Comics Worth Reading » Coming Up: Manga Due June 2010 (or Later)

Nyankoi Book 1Buy this book Nyankoi (CMX, APR10 0292, $9.99, due out July) is yet another cat manga, but this one’s set apart by it’s “working out a curse” and shape-shifting elements. A boy hates cats, but he turns into…

Comics Worth Reading » Free Comic Book Day, Manga Style: Brooklyn Cherry Blossom Festival

The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day, which makes it May 1st this year. On that day, participating comic book shops give away free comics to visitors. (Policies may vary.) Traditionally, there hasn’t been a lot of…

Comics Worth Reading » Aurora Pulls Online Manga From Netcomics

Netcomics, the online manga pay site, has posted a notice that reads, in part: In response to a request from our provider Aurora Publishing, we will be dropping all series from Aurora publishing, including those under Deux Press and Luv…

Comics Worth Reading » Tokyopop’s Summer Intern Tour

Tokyopop has advertised a unique internship — they’re looking for students to spend the summer, from the end of May to Labor Day, traveling with them “to promote TOKYOPOP, our stories, and our characters.” They’re looking for those who can…

Comics Worth Reading » Announcing the April MMF: Mushishi

An open letter from Ed Sizemore: The April Manga Moveable Feast (MMF) will focus on Mushishi, published by Del Rey. This is a wonderful manga about Ginko, a wandering master of primitive life forms called mushi. He travels Japan…

Comics Worth Reading » More Thoughts on Free Online Manga Distribution

Following up on my post pondering what users get from scanlation sites and many of the issues surrounding posting and reading free manga online, there have been some thought-provoking statements around the web in the last couple of days. Simon…

Comics Worth Reading » Legal Doesn’t Matter: More on Scanlation Sites

For the last month or so, spinning out of the Nick Simmons plagiarism mess, various smart people online have been bemoaning scanlation sites like One Manga and MangaFox. (Probably the two best known. I know some will say I shouldn’t…

Comics Worth Reading » Coming Up: Manga Due in May 2010

Brody’s GhostBuy this book Mark Crilley returns with Brody’s Ghost (Dark Horse, MAR10 0018, $6.99), a short (96 pages) manga, part one of six. Brody is going to learn from a samurai how to unlock his powers, aided by a…

Comics Worth Reading » Fantagraphics Manga Line Launches With Moto Hagio Book

Fantagraphics has announced that they will launch a manga imprint in September of this year. Their first book will be A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, a collection of works by Moto Hagio, the shojo pioneer. Her work is historic…

Comics Worth Reading » Tokyopop Announces Neko Ramen

Neko RamenOrder this book Tokyopop held a webinar this evening to announce the upcoming Neko Ramen, a four-koma (comic strip) manga about a cat who acts like an old man and runs a ramen shop. They’ve created an interactive website…

Comics Worth Reading » Nick Simmons Releases Statement, Takes No Responsibility

Nick Simmons, artist of Incarnate, which contains panels copied from Bleach and other manga, has released the following statement via a representative: “Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my…

Comics Worth Reading » Plagiarism, Scanlations, and Copies: Nick Simmons’ Incarnate Rips Off Bleach

Today’s schadenfreude opportunity: Nick Simmons, writer/artist of Incarnate from Radical Comics (and son of KISS member Gene Simmons, which might account for some of the glee in watching his downfall), has been caught copying various panels and dialogue from popular…
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