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I don’t usually buy comic books strictly for their cover art, but I made an exception for these two, for hopefully obvious reasons. Apart from Marvel’s series of

I’m amazed not only by the technological development of Turkish company Letvision, but by the reality of a fanciful fictional concept originated within Japanese animation being developed into

Alden Thomas, AnimeNation’s former graphic designer, and the designer behind AN Entertainment’s Risky/Safety, Miami Guns, and Haré+Guu DVDs, has published his first illustrated children’s book, along with writer

Creator Masume Yoshimoto’s breakout hit manga series Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear is a distinctly Japanese story steeped in Japanese culture and practically necessitating a measure of Japanese

British actor Kenny Baker, best known as the actor behind the Star Wars franchise’s robot character R2-D2, passed away today at the age of 81 following a lengthy

Question: Do animes really care that much about diversity and “equal representation” like they do in the American media or is anime just content to use whichever characters

Is it just my limited exposure to Tsutomi Nihei’s Blame, or does the story just really not make any comprehensible sense at all?

Just in case anyone is curious about my experience at last weekend’s Glass City Con VI, this is my convention report. I’ve deliberately excluded some details, but they’re

The first episode of Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars aired on the 7th. The first episode of Qualidea Code aired two days later.

Toledo, Ohio’s annual Glass City Con has invited me to return this year as a guest presenter. This year I’ll be hosting four audio-visual lecture panels: Defining the

Stranger Comics has launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell an exclusive advance variant edition of the first issue of its American comic book adaptation of the unpublished Hideyuki

Regrettably, I don’t live in the UK, so I won’t be able to see this theatrical re-release, although I did see the film theatrically in 1986. I’m pretty

Yesterday at Megacon in Orlando I had the opportunity to briefly meet Ryo Horikawa, the voice actor behind Dragon Ball’s Vegeta. He was especially friendly, and the limited

53-year-old Eisner award winning comic artist Darwyn Cooke passed away this morning due to cancer. Donations in memoriam may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society and Hero