Surfing Amazon’s listing can make one feel like an archaeologist as people pour through the advance listings to see what trade collections are coming from the various publishers. ICv2 did some spelunking and came up with a number of books based on Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on a Cliff By the Sea, which outperformed The Dark…
Apparently, Japanese audiences are more interested in the works of Hayao Miyazaki than Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The Dark Knight is performing under expectations in Japan with just $8.7 million in box office receipts after three weeks based on figures at Filmjunk.com. Compare that with the $93.2 million Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff has earned…
Marvel Comics announced a deal with Japan’s Madhouse that will have their core super-heroes reimagined for Japanese audiences. Originally designed as animated fare, the long-range plans call for the Marvel Japanese Universe to be found on mobile devices and comic books. Essentially, the heroes will experience new origins taking into account Japanese culture and society. …
In today’s brand-new episode of White Viper, by Erin Holroyd, Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin, we learn the secret origin of Ta Moa, his training in Japan and his first job on his own. Was he able to fulfill the hopes and dreams of his father? Was his training successful? And why doesn’t he live…
Attention, true believers! Next month’s issue of manga magazine Shonen Jump will feature the premiere of Stan Lee and Hioryuki Takei’s Ultimo, which was announced back in April during New York Comic Con. While the series is old news for readers in Japan (the issue has already been out for a few months over there),…
After a pretty unambiguously down second season, the NBC show Heroes is looking to get the magic back from its debut season that marked it as the network’s most important show. In an interview with the New York Times, Heroes creator Tim Kring gave some insights into what’s to come, as well as reflecting back…
NPR ran a feature on All Things Considered, the daily news program, about the solid sales of foreign graphic novels in the United States. One interesting note was that foreign novels don’t sell, but comics do. That seems to indicate comics readers are a bit more cultured than the general public, doesn’t it? A few…
Manga publisher Viz Media will be looking to take on new projects, and even possibly some non-Manga content, according to ICv2. In a Q&A with Marc Weidenbaum and Eric Searleman, editor in chief and vice president respectively, ICv2 finds out more detail about these changes, and how they tie into Viz’s announced talent search at…
Tonoharu: Part One By Lars Martinson Pliant Press/Top Shelf, 2008, $19.95 This is another one of those books where it would be dangerous to assume too much, but it’s so tempting to do so. Martinson is a young American cartoonist who “lived and worked in southern Japan as an English teacher for three years.” The…
Put down your Wiimotes, folks. A variety of online retailers, including Amazon and RightStuf, have started accepting orders for The Legend of Zelda manga. This is great news for fans of the popular Nintendo character. For several years, the series has only been in Japan and acclaimed for keeping faithful to the games while explaining…
In works of fiction, I always appreciate stories that know exactly what they want to be and strive toward that identity. In other words, some books are best served by not aspiring to great pretensions. In the case of Tonoharu: Part One (Pliant Press, $19.95) I have to eat my words, as it’s a book…
The news of Mike Carey writing a fantasy/horror comic set in Japan sounded too good to be true, and when Crossing Midnight debuted more than a year ago it struggled to live up to that promise. Carey created a deep and supernatural world to backdrop his story of mystery: Two twins, Toshi and Kai, were…
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