouse.) Weaver…
Johnny Depp made an unannounced appearance at the 3D Disney panel at Comic-Con 2009, generating a roar of approval from the crowd. Depp will be playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s upcoming film, Alice in Wonderland, due out in March 2010. Burton himself made his Comic-Con debut as a panel guest. The panel also…
A new CG-animated version of the classic manga and anime, “Astro Boy,” created by the “god of manga,” Osamu Tezuka in the 1950’s, debuted clips at Comic-Con 2009. This seminal work about a heroic boy robot was a generation’s first exposure to the Japanese art form when it aired in the U.S. in the 60’s,…
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, died on Sunday, July 19, of metastatic melanoma. Though his loss is undoubtedly felt acutely in literary circles, it is also felt among the thousands of students to whom he taught English and Creative Writing, first at McKee Vocational High School in Staten Island, NY and then…
Welcome to the second article in our series, where American animation and comics and fans of Japanese anime and manga can connect with each other through pairs of titles that share tone, themes or character types in common. Today’s pairing is about series that have been influenced by classic works of fine arts and literature,…
And speaking of dating oneself… believe it or not, that was the first Dilbert. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the comic strip by Scott Adams, featuring the office cubicle misadventures of engineering geek Dilbert, his wacky co-workers and bizarre furry friends. The occasion has been marked by the release of Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years…
The original CSI series has a habit of setting episodes in the worlds of various subcultures — they’ve had cases about furries, vampires and the BDSM scene. Surprisingly, it’s taken until the ninth season for them to get around to solving a crime at a science fiction convention. Tune in tonight to CBS at 9…
Have you ever overheard (or gotten caught in the middle of) an argument between a certain type of fan of mainstream English-language comics and a similar type of fan of Japanese anime and manga? Many of us know a Comic Book Guy who dismisses all anime and manga as nothing more than giant robot fights…
At New York Comic Con this weekend, Del Rey Manga announced the latest information on their two new manga-style retellings of Marvel Comics properties, Wolverine and The X-Men. Both books will be all-new stories with original art — consider them a "radical re-mix" of the well-known comics characters. Wolverine: Prodigal Son, with story by Antony…
