Apparently the end of August has been designated as catch up week, at least in the land of comics and DVDs. Over the next few days, you have the opportunity to jump into a number of critically acclaimed series, contained in trade collections or DVD sets . We lay them all out for you, plus:…
Poking through the stack of manga to be reviewed, earlier this week, I noticed several books featuring characters with wings of one kind or another. Quick to sense a theme, I dragged them together, and here they are: Koi Cupid, Vol. 1 By Mia Ikumi Broccoli, April 2008, $9.99 Koi Cupid is an all-ages series…
Red Colored Elegy By Seiichi Hayashi Drawn & Quarterly, July 2008, $24.95 [[[Red Colored Elegy]]] is like no other manga you’ve ever seen, a blast of pop art- and film-inspired storytelling from 1971 that was hugely influential to a generation of Japanese youth but has never been published in English until now. It’s like the…
It’s another one of those weeks when I have to shoo the kids away; this time, Manga Friday looks at three books about sex. (This is all fairly mainstream stuff, not hentai and without any tentacles to be seen. But there are still naked body parts doing their thing, however tastefully.) What we have this…
As anyone who follows the Twitter feeds, Facebook profiles and various other online extensions of comic creators has probably noticed today, the newest meme circulating through the comics scene is Face Your Manga — a website that allows you to create your own "manga" avatar. As Michael Pinto points out over on Fanboy.com, the art…
This time around I have a volume two, a volume three, and a volume four – all in series that I’ve read at least some of the earlier books. Let’s see if I can still remember what went before – since manga often don’t have “who the heck are these people and what are they…
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),…
Dabel Bros. Publishing recently announced plans to adapt bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter novels as manga-style comics, targeting a 2009 release for the adaptations of the first two books in the series, Night Pleasures and Night Embrace. Joshua Hale Fialkov (Elk’s Run, Cyblade) will script the adaptations, with Claudia Campos providing the art. From the…
This week we’ll be looking at three books with main characters who look like one thing, but are something else. Nephilim, Vol. 1 By Anna Hanamaki Aurora, May 2008, $10.95 On a continent with the unlikely name of Elwestland, two political powers – with the is-it-quitting-time-on-Friday-already? names of “The Empire” and “The Federation” – are…
We at ComicMix didn’t get to too much manga news coming out of San Diego, if only because of the explosion of happenings and announcements coming out of the convention center. The folks at ComiPress come through in spades, compiling a thorough listing of manga news. Read up to your heart’s content right here.
It’s unofficially been Blues & Jazz week here in my reviews – and, if you’re wondering how Erotic Comics fit in there, you don’t know what the word “Jazz” means. So, for Manga Friday, here’s the first book in a series that retells the life of blues legend Robert Johnson from a very different perspective….
The electronic future of comics moves apace with the announcement that some manga titles will be distributed on Nintendo’s Wii videogame system. At first, it looks like this will only be available in Japan, but it may develop further. The companies, Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan, have formed a joint venture with a local software…
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