This week's edition of the New York Times Graphic Books list has been posted and for the second week in a row, the final volume of Fruits Basket by Natsuki ... Read More

The event may be over, but the photos and stories are still coming out from San Diego Comic-Con International 2009. I was there for the entire weekend and shot a ton ... Read More

The carpets are rolled up, the displays are taken down and the fans, celebs and comic pros are all headed home. Yep, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009 is a done ... Read More

After three and a half days of fun, Sunday at San Diego Comic-Con International 2009 is one of the quieter days of the show, and a time for the young ... Read More

On Friday morning, while the rest of the hardcore anime fans were in line for the Disney Animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con International to see Hayao Miyazaki, I hung ... Read More

Generally speaking, Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con International 2009 is considered the biggie - the day when a lot of the big celebs sightings happen and major panels are scheduled. But ... Read More

Technically, Friday is "Star Wars Day" at San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, but as far as I'm concerned, it's anime and manga day at the San Diego Convention Center, with ... Read More

While Wednesday night was when fans got their first glimpse at the many wonders of the Exhibit Hall, Thursday is when San Diego Comic-Con International 2009 really kicks into gear ... Read More

It’s here at last – San Diego Comic-Con International 2009! It all kicks off with Preview Night tonight at 5:30 pm ‘til 9:00 pm, then gets into high gear ... Read More

While the running controversy at San Diego Comic-Con is about how (gasp!) girls are invading the hallowed ground of comics and sci-fi fandom, a recent announcement from Digital Manga Publishing ... Read More

It's that time of year again, when comics, manga, movies, sci-fi, TV and pop culture fanatics, movie stars, comics creators and animators from all over the U.S. and around the ... Read More

The news hit this week that Yen Press is developing a graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire novels, the Twilight trilogy. Now the July 24, 2009 issue of ... Read More

San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner and the guest list just keeps getting bigger and better, as more manga artists are announced as guests at this yearly comics/pop-culture/sci-fi ... Read More

This week's edition of the New York Times Graphic Books list is out, and for the first time in a long time, over half of the top 10 is comprised ... Read More

From Entertainment Weekly's EW.com "Shelf Life" blog, comes a bit of news that has got the book publishing world, the movie world and the manga world buzzing: Yen Press has ... Read More

Gardena, California-based Digital Manga Publishing is lately doing their level best to live up to their name. First they launched eManga, their online manga rent-to-own program. Next, they made Vampire ... Read More

Now that the manga has made it to U.S. shores, it seems only right that the film version of Naoki Urasawa's action/suspense series 20th Century Boys (a.k.a. Nijusseiki Shōnen) is ... Read More

Yen Press' blog coyly hinted at a new and noteworthy addition to the Yen Plus lineup on July 8. Then today, the big reveal was made: the new series is ... Read More

VIZ Media confirmed today that their special guests at San Diego Comic-Con 2009 will be Japanese manga creator Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King) and American comics legend Stan Lee (Spiderman, The ... Read More

First TokyoPop got on the mobile manga tip. Next Digital Manga Publishing put their hat in the ring, with the addition of Vampire Hunter D for the iPhone. Now Agoura ... Read More

San Francisco, California-based Last Gasp Publishing recently released their latest catalog and one pleasant surprise was the announcement that they'll be releasing a new hardcover edition of Town of Evening ... Read More

After ending Shojo Beat, VIZ is showing strong signs that they haven't given up on magazines -- they're just opting to move their publishing online. Now that their first online ... Read More

While it was fascinating to see Q&A's with manga artists like Yun Kouga, Yasuhiro Nightow and Takashi Okazaki, quite possibly the most intriguing panel at Anime Expo 2009 was Friday's ... Read More

It's been a while in the making, but the anime versions of Nana and Honey and Clover are now available to U.S. viewers exclusively through iTunes. Just to make it extra ... Read More

After four straight weeks in the #1 spot, two blockbuster books finally pushed Bleach Volume 27 by Tite Kubo off the top of the heap of New York Times Graphic ... Read More

Last weekend, over 44,000 fans came from places near and far to check out four days of fun at Anime Expo 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Now that ... Read More

At their Friday afternoon panel at Anime Expo, the VIZ Media marketing bunch (a.k.a. Mark Chang and Candice Uyloan) kicked things off with a very big announcement for manga fans. ... Read More

It's Day 4 of Anime Expo, and the costumed fans and American otaku who looked so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on Thursday are starting to show signs of con-fatigue (and maybe ... Read More

Happy Birthday U.S.A.! While the rest of the general population is off grilling, heading to the beach or poppin’ open a beer, there are some of us (who are ... Read More

It’s Friday morning at Anime Expo 2009, so that means it’s time for CMX Manga’s industry panel. The CMX crew, including Jim Chadwick, Asako Suzuki and Larry Berry came ... Read More

Last night, the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Anime (SPJA), the organization that puts on Anime Expo, announced the winners of their annual industry awards. Not too many surprises ... Read More

It’s Day Two of Anime Expo, and while yesterday was full of noteworthy events, today is the day when the three-day holiday weekend officially kicks into gear. There’s the much-anticipated ... Read More

I’ve been talking about it for weeks – but now it’s finally time for Anime Expo to begin! As you read this, thousands of anime, manga, gaming and Japanese pop ... Read More