Kate Dacey was the Senior Manga Editor at PopCultureShock through December, 2008. She no longer writes for the site, but can still be found at Good Comics for Kids and as an occasional contributor to Precocious Curmudgeon. She counts Phoenix, The Red Star, and Tokyo Bablyon among her all-time favorite comics.
Deux Press, the yaoi imprint of Aurora Publishing, has picked up the title Cigarette Kisses by Nase Yamato. Originally, Boysenberry Books, the yaoi imprint of Broccoli Books, was to release this title. However, with Broccoli Books shutting down, the title will be dropped from their list. Lucky for all of the Nase Yamato fans, Deux [...]
The gang answers that time-honored question, “Which manga character are you?”
Broccoli International USA, Inc. will be having a final warehouse sale to liquidate inventory.
Date: December 12, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 3:00pm – 7:00pm PST
Location:
1728 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
TEL: 310-815-0604
Information about the warehouse sale is available on the Broccoli Books production blog:
www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-121208/
www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-list-of-products/
San Francisco, CA (November XX, 2008) —Canada-based publisher UDON Entertainment partners with online media distribution giant, Crunchyroll, to release manga and comics based on highly recognizable Capcom video game properties through the extremely popular weekly digital manga and mega comic digest UDON COMBO! Initial game-based offerings included in 100+page digest will be UDON’s full [...]
When one of our favorite OEL publishers holds a sale, well, we thought that was let people worth knowing about! Here’s the scoop:
Oni Press is pleased to announce a holiday exclusive through their website at www.onipress.com.
ALL VOLUME 1 GRAPHIC NOVELS REDUCED 15-25%
FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $30
AND WHAT MAKES A BETTER GIFT THAN THE [...]
We were all a-Twitter about this before Viz was… Nonetheless, it’s a testament to just how big a part of American culture anime and manga have become that Naruto ranked higher than Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie, and American Idol on Yahoo’s most-searched list. –KD
San Francisco, CA, December 4, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), [...]
Pink Tentacle, unofficial chronicler of all things cute, weird, or cool, has a fun photo essay that should appeal to trainspotters and manga maniacs alike. The piece features over one dozen pictures of Japanese trains decorated with beloved anime and manga characters, from Anpanman and Doreamon to Cyborg-009 and, naturally, Pikachu. It’s enough to make [...]
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